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The listing, Double Red Sweet Corn - Wow! has ended.

Here's a rare chance to try out a wonderful new/old variety of corn!

Double Red Sweet Corn is a recently-developed blend of heirlooms, bred for nutrition and multiple uses by Alan Kapular of Peace Seeds, who has dedicated his life to the protection of plant biodiversity. (A very interesting guy - read more here: http://www.corvallisadvocate.com/2012/0830-alan-kapuler/)

100 days. This intensely red sweet corn is great for corn-on-the-cob or can be dried and ground to make traditional corn bread. High-yielding, open-pollinated variety adapted to organic culture, producing full ears on stocky, red-streaked stalks. The red comes from antioxidant anthocyanins - so it's super-healthy eating!

Note that in the sweet "milk" stage the corn is still white, just beginning to develop red tips on the kernels. When fully mature (ready to dry and grind) it is a deep purple-red.

The seed was organically grown and is, of course, non-GMO.

This auction is for 20 seeds - happy bidding!

Questions & Comments

F&W never have seen red corn except in indian corn mix

Jun 1st, 2014 at 7:25:50 PM PDT by

ty...i think the reason you haven't seen it is that most of us think of indian corn as purely decorative - and the multicolored kinds are better decorations! however: it
s called "indian corn" because that's what the native Americans were growing - and eating - when the colonists showed up. The deeply colored corn varieties, like other purple/orange veggies, are more nutritious than the plain old yellow stuff too.
What Alan Kapular did was breed a healthy dark red corn with sweet corn - 'cause that's what folks want: sweet corn on the cob...AND you can have it both ways with one corn patch (if you plant enough): sweet corn on the cob and then cornmeal...win/win ;-)

Jun 1st, 2014 at 9:09:20 PM PDT by

my stepfather use to grow this when I was young....

Jun 2nd, 2014 at 12:06:21 PM PDT by

Interesting! Was his corn sweet, or did he use it for cornmeal? The folks at Peace Seeds say that they're responsible for adding the 'sweet' to the nutritious old strain...hmmm...

Jun 2nd, 2014 at 12:54:04 PM PDT by

I grow and eat gemstone corn. Yellow sweet corn is the most genetically modified food on the planet. What bothers me the most is that they have cross bred it with the milk part of the dandelion(which is the only poisoning part of the plant) to reap a better harvest. This acts as a natural insecticide when insects bite it; it kills them. So, I don't eat anything with yellow "sweet corn" in it. I, however, would like to grow this red corn to add variety to my diet of gemstone corn.

Jun 4th, 2014 at 8:04:59 AM PDT by

Yeah - and the other huge problem with GMO corn is that the wind carries the pollen to neighboring fields & contaminates the gene pool...they've found GMO genetic material in corn grown in the center of Mexico - where GMOs are illegal - a 1000 miles south of the border - scary!
But i'm sure the folks at Peace Seeds, where i got this corn, are very careful to keep GMOs out of there seed stock.

Jun 4th, 2014 at 10:34:06 AM PDT by

Yeah, that's a shame. They mess with nature toooooooo much!

Jun 4th, 2014 at 11:01:34 AM PDT by

so the question is: where is the line between "a shame" and "a crime"?...just wondering....

Jun 4th, 2014 at 12:21:05 PM PDT by

Double Red Sweet Corn - Wow! is in the Home & Garden | Gardening | Gardening Seeds & Bulbs category