Comments on: Painted Mountain

By: Scott Terry

Scott Terry — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:02:58 +0000

Thanks for the good info Tom. I didn’t know you had planted it over your way. It cracks me up to think that a corn called “Black Aztec ” can’t take drought. By the name you’d assume otherwise

Hi Kris

Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.

By: Kris in WA

Kris in WA — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:09:14 +0000

Hi…
I just wanted to add my experience in our first year of growing heirloom sweet corn. We purchased our seeds from Baker Creek. We grew the Golden Bantam and Double Standard. Our growing conditions this last season, were less than desireable, for most our crops. We had wetter than normal and much cooler conditions. Out of the two…the Double Standard out yeilded the Golden Bantam. But…the Golden Bantam we did get…well…we were just amazed at the beauty of it. Our overall yeilds were mostlikely low due to our cooler/wet conditions…as the soil was rich, and the plant’s themselves were very healthy looking.

I’m very glad Northern Farmers shared about growing a short and long day corn w/o cross pollination, great reminder. I had read that once before…but forgot all about it.

Thank you Scott for bringing this topic up and allowing other’s to share their experience and knowledge for others to learn.
Kris in WA

By: Northern Farmer

Northern Farmer — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:03:45 +0000

Hey Scott,
I’ve grown Painted Mtn for a few years now and it’ll make it here easy. Got it when it was still just a private seed from an ad in the back of Small Farmer’s Journal. It’s very similar to Mandan Bride, (I think that’s the right name).

Another thing to think about, when planting a short day variety like that is you can have a longer day variety right next to it and won’t have any trouble with cross pollination because they pollinate at different times, that is if they’re planted about the same time. That takes away the problem of having different varieties planted far apart to prevent crossing.

Painted Mtn and similar corns have good drought tolerance, (believe me I know), but Golden Bantam sweet corn and Black Aztec corn didn’t even throw a cob because of the dry conditions. There’s a few other corns that couldn’t take drought either, but I forget right off hand what they were.
Tom

By: Scott Terry

Scott Terry — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:00:04 +0000

Hi Missouri Rev

Heres the catalog request page…

http://rareseeds.com/catalog/

By: Missouri Rev

Missouri Rev — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:27:20 +0000

How do you get one of these catalogs?

By: Scott Terry

Scott Terry — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:21:24 +0000

Hi Ginny

Yes, we should set something up here for people to record yeilds for different heirloom varities. Everyone could compare yeilds and quality, and use it for a little database for choosing varities.

By: Ginny

Ginny — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:37:14 +0000

Funny you should mention Baker Creek Catalog, we got ours and have been spending some fun hours reading and planning. We also will be planting field corn for the first time this coming summer. We have chosen Hopi Blue corn. It will be interesting to compare