Corn & Cucurbitaceae

Astronomy Domine Sweet Corn is a very beautiful, multicolored type of sweet corn. The ears have colors in purple, white, red, yellow, and almost black. Most ears are multicolored but some are completely red. The coloring starts already as unripe and gets stronger while ripening. The cobs keep the color after boiling, some color may fade. The plants are around 180-200cm high. Astronomy Domine has a traditional, old-time sweet corn flavor. This variety was bred in ”the Great Basin” in Utah, USA by Joseph Lofthouse. The original seeds of this selection is from a ”landrace” grown by Alan Bishop in South Indiana. 70D. 25seeds/pack

Country Gentleman Sweet Corn is an almost white variety of sweet corn. The corns are irregularly placed on the ears, not in rows. The plants are around 180-200cm high. Country Gentleman has a traditional, old-time sweet corn flavor. Developed around 1890 in the Connecticut River Valley. 70-80D. 30seeds/pack

Maiz Morado is not exactly a sweet corn, as it also has many other uses. It is deliciously eaten as sweet corn though, with its full, sweet, and fresh flavor. In Peru, it is sold dry by the kilo and is used for "chicha morada", and "mazamorra morada", a very popular dessert. The ears are very dark purple, almost black. The plants are around 180-200cm high. 80-110D. 20seeds/pack

Painted Hill Sweet Corn is a beautiful, multicolored type of sweet corn. The ears have colors in brown, pink, purple, white, red, yellow, and blue. The coloring starts already as unripe and gets stronger while ripening. The cobs keep the color after boiling, some color may fade. The plants are around 150-170cm high. Painted Hill has a traditional, old-time sweet corn flavor. Painted Hill is a cross between the flour corn 'Painted Mountain' and the sweet corn 'Luther Hill''. Due to the "sturdy genes" from 'Painted Mountain', Painted Hill also does well in a cooler climate with a shorter season. 70D. 25seeds/pack

Cherokee Long Ear Popcorn is a stunningly beautiful, multicolored type of popcorn. The ears have colors in pink, purple, white, brown, red, yellow, and blue. The coloring tends to lean towards more blue-pink than red-yellow. As fully ripe and dry the ears are shiny, almost sparkling. The plants are around 180-200cm high. Lovely to use for decorations. If popped into popcorn the popcorns are smaller than normal, but the flavor is so much better. Rich, creamy and full! Cherokee Long Ear Popcorn was bred by Carl Barnes in the USA – ”the Man who saved Corn”. 100D. 25seeds/pack

Cochiti Pueblo Popcorn is a stunningly beautiful, multicolored type of popcorn. The ears have colors in red, orange, yellow, brown, and almost black. Most ears are multicolored, but some are completely red, brown, or yellow. As fully ripe and dry the ears are shiny, almost sparkling. The plants are around 200cm high. Lovely to use for decorations. If popped into popcorn the popcorns are smaller than normal, but the flavor is so much better. Rich, creamy and full! 100D. 25seeds/pack

Tom Thumb Popcorn is a very early type of popcorn. The ears are golden-yellow, a bit smaller than other varieties, around 8-10cm long. The plants grow to about 1m and produce 1-2 ears per plant. When popped into popcorn the popcorns are smaller than normal, but the flavor is so much better. Rich, creamy and full! Can be planted tighter together, around 15-20cm apart. 85D. 25seeds/pack

Glass Gem Corn Popcorn is a flint corn. Can be used both for popcorn or be ground into flour, for animal feed, in stews and pots, etc. With its stunningly beautiful looks, it is also perfect to use for decoration. The corns and cobs are larger than the ones of a popcorn variety, around 15cm long cobs. Multicolored in purple, pink, white, blue, yellow, red, and orange. The plants grow to about 200-220cm in height. Bred by Carl Barnes, from different types of ”Native American Corn”. From every square meter grown of this variety, we got 1174grams of clean popcorns. 100D. 25seeds/pack

Earth Tones Dent Corn can be used for flour, animal feed, in pots and stews etc. With its stunningly beautiful looks, it is also perfect to use for decoration. The colors of this corn make it almost 3 dimensional-shimmering, truly stunning! Multicolored ears in purple, pink, white, blue, yellow, red, and orange, with an "earthy-dusty" tone, around 20cm long. The plants grow to about 200-220cm in height. 100D. 25seeds/pack