GROWING EARLY CORN

hello friends in today's episode we look at two early corn varieties that are easy to grow and produce corn in a very short time the first variety of corn that you're looking at today is the Painted Hills corn and we're going to be sowing these seeds in these seed starting cells and you can direct so these corn seeds as well I am just starting them in these cells because I don't have a lot of space in the garden and this will buy me some time so these are the corn seeds this corn variety is not a sweet corn it's actually a little on the bland side or the not so sweet side and I actually enjoy eating this kind of corn so you can see here the seedlings have emerged and we're gonna be transplanting these seedlings after they have grown to about this size that you see here now we are planting these in a whiskey barrel container and remember that with corn you need to plant at least four or five plants together very close to each other because you will get the best pollination when you plant at least four or five plants and you can see here the corn plant grows pretty quickly and in no time you will see that it will start producing flowers both the male and the female flowers and this variety of corn grows to about 3 to 4 feet and most early corn actually just grow to 3 to 4 feet they don't grow very tall and that's why they are more like dwarf corn varieties so what you can see on the top are the male flowers which have the pollen and on the bottom you can see the stalks the corn stalks with the silks which is the female part of the plant and when pollination occurs the corn kernels are formed and this is why you need multiple corn plants around each other to maximize the number of kernels and this corn that you see here is a mature corn ready for harvest and when you open it up you see all these beautiful colored kernels and that's why it gets this name called the Painted Hills corn again this corn is not on the sweet side it's a delicious corn variety that you will enjoy growing as well as eating the next variety we're going to be looking at is the early Sun glow hybrid variety now this is another early corn variety that grows within about two months and in this case we're going to be direct sowing these seeds in the ground and either ways it doesn't really make any difference whether you direct sow the seeds or start them in containers corn is a pretty hardy plant it's gonna grow well as long as the temperatures are not too cold and here you can see the kernels being formed and in the early corn varieties or the dwarf corn varieties you will see that you dont get a lot of cobs but it does give you corn very quickly within about one to two months and that's the beauty of growing this corn the early sunglow hybrid is a sweet corn variety so it does taste sweet and it really depends on preference some people like sweet corn some people like corn that's not so sweet so depending on your taste you can grow either of these corn varieties so again these are dwarf corn varieties they just grow up to like 3 to 4 feet and they will produce about 2 to 3 corn kernels per plant so it's a lot less than what you would expect in a full-sized corn plant but the full size plants also take a long time to grow so this is a good trade-off if you want quick yielding corn that can be planted late in the season these are two good corn varieties to plant so in case you did not plant your corn plants early you can still plant this early con variety late in the season to still get corn towards the end of summer or even towards fall so it's a great technique to use in your garden so there we have it folks that was our episode on growing these two early corn varieties I hope you try growing these two corn varieties at home and let me know if you have any other favorite corn varieties that you like to grow we'll see you again soon happy gardening