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Gardening

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Denninmi

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Sat Jan 7, 2012, 11:15 AM Jan 2012

Do you have a favorite sweet corn? [View all]

I have a few, and I'm pretty loyal to them, because I haven't found any better types yet in each respective class:

Sh2 variety: Burpee's Sun and Stars bicolor -- great big, ultra sweet ears with good corn flavor, too. The down side is its a bugger to germinate. My backup is the old stardard Illini Xtra Sweet, the first real Sh2 corn and still among the best, IMHO.


SE - Burpee's Ruby Queen - -the red sweet corn. I started growing it for the color as a novelty, but decided its just a great corn all around. Unfortunately, last year, deer got into it and stripped most of it the day before I was going to harvest and put it in the freezer.

White -- I've got 2 white corns I like, Mirai White (which impresses me more than the other Mirai strains) a synergistic hybrid, and another Burpee variety, Sugar Pearls, which is an SE Corn.

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