{"id":1832,"date":"2011-10-02T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T21:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2011-10-02T17:55:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T21:55:51","slug":"heirloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"Heirloom"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past few years I’ve been growing a open-pollinated white corn in our garden. I got the seeds from Sam Taulbee, who called it hillbilly corn. It sounds fancier though to refer to it as a ‘heirloom variety.’<\/p>\n

Despite the drought conditions we had this year, the hillbilly corn did very well.<\/p>\n

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Up in Indiana Where the Tall Corn Grows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This corn grows tall, 12 to 14 feet, and it puts on its ears over my head (and way above Owen’s head.)<\/p>\n

It has a long narrow ear.<\/p>\n

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What Big Ears You Have!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That ear is 8 kernels around and 50 kernels long. Ordinary field corn is 14 or 16 kernels around and 35 to 40 long. And each kernel is huge.<\/p>\n

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A Big Kernel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I don’t do much with this corn. I grind some for corn meal and save some to plant again next year. I just like having it growing in my garden as something pretty to look at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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