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Corn & Maize Seed
Details Early Gem is a NZ heirloom corn that Richard continues to select for the number of cobs per plant, the size of the cobs, and the earliest plants that produce ripe seed, grows to about 1.7m tall.
Botanical name Zea Mays
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents approx 50
Grower name Richard Watson
Corn - Kascade Korn - 85NS26
Details The original kascade korn plants commenced life here in Scargill, in the early 80s.They grow well in our climate and under our organic regime. They are open pollinated, offering the advantage of you being able to reproduce your own seed for subsequent seasons. They are not as sweet as the super sweet types that people have got used to, but are delicious and very sustaining.
Botanical name Zea Mays
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 50 seeds
Grower name Nev&Sue Sinclair
Corn - Painted Mountain 69RT2A
Details A Native Indian decorative short season flour corn, bred from 70 American native corn varieties. Tolerant to heat, drought, high winds and cold nights. Makes superb flour, hominy and parched corn. Can be eaten fresh when young, Grows over 2 metres.
Botanical name Zea Mays
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents approx 50
Grower name Richard Tew
Maize - Sola - 79NS76A
Details The maize Sola is the name given to it by Nev, is was derived from an old maize that was commercially available back in the early 1970s when he first began growing it. Both Sue and Nev have a long history together, as plant and grower. It has changed during that lengthy association and now looks as if the sun is shining out of it. They use it principally in ground form for making what we regard as a very sustaining porridge (cooked with milk); rich and filling. Customers have also used it to create polenta and it seems to perform well used this way.
Although the seed from which the original crop was grown from was possibly a hybrid (even back then) it is no longer so, and reliably produces consistent crops.
Botanical name Zea mays
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 50
Grower name Nev and Sue Sinclair
Corn - Glass Gem - 116MT93
Details USA farmer Carl Barnes, isolated types of corn from his Native American ancestors, he then saved and replanted seeds from particularly colourful cobs. A neighbouring farmer then started growing larger crops corn developed new strains with more vibrant colours and patterns. Can be used as a popping corn, as well eaten as a sweet corn when in the 'milk' stage of development.
Botanical name Zea Mays
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 50
Grower name Minette Tonoli
Details Gifted to Richard from a long grower. Billard maize produces mainly a double row cob of larger kennels on a long cob. Plants grow to about 2m tall and generally produce one cob per plant, some plants can produce two but these cobs tend to be smaller. For grinding the size of these kennels can be too large for some grinders
Botanical name Zea mays
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 50
Grower name Richard watson
Details Strawberry Popcorn sets 1.5m stalks, each bearing 2 to 4 ears packed with glossy red kernels on 4-6 cm long cobs. Grow it just as you would sweet corn,
Botanical name Zea Mays
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 50 seeds
Grower name Minette Tonoli
Corn - Blue Hopi - 162RG101
Details
Blue corn also known as Hopi maize, Yoeme Blue, Tarahumara Maiz Azul, and Rio Grande Blue, ground it's used to make blue tortilla chips, tortillas, corn soup and cornbread. Hopi Blue grows 1.7m tall
Can be eaten as sweet corn when picked young.
Botanical name Zea mays
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents 50
Grower name Rick Ginders
Details This grex cross Richard Watson used Early Gem, Golden, Bantam and as many F1 hybrids as he could find, also added was another grex mix given to him by Peter Clarke who had mixed up many varieties years earlier. The idea of this cross breeding was to aim for a corn that had the 'sweet' of the modern F1's and more substance or starch of that of the heirlooms. Over 200 plants are used to achieve as much cross pollination as possible. The photo shows a selection of cobs from the 2021 crop
Botanical name Zea Mays
Price per packet $4.00
Packet contents approx 100
Grower name Richard Watson
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