I have been working on my current garden for the last three seasons. Where I started was bare turf grass on very sandy loam in northern Wisconsin. That means the seasons are short and the conditions are favorable. I have been growing for years in many different climates. With this site I have been trying to focus on a few staple crops and really trying to learn to cultivate to their yield potentials. I have been working to build soil in a ruth stout style garden bed, as I have access to square bales of straw at a decent price.
It goes without saying finding strains and genetics of varieties adapted to where I am regionally and go from there, well that isn't always as easy as it may sound. Which brings me to the plans for next season. I am going to be converting an area appox 20 x 50 for an area to grow a corn guild. That should put me in the 150-250 plant range depending on how dense I am able to plant. The next part of this journey is in the selection of corn to cultivate. I would love to tap into a flint/dent type of corn that can grow tall, and yield decent, with flavor being a factor.
What I have been able to find online has been limited ( glass gem, painted mountain, generic label of "indian corn", jimmy red, bloody butcher, Montana morado, to name a few" Would there be anyone willing to trade seeds for point me in a direction of modestestly priced seeds that might be outside of the few cultiivars I mentioned or perhaps another type they grow closer to the 46th parallel?
Thank you for reading my post, and I look forward to any thoughts of tid-bits added...happy gardening
