Flint corn

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This year I grew some flint corn. The variety was Cascade Ruby Gold. I did about a 4 ft x 10ft bed of it, and the net yield was about 8.4 lb of dry corn. This is plenty productive! It equates to about 160 bu/acre. But yield wasn’t the goalpost. It was fundamentally exciting to know that I can grow flint corn in Canada. Made scrumptious polenta. Next up is johnnycakes.

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Jason Geeeee

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Made some cornbread today per Carol Deppe’s recipe. It is absolutely fantastic. Shown here smeared with garlic confit.

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One reason to grow flint corn is simply how beautiful it is!
I grow and eat a lot of corn. Mostly as cornbread and polenta.
Do you have any pics of your corn growing?

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Thom Bri wrote:One reason to grow flint corn is simply how beautiful it is!
I grow and eat a lot of corn. Mostly as cornbread and polenta.
Do you have any pics of your corn growing?

Yeah I think so. It ended up getting quite a bit taller than this pic. The biggest plants were about 11 feet tall, and one had two big red ears.

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