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- Cascade Ruby-Gold Flint Corn
Cascade Ruby-Gold Flint Corn
Short, fast-maturing plants are meant to produce a crop of staple grain almost anywhere, in spite of difficult conditions. Makes beautiful deep-gold cornmeal with red flecks, and fantastic flavor. Wonderful for polenta. Carol Deppe bred this to be her own staple food in the Pacific Northwest's difficult summers. She writes:" I bred this corn to be the ultimate survival crop, the variety and crop you would choose if you could have only one variety to get you through good times and bad." Well, that sounds like now........ Plants 5 ½ feet high with 1 to 3 ears per stalk depending upon spacing and soil fertility. Good husk coverage for protection against birds and worms. Very vigorous. Does well even in downright cold summers. Not as high-yielding as later, taller corns, but extremely dependable. This is an OSSI-pledged open source variety. You can read more about it in Carols wonderful book, The Resilient Gardener. 80 days. WE DO NOT EXPECT TO GET THIS UNTIL FEBRUARY. WE WILL SHIP YOUR ORDER WHEN IT ARRIVES. 60 seeds