A few years ago we mixed around 25 varieties of corn and planted them in patches.
Then they planted again the following year. Then I skipped the year.
This spring we planted again with a giant patch.
This is what we have harvested so far:
The yield is not impressive, and most cobs are small.
But what we planted this year was better than this year.
Interestingly, the yellow, white and purple kernels seem to have beaten all the other colors in the original mix.
I think we’ll get about 40-50 pounds of corn from a 600′ corn row.
This may be expected as this corn is planted in an acid, sandy pasture and then run by simply sprinkling Steve’s mix first. The idea was to first breed for survival. It survived and grew without further irrigation or fertilization, but serious corn farmers will scoff at these yields.
The landraces could be stable and strong from this point onwards, so I’ll replant it and see if it improves. But I have no high hopes.
It will be interesting to see how it works in well-fed, rich, restricted soil. Given its ability to provide harvests with almost attention, it will be engrossing.
Here’s the video for the corn patch:
