I Have a Garden

The corn is looking great! This particular seed was given to me by a friend. Peppermint corn! Swirls of red and white. Quite lovely. It will be interesting to see what the fresh ears look like. And cooking it! I'd never heard of such. Will it make pink creamed corn..lol?Depending on how well it makes, would be interesting to try selling at the farmers market. I will try to post a photo when it does come in.

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Scribbles · 36-40, F

Please do post a photo. I'd love to see what the swirls on the peppermint corn look like.

I have seen a variety of colored corns. including rainbow corn. Swirls sound like something new though. cool!

sunni · 61-69, F

@Scribbles I may have a photo of the ears before I shelled them! I will look for that. Ha..in my thousands of photos. I'm a grandmama...what can I say!?

Scribbles · 36-40, F

@sunni Thank you 😁

sunni · 61-69, F

Look! Here it is. Not as hard to find as I thought!

Scribbles · 36-40, F

@sunni Whoa! The kernels really do look like peppermint striped candies. That is very very cool looking. Thank you for digging through your photo files to find it.

sunni · 61-69, F

I separated the perfectly swirled ones and planted only those. Now we must patiently wait. I will ask my husband when it will be ready. He knows all that sort of stuff. I may try to get a photo of the stalks themselves. Lovely. Almost blue-green.

sunni · 61-69, F

You're most welcome, scribbles. Just a bit of fun in my small world. 🌞

Scribbles · 36-40, F

@sunni One of my favorite things is gardening and interesting plants. It's my kind of fun.

At first I wondered if the swirl was a form of KRS (Kernal red streak) in a white variety of corn. But from the photo it doesn't look like KRS at all. From what google could tell me, that kind of candy stripe look is from messing with a gene on one of the 10 chromosomes that corn has. Pretty interesting stuff.

I wonder if ground up, the cornmeal and corn tortillas made with it would look pink 🤔

sunni · 61-69, F

I just though of pink creamed corn! Went and asked husb. He said well sure! He also said it won't be long until ready to pick...yayyy!
Yes the friend that gave it to me said it turned out that way due to fiddling around genetically. I will be so excited to see the fresh ears!!