Martian Jewels Sweet Corn Seeds

The husks and cobs have a gorbeous deep color that we enjoyed using as a dye bath and paint, and the corn is as described sweet, though not as sweet as super modern sugar corns, with a hearty enjoyable texture. Made small cobs, but they did fill out enough to enjoy even though we planted this late

Grow this as a novelty, not as your main summer sweet corn. Plants grew alright and were lovely, but the corn itself is a little lackluster, and pollination was not consistent, despite proper planting and plenty of breeze. Also, it’s messy! My hands were stained for a couple days just trying to shuck, cook and eat this corn. That said, the cobs had a distinct milk chocolate flavor, which was really cool…wonder what some cob broth could be used to bake perhaps…? All those anthocyanins wasted though, since the color isn’t in the kernels. It was a fun, aesthetic experience, but I’m going with a more tried and true heirloom next year.

This was a very rewarding first experience growing corn. I would recommend getting a high nitrogen fertilizer. Corn seeds germinated uniformly and well. Plants varied in height, some produced corn some did not get large enough to. Plants are very attractive with green and dark maroon purple features. Corn was smaller but tasted good. I enjoyed both the look of the plant and the edible factor. Best to grow where won’t be affected by strong wind, unless it’s supported. I will grow this again.