Corn – Painted Mountain

1903 Zea maize

(Milling, flour, ornamental) 85-90 days dry.

We’re sooo happy to share this Painted Mountain seed with you. The variety has been a long-time favourite of Hope Seeds, but when we saw the work that Lorna McMaster in PEI had done with this beauty, we were stunned. How do you make a beautiful corn so much more beautiful? Several years of selection and seed-saving passion. And possibly, a whole lot of love. Lorna has done wonders to the original variety bred by Dave Christensen. And remember, it had taken him about 36 years to come up with the hardiest, fastest-maturing grain corn in the world!

Bred to handle the windy, cold, and drought conditions that this part of the world offers, Painted Mountain grows where no other corn will. Beautiful, 6″- to 7″-long, thin cobs express a rainbow of colours, making it not only an excellent milling/flour variety for those who make their own corn meal, tortillas, tacos polenta or flour, but also an excellent decorative variety.

Plant in blocks for best pollination.

~100-105 seeds/30g