Corn Silver Queen Hybrid - Burpee Seeds
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Zea mays
- Wide adaptability
- Proven tops for production
- Flavour worth waiting for
- 8-9" long ears
The most well known name in sweet corn.
Silver Queen is the popular late-season variety with tenderness and flavor worth waiting for. Large ears, 8 to 9" long, have 14-16 rows of white kernels, and plants grow to 8 ft. Proven tops for productivity, flavor and wide adaptability, its ready to harvest in 92 days. Garden-fresh sweet corn is summers greatest pleasure. Plant corn in blocks at least four rows wide for cross-pollination and well-filled ears.
Approx. 75 seeds
- Ears of corn are ready to harvest about 17-20 days after the silks appear. The kernels should be firm. Open an ear and pierce a kernel with your fingernail. If the liquid is watery, the corn is not ripe yet. It should be milky. If it is creamy, it is overripe and will not taste as sweet.
- Firmly grip the ear and twist downward to harvest. Take care not to break the plant when harvesting the first ear, or the second ear will not develop. Most corn produces two ears.
- Store unhusked corn in the fridge and consume as soon as possible. Sh2 and SE varieties keep the longest in the fridge, up to one week.
- Corn freezes well after blanching and may also be canned using a pressure cooker. Immature ears may be pickled.
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