Bloody Butcher Dent Corn
Price: $3.99
SKU: 3140141The kernels are striped red or dark red on pink to red cobs. An occasional white ear may appear. 'Bloody Butcher' can be used as roasting or frying corn when young, but it is historically used for flour, corn meal, or animal feed. It is good flavored.
Sow seeds about 1½ to 2½ inch deep, 3 to 4 inches apart, in rows spaced 24 to 30 inches apart. Thin to 6 to 12 inches apart.
Harvest Information:
Pick the ears for dry grain or decoration when the husks are dry and the kernels are hard enough that you cannot make a dent in them with your fingernail. Many people pick the ears too early when kernels are still soft. If this is done they shrivel up and shrink and their beauty is destroyed. They cannot finish maturing once they have been picked.
Even though the ears look dry, there remains moisture deep within the cob. If you were to enclose them in a box, the moisture would cause them to sour and mold. You may let them dry longer on the plants if neither weather nor predators are damaging them. Otherwise hang them up or lay them out in the open until they are completely dry inside
Customer Reviews:
By Joe Flarity on February 20, 2018
Six generations raised on cornbread and homemade buttermilk swear this is the best tasting corn. Until it burned down, we had our own mill powered by a Model T engine.<br><br>This corn will volunteer and a single stalk will produce full ears. The experts say that can't happen with domesticated corn seed. This year I decided to try something new and keep Victory looking for something better, if such a thing exists.
By Nathan on November 1, 2012
I am writing to let those of you at Victory Seed Company know that although I have not bought any Bloody Butcher seed from you in a while, I have been saving seed and growing it for years now. Each year I save back some seed, blanch cobs to eat fresh, and dry the rest to be ground for grits that I eat in winter months cooked with black pepper and salt. I use your Fried Corn recipe every year during corn season but I stop cooking it when it comes time to add the water. I have fond thoughts of corn season only because I like eating Bloody Butcher. My early August birthday is in the height of corn season so I eat corn on my birthday.
