Mixed Colors Broom Corn
Price: $3.99
SKU: 3140021The seed heads vary in length from two to three feet in height. Some of the seed varieties included in this mixture can include 'Apache Red', 'Japanese Dwarf', 'Black Seeded', 'Texas Black Amber', 'Tennessee Red', 'Nicaraguan Broom', 'Keply #1 & #2', 'Ramirez South Chile Line', 'Iowa Red', 'Is-3226', 'Hadley Kidd', 'Moyer Sonnen', 'Sattie Museum', 'Moyer Jensen Gold', 'African Sweet Sorghum', 'White Popping Sorghum', 'Hungarian Red', 'Hungarian Black', and many special Hadley varieties.
Broom corn heads can be harvested for brooms or ornamental uses anytime after the seed head develops. Harvesting and drying the seed heads at various stages of development results in varied appearances in the color of the seed. As the plant matures, the seed heads will deepen in color and the seeds will become heavier and shiny. The seed heads can be cut during any stage of development and added as accents to fresh flowers. They are especially pretty with autumn flowers, but can be used in any fresh flower bouquet.
Although commonly called "Broom Corn", Sorghum bicolor is not truly corn. The stalks are similar to corn but they do not produce ears. Seed heads appear from the tops of the plants instead of a tassel.
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.
Customer Reviews:
By Capsicum (Sumner, WA) on January 8, 2026
First time growing sorghum, I don't know anybody who grows it in my area, I recorded 2400 growing degree days this season (as for corn base 50f), fertilized as per field corn at 130 pounds N per acre. These grew 8-12 feet with some irrigation, and 5-8feet as dryland, but seed heads were fairly similar either way. (We hardly get an inch of rain in July and August, but the soil started May at field capacity.)
Seed heads were barely over one foot including the core stalk, maybe enough for making a hand whisk but not long enough for a standard broom. My guineas, muscovy ducks, and chickens all like picking at the seed when I knock over canes, and a few wild birds picked at the standing canes well into winter. I would like to find some commercial Grain sorghum, aka Milo, to try next but the only sources are un-named "deer plot" seed, or 50 pound sacks for large farms.
