Trucker's Favorite Yellow Dent Corn
Price: $2.83
SKU: 31407011Dent Corn
75 to 120 days — 'Trucker's Favorite Yellow' is an old standard dent variety that grow to about eight to ten feet tall, and produce eight to ten inch long ears that have between fourteen and eighteen rows of tender, relatively sweet yellow kernels. Although it can be grown nearly anywhere with a long enough corn growing season, it is particularly well-suited for the Southern United States.
As with most field corn varieties, 'Trucker's Favorite Yellow' is best picked in early milk stage (about 75 days) for eating fresh as roasting or frying corn. Some folks prefer its flavor over 'Trucker's Favorite White'. It can also be left on the stalks to mature and dry for use as animal feed, or ground for corn meal and flour. Each ounce is approximately 150 seeds.
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.
