Sweet Corn 'Blue Jade'

This was an excellent corn for growing in containers. The plants reached heights of just over 3 feet and yielded between 3 to 6 ears per ...Read Moreplant. It is one of the sweetest heirloom corns available.

I noticed a comment from 2009 where they stated "it was bland and not sweet". Sounds like you most likely let it get too old before you harvested it to eat. This is an easy mistake to make with this plant, and probably the most common mistake. The corn becomes harder and the sugar content drops rapidly as it nears full maturity, at which point it is good for seed, but not eating.

I continue growing this variety year after year, and it keeps performing the same. It's a great corn for those with limited amounts of space, but if you have the room, I would highly recommend this variety.

The 'Blue Jade' is mine and my family's favorite corn so far. It's not a super sweet hybrid corn, but an old OP with a good, classic swee...Read Moret corn flavor. The color is absolutely gorgeous and holds up with cooking. This corn is also good for freezing and adds nice color to a dish when mixed with yellow or white corn.

Plants top out at around three feet tall with several small ears per plant. Corn is white and still tasty when immature ripening to steel blue. Color does not come to full intensity until the ear's husk begins to yellow.

This is a unique, fairly fast maturing, trouble free variety that is perfect for cool summer climates that are less adapted to growing long season corn.

I was very excited to find a miniture corn that could be grown in containers and the fact that it was such a striking color was an incred...Read Moreible bonus. (I'm always looking for odd or unusual vegetables.)

I eagerly harvested the first ears for a family get together. Everyone who tried it agreed: The texture was dry and the taste bland and not at all sweet. In the end, I tossed every single ear I harvested into the yard for the squirrels.

Miniature plants bear 3-6 ears of sweet, steel-blue cobs that turn jade-blue when boiled. Plants grow 2-3' tall. One of the only sweet ...Read Morecorns that can grow in containers.