Corn Ideas.......

I’m really interested to find out whether you’re able to find see that isn’t hybridized these days. You might try contacting the organic seed alliance to see what they have to say & what they have in their seed banks: http://www.seedalliance.org/.

Since you’re obviously interested in this issues, I recommend reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Delimma, which has quite a lot of information on corn hybridization—history, science, food chain results.

Please let us know what you find.

-- GardenMentor, Seattle, WA (zone 8/9), www.gardenmentors.com & www.gardenhelp.org

Thanks I am going to Chapters on Friday and will pick up this book

-- Living on the level... Central Ontario...1.25 hrs from TO.......Zone 5a

Try seeds of change? Everything there is organic. It might be hard to keep corn from cross pollinating, but they’d be a good place to start.

www.seedsofchange.com

-- southern NH. - smack dab in the middle of 5a and 5b - with lots of shade and full sun, in all the wrong places.

but then hybrid, doesn’t necc mean GMO. My grandfather did some cross pollinating of tomatoes in his day, and he ceratinly wasn’t fooling around on the cellular level, injecting Fish DNA or whatever…

“Clone” – pertaining to wine grapes is really just a clipping that has rooted

-- southern NH. - smack dab in the middle of 5a and 5b - with lots of shade and full sun, in all the wrong places.

Ok I see I was under the understanding that hybrid and Genetically Modified is the same thing. Thansk but I am definitely interested inthe Organic side of Gardening.

-- Living on the level... Central Ontario...1.25 hrs from TO.......Zone 5a

organic – yep me too.

-- southern NH. - smack dab in the middle of 5a and 5b - with lots of shade and full sun, in all the wrong places.

Check out Jungseed.com

Also, I save seed for what I’ve grown (in particular, a japanese hulless popcorn.) So once you’ve gotten your seed you don’t have to keep buying it. It never ceases to amaze me that I can start with a handful of seed and end up with a hundred times what I started out with. It’s like the seeds are saying “we’ll survive no matter how many of us you eat!”

Some of the hybrids don’t re-seed very well, but, the heirlooms should without much trouble. I guess if you hybridize in somewhat un-natural ways, the seeds don’t understand.

-- arborial reconfiguration specialist......Zone out....(USA 5)

Organic can still be hybrid but GMO’s are not allowed in organic production…Hybridization can occur in nature…Its is cross-polinating, athough when hybridized you often loose some good features in attaing better features…Kind of like dog breeding.

I would stick with heirloom organic varieties for the purer seeds especially with corn as much of todays corn has been genetically modified…

Here are a few varieties of heirloom, non-hybrd corn:

Corn Seed

As for the corn borrer I have found that for our small managable garden crops, a few drops of garlic oil at the center of each ear…spray the silk, deters the borrer.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

Garlic is good for everything right!
And it tastes so good!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Haven’t found many things that garlic won’t cure ;)
That same garlic oil I mak DH uses for his coldsores…works like a charm.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20