Description
Zea mays
Candy Mountain is an early maturing yellow sweet corn that does well in cool short seasons. It’s yet another favorite from Ken Fisher of Belgrade, Montana who started making selections from the hybrid ‘Kandy Korn’ back in the late 1960’s and was sharing what became Candy Mountain Super Sweet corn in the late 1970’s. It was an instant favorite of Bill McDorman who listed it in his catalog for 28 years. It germinates reliably in cooler soils, matures early, and produces well-filled ears even when heat is limited. It has a rich sweetness and with a more full, complex corn flavor than many modern super sweets- and the sweetness holds well even a few days after picking. The plants were bred to be short but we found height to vary while many displayed beautiful tinges of a dark red color that made the plants a sight to behold. Seeds grown at Flytree Farm in Northfield, VT, and seed stock came from John Austin who lives a few miles from where Ken Fisher developed this corn.