A local moonshiner – and the last known grower of Jimmy Red corn – had just died, and the family no longer wanted to grow corn for whiskey distilling. They gave the ears to the shop owner ...

The researchers think the crackling noises occur because of tiny fractures from the corn plant stretching, breaking and growing. The time-lapse video documents the noises, along with the plant ...

The three sisters are a reference to the Indigenous way of growing corn ... people cultivated corn from a wild grass called teosinte, which means mother of corn in the Nahuatl language.

“We don’t need moisture meters or anything like that,” he explains. “We plant everything deep, for instance, the corn goes 18 inches deep, depending on where the seeds will find moisture,” relying on ...

If you are a fan of eating sweet corn, you may want to take a stab at growing a patch of sweet corn in a corner of your vegetable garden if you have enough space. Sweet corn is a warm-season ...

Sweet corn harvested fresh from the home garden and cooked soon afterward is one of life’s great treats. If you have never had that experience, now is the time to plant sweet corn in the garden.