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Plant in blocks instead. If you are planting sweet corn, either plant it 250 feet away from the Indian corn or plant a variety that won’t bloom at the same time. You don’t want pollen from ...
Glass gem corn. Glass Gem Corn is a Native American heirloom flint corn, or maize. It is a variety of what people call "Indian corn" and is considered unique due to its rainbow coloring. [1] [2] The corn variety was created in the 1980s by ancestral corn breeder, Carl "White Eagle" Barnes, an Oklahoma native of half Cherokee, half Scotch-Irish ...
Maize Includes male and female flowers Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Monocots Clade: Commelinids Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Subfamily: Panicoideae Genus: Zea Species: Z. mays Binomial name Zea mays L. Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American and Australian English, is a ...
Flint corn. Flint corn ( Zea mays var. indurata; also known as Indian corn or sometimes calico corn) is a variant of maize, the same species as common corn. [1] Because each kernel has a hard outer layer to protect the soft endosperm, it is likened to being hard as flint, hence the name. [2] The six major types of corn are dent corn, flint corn ...
A Native American tribe in North Dakota will soon grow lettuce in a giant greenhouse complex that when fully completed will be among the country's largest, enabling the tribe to grow much of its ...
The answer to how long to boil ears of corn is a general rule of three to five minutes. You want to shuck the corn and remove the husks first, however. The fresher the corn, the shorter amount of ...
Hominy. Dried (uncooked form of) hominy. US quarter and Mexican one-peso coins pictured for scale. Hominy is a food produced from dried maize (corn) kernels that have been treated with an alkali, in a process called nixtamalization ( nextamalli is the Nahuatl word for "hominy"). "Lye hominy" is a type of hominy made with lye.
Center-pivot irrigation (sometimes called central pivot irrigation ), also called water-wheel and circle irrigation, is a method of crop irrigation in which equipment rotates around a pivot and crops are watered with sprinklers. [1] [2] A circular area centered on the pivot is irrigated, often creating a circular pattern in crops when viewed ...