Baby blue popcorn (Zea mays) is a miniature heirloom variety of corn. It’s quite hard to find any information about it online, so I’m sharing the little I know here to help you get orientated around this little gem. Like all corn, it’s a heavy feeder, so likes lots of compost and water. And even […]
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The beauty of heirlooms
by Hannah Moloney | May 26, 2014 | Gardening
There is a lot of beauty in food, especially in the heirloom (aka heritage) department. These days we expect carrots to be orange, tomatoes to be red and bananas and corn to be yellow. But once upon a time it was normal for all of these to be most colours of the rainbow. Due to […]