Honey Select Sweet Corn
Zea mays 'Honey Select'
Height: 7 feet
Spacing: 12 inches
Sunlight:
Hardiness Zone: (annual)
Group/Class: Triplesweet
Description:
A high yielding and easy to grow triplesweet variety that matures in time for summer BBQs; produces 8" long ears of beautiful yellow kernels; sweet honey taste and tender, perfect for fresh eating, adding to salads, grilling, and freezing
Edible Qualities
Honey Select Sweet Corn is an annual vegetable plant that is typically grown for its edible qualities, although it does have ornamental merits as well. It produces small cobs of yellow long kernels which are typically harvested when mature. The kernels have a sweet taste.
The kernels are most often used in the following ways:
- Eating When Cooked/Prepared
- Cooking
- Canning
- Freezing
Planting & Growing
Honey Select Sweet Corn will grow to be about 7 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 inches. When planted in rows, individual plants should be spaced approximately 12 inches apart. This vegetable plant is an annual, which means that it will grow for one season in your garden and then die after producing a crop. This is a self-pollinating variety, so it doesn't require a second plant nearby to set fruit.
This plant can be integrated into a landscape or flower garden by creative gardeners, but is usually grown in a designated vegetable garden. It should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It may require supplemental watering during periods of drought or extended heat. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in rich soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.
