So the family and I decided to plant some corn this year in our little garden of raised beds along with peppers, tomatoes and lemon cucumbers. Which by the way if anyone needs some lemon cucumbers…which taste exactly like a regular cucumber only they are yellow and round and look, well, like a lemon…let me know because I have more that any four families can use. Anyway, the corn. We decided to plant some sweet corn and Indian corn. Ten of each in a bed. Only after they began to sprout did I learn that we should have planted different varieties in different beds well away from each other to avoid cross pollination. Go figure. I guess this keeps the corn from intermingling and insures you get what you planted and not some hybridized version. We decided the experiment was worth it and let it go. Boy did it go. Lots of rain here and sunshine in between meant it grew like wildfire. What was interesting was we go sweet corn and we got Indian corn but we also got some sweet corn that took on some of the Indian corns coloring. So in the picture you see the Indian corn on the bottom and the sweet corn on the top with a little deep red coloring. We ate that one and it was good but we are drying all of the rest of our Indian corn ears and looking forward to having some around this Fall.  So plant them far apart if you want or if you feel a little like playing Dr. Frankenstein then plant them all together. Who knows what kind of happy accident you’ll end up with.