Planting and eating Indian corn. March 9, 2011. By Barbara Damrosch. ... The seeds of Indian corn, lined up in rows on their cobs, explode with every known color in fanciful combinations.

And do not plant in single rows. Plant in blocks instead. If you are planting sweet corn, ... Almost all Indian corn varieties need 100 to 115 days from planting until harvest.

"Corn, especially here in Nebraska, is synonymous with apple pie," Keen says. "But 'Indian corn' is only ornamental and is sold only around Thanksgiving time.

And do not plant in single rows. Plant in blocks instead. If you are planting sweet corn, ... Almost all Indian corn varieties need 100 to 115 days from planting until harvest.

Just how rapidly corn became the colony’s nutritional anchor can be seen in the 1624-25 Muster, where the reported supplies of “Indian corn” dwarfed those of European grains.

This is the fourth year the Cowboy Indian Alliance partnered with Bold Nebraska to bring dozens of people to the farmland to hand-plant rows of corn. Gathered in a line, each person placed each ...