Corn Seeds

Corn Seeds for Planting: Sweet, Popcorn, and Colorful Heirloom Varieties

Few crops taste as good fresh from the garden as sweet corn, and this collection goes well beyond it. Our corn seeds include sweet varieties for summer eating, popcorn for movie nights, and heirloom flint and dent types for cornmeal, masa, or fall décor. Both organic and conventional options are available, and each listing notes which is which. Whether you're looking for classic garden seed corn for a backyard patch or something more unusual, you can filter by heirloom status, days to maturity, and open-pollinated type to narrow it down.

Corn Seed Varieties: Sweet, Popping, and Ornamental

For fresh eating, sweet corn choices include the bicolor Who Gets Kissed, Peaches and Cream, Enchanted F1, Ambrosia, and Bi-Licious, plus yellow Golden Bantam 12 and Kandy Korn, and white Silver Queen and Stowell Evergreen. Bodacious is a favorite for its tender, sugary kernels, and Fisher's Earliest and Ashworth suit shorter seasons. Popcorn fans can grow Japanese Hulless Popcorn, Red Strawberry Popcorn, or Miniature Blue Popcorn, and there are heirloom grinding and masa corns like Blue Hopi, Oaxacan Green Dent, Bloody Butcher, and Floriani Red Flint. For pure color, Glass Gem, Indian Corn, and Cherokee Long Ear Small produce ears in jewel-toned kernels that look great on the table, while Japonica Striped Corn has variegated leaves as decorative as the ears. Baby Corn rounds out the range for stir-fries.

Growing Corn from Seed: Plant in Blocks, Not Rows

Corn is wind-pollinated, so how you lay out the bed matters as much as the variety you choose. It’s advised to plant in blocks of at least three to four short rows, since blocks are pollinated far more successfully than one or two long rows, and good pollination is what fills out the kernels. Most of the listings here show 76 to 120 days to maturity, so corn asks for a full, warm season and a well-timed start. The Seedtime garden planning software builds a planting calendar around your frost dates, and the layout planner makes it easy to design a corn block that fits your bed alongside beans and squash.

Buy Corn Seeds with One Shipping Charge

When you buy corn seeds here, you can add seeds from multiple suppliers to the same order and pay one flat shipping charge, or qualify for free standard shipping on Seedtime-fulfilled orders of $49 or more to the lower 48 states. Paid Seedtime members get 20% off seed packets marked "Fulfilled by Seedtime" and 5% off everything else in the store. You can start planning for free, and if you want unlimited calendars and layouts along with those store discounts, compare Seedtime's plans to find the right fit. Whether you want a single packet of corn seeds for planting or a full sweet corn, popcorn, and ornamental patch, it all ships together.