Corn Smut: A Reputation Redeemed
(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)
Here's the word: Silver Queen, that old favorite sweet corn variety, has a reputation for smut. Not the lurid kind. The kind that erupts from an ear of corn in a large, bulbous mass. It is a parasitic fungus that affects other parts of the plant as well, and most anyone who grows corn has made its acquaintance.
Here's the word: Silver Queen, that old favorite sweet corn variety, has a reputation for smut. Not the lurid kind. The kind that erupts from an ear of corn in a large, bulbous mass. It is a parasitic fungus that affects other parts of the plant as well, and most anyone who grows corn has made its acquaintance.
