Sue,

My grandpa grew dent (field) corn on his dairy farm in Minnesota. Every so often some foolish townie would steal a few ears thinking they could boil it up like sweet corn. Grampa would laugh at them but he taught me how to boil the dent corn in a lye solution to make it edible by humans. Moving down to Texas I learned this was basically hominy grits.

A lot of my gardening attemps have been fairly unproductive. I want to try and see if I have better luck with Three Sisters Planting. I'm thinking field corn would be better for long-term storage and I'm assuming most field corn is now some sterile hybrid. I'm also assuming (bad Blast!) that most original corns grown here were of the hard-kernal type. I need to look at Chris' link to learn more.

-Blast