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Golden Bantam
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Golden Bantam is the heirloom yellow sweetcorn that made yellow ears fashionable in early twentieth-century America when white was the prestige colour. Short stalks, eight-row ears, and old-fashioned sugary flavour define it. Open-pollinated, so seed savers can maintain lines—unlike modern hybrids that need repurchase yearly. Grow for historic taste; eat within hours of picking for best sweetness before starch rises. Smaller ears than giant modern hybrids. Excellent educational garden corn and farmers-market nostalgia stock with a story to tell buyers.
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History
W. Atlee Burpee introduced Golden Bantam, popularising yellow sweetcorn.
Golden Bantam became a household garden standard across the US.
Hybrid sweets displaced Bantam from commercial acreage.
Heirloom movements restored Golden Bantam to seed catalogues.