Hi Linda. I had only one blooming plant of 'Fama', this past summer. The one (first) flower produced only three viable seeds & then the flowering stems of plant was promptly chewed off by a rabbit. I think it's probably better to have at least a pair of this particular cultivar, in order to cross pollinate, possibly increasing seed production. But, low production of viable seeds, may be the reason for this one being actually relatively expensive, when compared to the cost of most other perennial flower seeds.

Dennimi: I finally did a late planting of the black sticky corn this year. It is a total disppointment! I think the seeds were not right. The cob is too large, about the size of a field corn. It is bright purple in color at fresh corn stage. The taste and texture are awful. The black sticky corn I saw in China are about 3/4 size of a field corn and are black or deep purple in color. I'll not recommend saving seeds from this corn. The yellow sticky corn in my garden did wonderful again. We ate all we could and froze a few too. This corn froze nicely after being fully cooked on the cob.

We grow a couple different varieties of white pumpkins each season and have grown Lumina....they can be a little touchy some seasons and we stopped growing them and moved onto better. Some of my favorite...Cotton Candy...they are nice round basketball sized pumpkins that grow on semi bush vines. We have grown these each year for past 6 yrs and always get good production. Also last year we began growing a white pumpkin called Valenciano...they are nice creamy white pumpkin that will get to be about 10 -12 pounds. They have quickly become my favorite and are pretty easy to grow and you get quite a few pumpkins off each vine. So don't give up on the white pumpkins...there are some better varieties out there. One thing also we have found that growing them next to corn or tall grass gives them the protection they need from the sun scorching them. Can find seeds thru Johnny's Seeds, Rupps Seeds or Reimer Seeds...

As a child we ate "LOTS" of popcorn (nightly in the winter, popped in the fireplace) that my father grew. If you are able to grow your own "IT" will be the best you can get if you take care of it properly! Just be sure of what you are planting! I contacted the "Fireworks Popcorn Company" with some questions I had about there products before I purchase from them. petaloid, I am really confused about the term "Little" when you refer to popcorn. I have never heard of it before this posting and I am a Pop Corn Freak without a doubt!! I am checking it out! Terri- You and that "Baby White", I've heard of it before with some great responses but know absolutely nothing about it other than "The Popcorn Factory" carries it. I will be getting some I assure you. However when they say "TINY" it disturbs me so I emailed them to try and get it cleared up! If you have tried it please let me know ASAP, because it will determine how much I get. If not, I'll send you some when I get it. ritaotay, you're absolutely right about the freshness on the whole, anyone that argues with that is nuts, LOL!! Throughout the winter you could see it degrade slightly to moderately, I just remember the grownups talking about it. The only thing that bothers me about "The Fireworks popcorn company" is they refer to there corn being open pollinated in the fields, this just makes no sense to me. I guess we will find out! Changeling