90 days. NON-GMO, OPEN POLLINATED, HEIRLOOM.
Country Gentleman corn was introduced around 1890 by Frank Woodruff & Sons. Peter Henderson Seed Company followed suit the next year. This old heirloom corn was what the old-timers called "shoe peg" corn. This variety is characterized by its tightly packed, but uneven rows of kernels. The corn ears reach 7-8 inches long and produce a sweet white kernel. Corn plants reach 8' tall and produce many tillers. Developed around 1890 in the Connecticut River Valley, it is a much bigger form of a very, very old variety.
'Country Gentleman' is a very old sweet corn variety that took Frank Woodruff fourteen years of selective breeding to develop. When it was introduced, it was immediately well received. It wasn't long until many other seed companies began offering it, and it persisted as one of the most popular white sweet corn varieties, for both home and market growers, for many decades. Its stalks average seven to eight feet tall, producing ears that reach about seven inches in length with irregular rows of white, sweet, shoe peg-shaped kernels. This is a variety all gardeners should try.