Vegetable / Warm season
Golden Bantam Sweet Corn
Block plantings in larger gardens with wind-pollination space.
Old-fashioned sweet corn flavor with yellow kernels.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 80
- Germination temperature
- 60-95F
- Seed depth
- 1 inches
- Spacing
- 12 inches
- Row spacing
- 30 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 14 days after last frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 14 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 12 inches in-row spacing, 30 inches between rows, and 1 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Single skinny rows pollinate poorly. Deep water during tasseling and ear fill. Warm, fertile soil; plant in blocks for pollination.
Is it still worth sowing this year?
Every region this site covers (Texas, North Florida, Central Maryland, New York City and York County, PA) publishes a sweet corn planting window, so the answer for this variety is already dated. No other region is covered yet.
- Check Golden Bantam Sweet Corn against the Texas first frost date AgriLife lists sweet corn for Texas (AgriLife Region III); the page measures that window against this variety's 80 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Is it too late to sow Golden Bantam Sweet Corn in North Florida this year? UF/IFAS lists sweet corn for North Florida; the page measures that window against this variety's 80 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Check Golden Bantam Sweet Corn against the Central Maryland first frost date UMD Extension lists sweet corn for Central Maryland; the page measures that window against this variety's 80 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Is it too late to sow Golden Bantam Sweet Corn in New York City this year? Cornell CCE lists sweet corn for the New York City area; the page measures that window against this variety's 80 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Check Golden Bantam Sweet Corn against the York County, PA first frost date Penn State Extension lists sweet corn for York County, Pennsylvania; the page measures that window against this variety's 80 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Deep water during tasseling and ear fill.
- Soil
- Warm, fertile soil; plant in blocks for pollination.
- Watch
- Single skinny rows pollinate poorly.
- grass-family
- block-planting
- summer
- heavy-feeder
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Grass Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
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