Elsoms is the UK’s leading supplier of quality vegetable seed. We offer an impressive range of varieties from our own and our partners’ breeding programmes.
Sweetcorn
Elsoms have partnered with Crookham Company, a breeder with over a century of experience and expertise in the US sweetcorn market and Snowy River, a renowned Australian breeder producing hybrid varieties for world markets. This new partnership means we can now offer exceptional varieties bred by both partners specifically for their suitability to European growing conditions.
Select a variety category:
Sugary Yellow
ZUY1367ID
Early and strong, with great emergence. It allows to get an early jump on your processing season. Good husk protection and great flags for husking. Large yield potential, suitable for early sowings and late as a catch up crop.
ZUY1367ID
- Growing Days 70
- Cob Length (cm) 21
- Cob Width (cm) 5
ZUY7469OY (Imperator)
Main season variety can be planted throughout the whole campaign. Easy to grow. Healthy plant. Well adapted to many different environments, including the ones with high MDMV pressure. Bred for processors, giving high recoveries in factories.
ZUY7469OY (Imperator)
- Growing Days 82
- Cob Length (cm) 20
- Cob Width (cm) 5.5
Enterprise
Main and late season. Good yield potential under stress. Excellent disease resistance including MDMV. Wide harvest window.
Enterprise
- Days to Maturity: 85
- Row Number 18
- Cob Length (inches/cm) 8.1/20.7
- Cob Width (inches/cm) 2.1/5.3
Prelude
Prelude has excellent vigor and cold start emergence. Cobs have good color with excellent eating quality. Very uniform medium size cob with deep medium kernels with small core and strong tip fill. Very consistent high yield under a wide range of conditions. Freezes well as both kernel and cob. Cans well.
Prelude
- Suitable For Processing - freezing & cans
- Sowing Months April/May
- Harvesting Months August/September
- Maturity Slot Second early
- Days to Maturity 79