Not all corn is just automatically sweet corn. I'm no expert, but knowing what type your growing more than just "one is yellow and one is bi-colored" would be important.

I grew corn for the first time this year also ( just my second garden). I grew some "Gotta Have It" from Gurneys and I was very impressed with it, so much so that I am anxiously awaiting my second planting to ripen. I gave some to my neighbor who told me it was about the sweetest he ever ate and since he's 84 I would have to say he's tried alot. This corn was so sweet that I ate quite a few ears right off the stalk when I was out in the garden.

Can't say it often enough. Variety is important! One thing that could have happened is that you mixed type. If an SH2 (supersweet) crosses with another type it becomes almost inedible. Other types vary widely in sugar content.

I found my seed package. The variety is Early Sunglow.

The Peaches and Cream should be ripening in another week or so. I hope it has better flavor.

Probably it got overripe before you realized it. Early Sunglow is an older, but still widely grown, SU (normal sweet) hybrid corn. I still often use it as my 'first early' planting since it will generally germinate better in spring conditions than a SE (sugary enhanced) variety like Peaches&Cream. Peaches&Cream should be sweeter and have a somewhat longer window that you can harvest the ears.

Thanks, I sort of thought the lack of sweetness might be normal for this variety based on what I have been reading about it. Which I don't mind. But it is also lacking that corn flavor! Maybe it is over ripe but I tried several at different stages and nothing really impressed me. My ears were really small this year too. I think I'll pass on this variety next year. Can't wait to try the peaches and cream.

I appreciate all the responses!

It often takes quite a bit of trial and error growing when it comes to crops like corn or heirloom tomatoes, where there are so many different factors involved in what makes a particular variety appeal to you or not. I've grown probably forty different varieties of sweet corn in the last 20-25 years, many just to trial in small quantities, to see which ones I like best, which compare favorably to my old favorites, etc.

As we've seen from other corn threads on here, there is a wide range of preferences in corn, and there is no doubt a corn out there for everyone, it's just a matter of finding it. I guess the closest analogy I can make is to wine tasting, I'm sure that many devotees have tasted hundreds or thousands of wines, some they loved, some they hated, in the unending quest for the "best" ones.