In Maryland you can grow just about ant sweet corn variety available. You will have to decide whether you want a Supersweet, a synergistic, an Se or an Su. I personally prefer synergistic or Se as they are fairly sweet but still have corn flavor. Mid season varieties have size and flavor, while the extra earlies ( 60-70 DTM are lacking in both size and flavor. One of my favorites is Sugar Dots available on Ferry Morse seed racks. You probably only want a packet of seeds. Ambrosia is a popular bicolor for home gardeners. There are lots of good ones available. You may

I'm with your son. The bicolor just look better so why not eat those that look good. Among bicolor you still have hundreds of choices. I'm partial to the synergistic (se x sh2) varieties for eating quality. They not only are sweet but also have great texture. You can't go wrong with a variety like Providence. Beyond that you might want to try an earlier variety and later variety to have extended harvest from one planting. Early varieties may not have the ear size you want but you can always compromise by just selecting a 72 day variety instead of a 65 day. A week isn't a big deal.

I agree...do not plant an extra early variety. There are some good varieties like farmer suggests. My favorites are leaning to yellow though.

'Gotta have it' is supposed to be a really good bi-color super sweet but I have not grown it. It is exclusive to Gurneys and they are very proud of the seed. The deer and raccoons really seemed to enjoy Ambrosia the last time I tried to grow sweet corn.

I hope you have a good tall fence to protect it from the critters!!!

ETA - Gurneys has Gotta have it on sale at the moment for 1/2 price. A 200 seed packet is $4.50 and 1/2 lb. is $20

Delectable is also a very good SE bicolor, widely available. If your son might like a few ears of a different color, sprinkle in a few seeds of Ruby Queen in a sowing of other SE varieties. The Ruby Queen ears will have red kernels but the red doesn't cross back to other corn in the same planting.

Our family prefers the supersweets, sh2. Honey and Pearl would be our choice.

I ordered some Delectable and also Trinity from Johnny's.

Trinity as an early one, but Delectable is to be my "main" crop.

I have raised Delectable. It produced about the largest ear that you can get. It was fairly good, but not my favorite.

Honey & Pearl has outstanding eating quality. The only problem is poor plant vigor. I just couldn't put up with poor performance most years.

Honey & Pearl seems to grow quite well in our south Louisiana climate. It's the only sh2 corn our local garden center purchases in bulk and repacks into 2 oz packages for sale. Could not find close pictures of H&P; the photos below show rows nearing harvest.

Very nice looking garden granddad!!!!