"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message

The problem for Alan is in getting any old enough variety of
corn/maize that will come true from saved seed (and there is
another
but I'll mention it later). If he's still interested (and he's
probably been scarred off by now :-)) then he would be best to
look
for heritage varieties in the US where there is a very active seed
savers groups and I know that heritage corn is one of the things
that
they've been saving..

Thanks for that, my daughter is now living in the US, I'll have to
try to
remember to ask her if she can get some for me!

Have a look at these sites in the US, they may help :
http://www.seedsavers.org/products.asp?dept=27
http://www.victoryseeds.com/catalog/...corn/corn.html

There is probably more of them too.

Alan