Hoping someone may be able to offer me a little advice, as generally when it comes to growing veg I don't seem to have much luck, though to be fair I've only really started to try in the last year or two. Bearing that in mind I'm trying to keep my production relatively small this year so I can focus on a just a few things.
I really want to try the native American Three sisters gardening, i.e. corn, with beans using the corn as a support and growing squash underneath to retain moisture and keep weeds down. However I live in a house that only has a paved (thankfully mostly south facing) garden, so anything I grow has to be in containers. I'm still keen to give this a go and just wondered if anyone else has tried this in containers before, more importantly if anyone has any advice, such as the best compost to use in something like this, the bast way to arrange the plants (I'll probably use a large potato grow bag that can maybe hold 30-40L of compost), if everything should be in already (I have seedlings, but not planted out yet), what kind of feed this system would need (I know the beans fix nitrogen which is good for the corn but I assume it will still need feeding), if this is just a pointless venture (which probably still wouldn't put me off )
Btw don't know if it will change anything but I live in the southwest, so quite warm, but tends to be pretty wet!
Many thanks
I really want to try the native American Three sisters gardening, i.e. corn, with beans using the corn as a support and growing squash underneath to retain moisture and keep weeds down. However I live in a house that only has a paved (thankfully mostly south facing) garden, so anything I grow has to be in containers. I'm still keen to give this a go and just wondered if anyone else has tried this in containers before, more importantly if anyone has any advice, such as the best compost to use in something like this, the bast way to arrange the plants (I'll probably use a large potato grow bag that can maybe hold 30-40L of compost), if everything should be in already (I have seedlings, but not planted out yet), what kind of feed this system would need (I know the beans fix nitrogen which is good for the corn but I assume it will still need feeding), if this is just a pointless venture (which probably still wouldn't put me off )
Btw don't know if it will change anything but I live in the southwest, so quite warm, but tends to be pretty wet!
Many thanks
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