Sweetcorn

[kethry]

I don't know, as i've never done this myself... the original poster, lilymarlene, may be a better person to ask.. if you scroll down her blog to Monday 21st May you should see the original entry and be able to leave a comment there asking her.

keth
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[Cutecumber]

Telford Grower - they won't do anything crazy, don't worry. It's easy to just rearrange the stem slighty to go under the base of the cob and then round behind it. I've not had any problems.

As to the timing of planting: my sweetcorn are about three weeks old, and I wont be sowing french beans for another couple of weeks at least. I plant them together once the sweetcorn are good and strong. The beans, as some of you have found, will easily out-grow the sweetcorn if you sow them together and you don't want any possibility of the beans winding too tightly while the sweetcorn are young.

[Flummery]

I've got half a tray of bush beans left which I'm intending to put in amongst the corn this weekend (if it ever stops raining!) I came to the conclusion myself that there would be an unholy mess in there with climbing beans so they are already up 2 wigwams (we're still talking Native American though eh?) at the end of the corn block. The squashes are at the side of the block of corn too. More a case of 3 good friends than 3 sisters!