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- 04-06-2010, 10:08 PM #1
Underplanting Sweetcorn
I know the usual thing to underplant Sweetcorn with are Squashes....but has anyone tried anything else?...
maybe lettuces, spring onions, beetroots??
What do you think yay or nay?
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- 04-06-2010, 10:34 PM #2
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I've done lettuce and it worked quite well. I would be cautious about root crops as you don't want to disturb the sweetcorn roots.
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- 05-06-2010, 06:26 AM #3
I have one sweetcorn bed planted with the traditional beans and squashes mix and another with the serious glut of PSB and sprouts that I grew and couldn't bear to compost. No negatives so far (very early days) but one positive has been the very hungry pigeons haven't found this lot of brassicas...yet!
- 05-06-2010, 07:15 AM #4
I used cornflowers which helped to green mulch the soil and cut down on waterring. Flowers were pretty too and rather aptly named!
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to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
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- 05-06-2010, 09:27 PM #5
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i grew cobra climbing french beans up my sweetcorn last year and it worked very well..
- 05-06-2010, 09:38 PM #6
Dwarf french beans for me all the way!
- 05-06-2010, 09:54 PM #7
I've successfully grown beetroot under sweetcorn in the past, and I'm doing it again this year too.
- 05-06-2010, 09:58 PM #8
I've gone for a couple of butternut squash plants. Not done it before so we'll see.
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