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?

Thanks in advance.

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.

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!

I used cornflowers which helped to green mulch the soil and cut down on waterring. Flowers were pretty too and rather aptly named!

i grew cobra climbing french beans up my sweetcorn last year and it worked very well..

Dwarf french beans for me all the way!

I've successfully grown beetroot under sweetcorn in the past, and I'm doing it again this year too.

I've gone for a couple of butternut squash plants. Not done it before so we'll see.