Topic: Can I grow a Courgette plant inbetween my sweet corn plants?

[Duke Ellington]

I have one courgette plant left and nowhere to put it. Would it be okay to plant it so that it grows under the developing sweet corn?

Duke

[djbrenton]

Yes, it's the same as growing squash between sweetcorn which is standard.

[daileg]

yes courgette plants add nutrients to the soil same as squash and the likes be carfull of the space it takes up between your Corn .
im currently got runners and squash with my beans all sharing the same soil

they call this the three sisters ,
sure you can find a thread on this somwhere

[Duke Ellington]

Thanks for both answers I will plant it today  ;D

Duke

[Robert_Brenchley]

Leave a gap in the corn planting, or move one or two if you've already planted them, and shove it in. I've interplanted squashes loads of times, quite successfully. I'm doing things a bit differently this year and interplanting my corn with the onions.

[mellor]

Hi

I think they form two of the three sisters as covered on Carol Kleins' program, the other sister is climbing beans which grow up the sweetcorn, never done it as i like nice rows etc.

Cheers

[manicscousers]

I've just planted a jack be little squash to sprawl under my sweetcorn, is your courgette a bush type or a sprawling one, my long neck yellow squash takes a metre square up ,now  :o
the climbing one is going great guns up a hazel frame  :)

[tim]

What I can never figure is how you get to pick the Corn - or Beans - without squashing the Squash??

[djbrenton]

The traditional three sisters method assumes you're using the veg as native americans would. Leave the corn to dry for cornmeal, the beans to dry for over-winter and then you take everything up at the same time.

[Robert_Brenchley]

If you plant them in beds, that gives you paths you can use to get to the crop. When the squashes reach the path, just turn them round and let them grow back the other way. I've never grown beans with them since that really would imply a lot of pulling about, and climbing beans are taller than the corn I grow anyway, so I think they'd smother it.

[tim]

Thanks, DJ - now they tell me!! I'm sure no one else knew that?