I tried it this yr with mini pop. 40 plants. Mini pop doesn't need pollinating, it grows to the same height as corn on cob. My plants grow to 6 ft and it can be harvest about September time.
The beans are happy to grow up the stems and don't strangle the corn. Think I planted the corn to close together though, as the squash didn't really take off, not enough light. The beans, I grew on the outer plants and also planted dwarf beans around the edge.
Excellent crop of beans and mini pop. Mini pop also needs to be picked before they get to big. It can be eaten though, straight off the plant.
In order to have a healthy plant to support the beans the corn needs to be planted in a trench like spuds and earthed up.
Shrinking Violet, I won't pin my hopes on it or try it in the Vegetable plot then. Just in fun corner. Thank you. "Three sisters" sounds so appealing. I will try for three little sisters instead.
The pollinating would be the biggest problem with a small quantity of the corn, so Zoomer44, mini pop sounds a lot more realistic for around here. Thank you - and well done with your plants! I love the miniature sweetcorn. I'll keep my eye on the depth and spacing. I think a lot may depend on me getting the things started early enough. They should get about 10 hours of sun at it's zenith for a couple of months, around mid-summer in fun corner. I am thinking of grabbing a stretch of what is now the lawn for the purpose, so the area will form a wide triangle. That space is waisted on lawn, since nobody has time to sit about on it at the hight of summer anyway. I shall have to do a bit of soil improving though - get rid of quite a few big stones and lots of small ones if I am going to achieve anything like a trench there. I can always put something else in late season if it doesn't work out (more mustard and rocket - there can never be too much mustard and rocket!.)
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I tried it this yr with mini pop. 40 plants. Mini pop doesn't need pollinating, it grows to the same height as corn on cob. My plants grow to 6 ft and it can be harvest about September time.
The beans are happy to grow up the stems and don't strangle the corn. Think I planted the corn to close together though, as the squash didn't really take off, not enough light. The beans, I grew on the outer plants and also planted dwarf beans around the edge.
Excellent crop of beans and mini pop. Mini pop also needs to be picked before they get to big. It can be eaten though, straight off the plant.
In order to have a healthy plant to support the beans the corn needs to be planted in a trench like spuds and earthed up.
Shrinking Violet, I won't pin my hopes on it or try it in the Vegetable plot then. Just in fun corner. Thank you. "Three sisters" sounds so appealing. I will try for three little sisters instead.
The pollinating would be the biggest problem with a small quantity of the corn, so Zoomer44, mini pop sounds a lot more realistic for around here. Thank you - and well done with your plants! I love the miniature sweetcorn. I'll keep my eye on the depth and spacing. I think a lot may depend on me getting the things started early enough. They should get about 10 hours of sun at it's zenith for a couple of months, around mid-summer in fun corner. I am thinking of grabbing a stretch of what is now the lawn for the purpose, so the area will form a wide triangle. That space is waisted on lawn, since nobody has time to sit about on it at the hight of summer anyway. I shall have to do a bit of soil improving though - get rid of quite a few big stones and lots of small ones if I am going to achieve anything like a trench there. I can always put something else in late season if it doesn't work out (more mustard and rocket - there can never be too much mustard and rocket!.)