Growing: Three Sisters plus one

Last year we grew sweetcorn on the allotment for the first time; very successful & tasty it was too!

This time around, we're going to have a crack at the Native American 'Three Sisters' method: growing corn (Swift) which will support beans (Borlotto Lamon) amongst ground-covering squash (Jack O'Lantern, Uchiki Kuri, Tromba d'Albenga). My partner has demanded we get the fourth sister sunflower (Titan) in there.

Good introductory article by the Rodale Institute can be accessed here

I'll let you know if we go with the four, & how we get on.