Bed recipe · field-tested

Spinach + Sweet corn + Beans + Pumpkin

Spenat + Majs + Bönor + Pumpa

Grown for real in my garden in 2016 — first written up in the log.

Illustration
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How the bed is laid out

Corn growing tightly with climbing beans, and pumpkin sprawling between and around the plants in a lush tangle.

The classic Three Sisters as the mid-season crop, framed by spinach before and after: corn carries the beans, the beans feed the soil, the pumpkin keeps it covered. Bean of the year: Yin Yang. Tried the season before with good results.

In this bed

Spinach Sweet corn Beans Pumpkin

The season, month by month

	Apr	May	Jun	Sep
Spinach direct-sown		H	H
Sweet corn sown indoors		S	T	H
Beans	S	T
Pumpkin sown indoors		S	T	H

Sow — indoors or direct, per row note Transplant Harvest Sowings before March aren't shown — check each crop page.

A friendly reminder: every garden plays by its own rules. Zones, soil, weather and a hundred small things decide what works — so this is how I did it and what worked for me, not a promise. Try, learn, adjust, try again.. that's half the fun anyway.

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