Bed recipe · field-tested

Sweet corn + Pickling cucumber

Majs + Cornichon (friland)

Illustration
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How the bed is laid out

A double black raised bed. Pickling cucumber climbs against the corn in the innermost row.

Pickling cucumbers use the corn stalks as living trellis.

In this bed

The season, month by month

MarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct
Sweet corn sown indoors STH
Pickling cucumber sown indoors S
Sow — indoors or direct, per row note Transplant Harvest

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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