Companion Planting Sweet Corn in Your Intensive Garden
by John Yazo
Garden corn, sweet corn is a crop that does well with many of the most common crops that are grown in the home garden. Some of these crops benefit each other by improving the soil, providing nutrients to feed from and protection from pests. This is why companion planting is a benefit in your intensive gardening practices.
Cucumbers, melons, peas, pole beans, pumpkins and squash are all benefited by the shade a tall crop of corn can provide them and in return these crops benefit a corn crop by shading the soil to suppress weeds, along with the vines climbing the stalks helps to prevent raccoons from destroying corn. Raccoons don't like traveling through the tick vines.
These two crops, peas and pole beans can greatly benefit corn by there ability of nitrogen fixation. They can supply nitrogen back to the soil for corn to feed from and thrive.
The practice of companion planting is a very important part of intensive gardening. Planting crops that can greatly benefit each other and the soil ill greatly improve your crops yields. Corn is one crop that has many benefits to give. It's ability alone to grow tall and strong will provide a natural trellis to support your vine type crops, along with the ability to shade the soil to grow crops that like cooler conditions during the warm months of your growing season.
One crop that can cause a problem when planted with corn is the tomato. The tomato fruitworm and the corn earworm are one in the same, they are harmful to both crops. There are a few organic methods that can be used to control these pests from harming your crop. Attracting beneficial predators and releasing lacewings or minute pirate bugs are way to control these pest.
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