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Janet wrote:

A light shade, actually, unless you plant it VERY densely!

iirc the planting distance is 2ft (both directions)

I plant at 18"!

It is
commonly underplanted with cucurbits, and that works well.

Not IME.I tried the Three Sisters, and it was nbg even for the bean
sister.I know that works in the USA but sun and light levels are too low
up here.

It works well enough here in the Deep South, but I didn't bother
trying the Three Sisters, because the sweetcorn would deprive the
beans of water, and the beans would deprive the sweetcorn of light.
My climbing beans would quite happily get to 10', and even tall
sweetcorn doesn't get above that here.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.