On Jun 7, 8:16*pm, songbird wrote:
Higgs Boson wrote:

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May go ahead anyway and also plant beans, which are known to work well
with corn.

Should be an interesting menage!

* are they everbearing strawberries?

* planted sparsely they will do better or if you
can put them on the north sideish.

* my contra-indication is that both are heavy
feeders and that corn likes it a bit dryer than
strawberries. *also if they are everbearing
strawberries then that reduces or eliminates the
third+ crops until the corn dies back enough
to let more light in (if heavily interplanted).

* beans will help quite a bit for the strawberries.
trim some of the leaves off once in a while and
use that for green manure in the patch. *the worms
and plants love it. *climbing beans (pinto, or
pole beans of various kinds) will use the corn for
support. *plant the beans a while after the corn
it needs a head start.

* songbird

Thanks for the encouragement! Yes, the strawberries are planted
sparsely, and most of them are ever-bearing, but ISTR a few are June
bearing.

Appreciate the tip about giving the corn a head start.

HB