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Awesome! Love seeing your garden! So I had a bit of an issue in my garden with the 3 sister style planting… planted Floriani Red Flint corn, a polenta corn which got hugely tall, and Cherokee cornfield beans. Gotta get some pic or video tomorrow. But the beanplants got super long and the beans have pulled down some of the corn! Like bent in half broken. I also have seen a squash plant that is now trying to aid in the venture and climb a cornstalk!
Have you ever had issues like that? Or do you always do a second/much later bean planting in the corn patch?
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It’s had to be succession planting for me, and the right types of beans and squash.
A pumpkin worked well. The squash has to be a variety that doesn’t climb. Rattlesnake beans covered the corn completely. A half-runner would probably be a good choice for the beans.
I also found that I had to plant the corn first, let it get a foot or more tall, then plant the beans, let them get established, and plant the squash last. Otherwise the beans took over the corn and the squash took over the beans.
Remember that those who originally planted this way had thousands of years to work out the kinks and develop varieties that played well together.
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I did exactly what you describe, waited until the corn was over a foot tall, etc. And the squash, though very viney isn’t the original culprit, it’s mostly heading right over and through the fence into the weedpatch next to my lot
True, which is why i thought Cherokee cornfield beans would probably be a great choice 
which hasn’t necessarily proved to be true. Maybe the conditions this year are just so, for these beans to go wild. The corn is taller than my outstretched hand, and there are bean vines coming off the top!
For reference, I’m 5ft5 and that corn has to be over 8 feet tall!
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