Corn/squash interplanting spacing

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At what density would you recommend planting corn while growing winter squash in the shade of it, 3 ft between rows. 10ft tall corn (I want to make a cross of blue Clarage and negro de chimaltengo (if I can get seeds)), I think I,m going to plant the squash in a 6 ft bed without corn, yet the bed in the middle of the corn patch, so I can plant it early, for I know my corn seems to need atleast a little hilling to stand. It worked well enough this year just to dig out from in between every other row to hill, recently the trenches got filled with corn stalks, and cowpea vines/moldy seeds, filled back in the trenches, now where the trenches where there are many cowpeas sprouting back up, gotten good sized, my first frost is coming so they should start to be done with soon, but the rapeseed should pick up their n left overs. 

[oxbowfarm]

Much closer than 2 foot on center in the row and the squash isn't going to be able to do much. Three sisters type hills are about 6 foot on center in all directions. You need to open the corn way out to grow squash in with the corn. I prefer to just plant it on the edges when I companion plant them, which I don't really do much anymore. If you are planting to maximize corn yield then the squash will be shaded out, and so will P. vulgaris beans usually. My 2¢.

[reed]

I don't know about squash but while most advertised as such, are not, there are actual "cornfield beans". Ohio pole when planted inside a normally spaced corn patch after the corn is 1 1/2 feet tall does very well for me.

I'v wondered since I discovered that, if there may also be actual "cornfield squash". Either one though, unless done with wide spacing like recommended above makes it difficult to get in to tend and harvest your corn.

[diane]

All three vegetables could be harvested together - winter squash, dry beans and dry corn, or are those sweet corns you want to grow?

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I don't believe in sweet corn just field corn, my dry beans (cowpeas) needed to be harvested almost everyday this year to escape molding from rain, so I,d rather not have to delicately walk around squash picking them everyday. Thus I,m going to try corn/beans with a 120 day corn, corn/squash with a 90 day corn. I'm not sure what gets to my squash mid season it appears to mostly die, but still lives enough to produce a bit more of a crop, we,lol see if I get much out of it if it's competing for light while it really taking off. I only plant the Seminole pumpkin from sese, I worry about other varieties not being able to take much abuse, the other Asian moscahato I,be tried to grow seemed to die completely, idk if ther are any other varieties that do good in the south without pesticide. I,lol try the 2 ft in row spacing see what I get. I also figure I could most likely lower my nitrogen rates for this plot by 1/2 (1/2 the density) or 1/4 idk, any suggestions.

[RpR]

I have put squash on the East side of corn, in recent years, at least three feet from nearest row, and my squash vines head West or Southwest .
By the time they reach the corn the corn is large enough that they seem to get along fine.
Now I only put in two to three squash plants but a lot of corn patches.
The squash decides where it wants to go and I get five or six from each plant.

I do treat my squash, and some times corn, with Seranade, or some similar bio-fungicide and that rarely does not cure any disease problems.
I learned to check my squash vine form borers and in the past two years cut them out and crushed them before they did much damage.

For fertilizer, other than foliar feeding if things look worse than normal, I put Sheep manure in every few years and that does more than any bagged fertilizer.