Companion Planting: Sweet Corn
Zea mays
Spacing: 1 per square foot.
Plant these nearby
- Bush Beans — Classic 'three sisters' — beans climb corn stalks and fix nitrogen.
- Winter Squash — Squash vines shade the soil, suppressing weeds around corn.
Keep these apart
- Tomato — Both attract the same earworm/fruitworm pest.