I just tried a trick that the Aztecs used to do - planting maize with beans in between. The beans nitrogenate the soil with their leguminising nodules, helping the sweetcorn to grow, and the woody stems of the maize provide a living cane for the beans to climb up.
I just tried a trick that the Aztecs used to do - planting maize with beans in between. The beans nitrogenate the soil with their leguminising nodules, helping the sweetcorn to grow, and the woody stems of the maize provide a living cane for the beans to climb up.
That's the theory, anyway...