Three sisters surprise

Dear fellow permis,
I wanted to share the surprise I found in my garden coming back from a 4 week absence.
The three sisters (milpa) had grown into a jungle. Some of the corn cobs are the size of my arm, the stalks at least 2,5m high!
Started harvesting the first green beans and saw a couple squash developing.
I'm super happy with the result, will update this with some pics of the harvest.

Beautiful!
How about a few more pics? And some details on your planting timing and methods?

Hi Thom.
I planted a variety of dent maize (some from the neighbor, some from Quail Seeds in late April in 4 rows, 4 little mounds each row with 4 seeds each.

When the corn was about 20 cm high I planted 4 beans in each mound (some green beans (the bean is small and white) and some giant purple ones).

In each row between the maize mounds I left some space to put squash. I planted at least 6 different types (butternut, hokkaido, luffa, melon, some volunteer from the compost last year probably a local variety). The local one is the most prolific so far, though I've also spotted a hokkaido already.

The sun flower was a volunteer.

I found a photo from June. not even 4 weeks between this photo and the one in the first post!!!

Here are some photos of the yield.

I got a good amount of maize, but the rats ate 50% of the big cobs


This is the squash. More than we can eat with only 2 people. I've been giving plenty away.


Unfortunately hardly any beans, they started real late and were hard to see. But it was old seeds, mixed varieties.
Any recommendations for a variety that does well with her other sisters?

Thank you for sharing.

You live in a beautiful place.

Rats! I get some rodent damage, but far more from birds.

It’s a type of rat that mostly eats fruits and nuts and lives in the trees here. Quite pretty. Our cats get some, but there are more. I can hear them chewing in the almond tree every night.
They ate the nicest and biggest cobs and just left the middle part. As soon as it got ripe