I haven't done a three sisters garden yet, but plan to this year. I plan to use several beans, probably including White Willow Leaf pole lima.

I will not use King of the Garden, another pole lima, because it has very heavy growth and would probably be the first to blow over. I wouldn't worry about the White Willow Leaf though.

Jim

Thanks for the feedback Jim. I have the following 3 types of pole limas:

Christmas limas - pole
Carolina -pole (white seeds, small size, they look like baby limas), and
Butterbean limas - pole.
(my fourth variety is a bush lima)

Any experience with any of these pole lima varieties? my guess would be that the baby lima (Carolina) might be a smaller plant since the seeds are smaller? I will probably try that one unless someone reports having problems with it abusing the corn too much. I will update the thread reporting what happens. Jim, please tell us what happens with your combination too!

I was going to play it safe and just sow one bean per corn stalk, or should I do more than one?