According to Carrots Love Tomatoes Blackberries need 5 to 5.7 pH soil while respberries need 6.5 to 7 pH. Black & purple respberries should be planted no closer than 600 ft. from red varieties because of virus disease and blackberries should not be close to raspberries (no reason given)...
Plant pumpkins and squash at the ends of your corn rows to help keep those rascally raccoons out. They don't like the vines because they can't keep a lookout for Farmer John with his shotgun. And yes, people have planted pole beans with corn since they started growing them - remember the...