3 sisters planting method

How big were the patches that you planted up this way NS ? 
and please can you give me some idea of spacing/number of plants?

They were both about 5m wide x 3m deep.  I had less sweetcorn and squashed in some Huauzontle in one, but the pure 3 sisters one had 12 sweetcorn, 4 bean wigwams of 6 canes each and 2 trailing squashes.  The wigwams has 2 beans growing up each cane.  There were climbing Borlotti on 2 wigwams and Cherokee Trail of Tears on the other 2.

It looked like this on the ground.

Bean wigwam                   Sweetcorn x 4 in a row               Bean wigwam

Trailing squash                 Sweetcorn x 4 in a row              Trailing squash

Bean wigwam                   Sweetcorn x 4 in a row               Bean wigwam

Werked for me 

good info. i have some borlotti beans so will plant them instead. i can leave them dry on the plants without disturbing the others

Exactly what I did 

       

Thank you New Shoot 

ah ha, getting the jist of this now  -  great idea planting the beans for drying in amongst the corn.  May give this a go New Shoot, thanks.