"busbus" wrote in
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"Gordon" wrote in message
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A friend told me about the Three Sisters growing method.
Apearently It comes from the Native Americans who would
grow Corn, Beans and Squash together. The corn stalks
would provide a trellis for the beans to grow on, and
the squash would grow on the ground and provide cover
to control the weeds. Sounds intresting.

Anyone else heard of it? Anyone tried it?

Actually, yes, that is the method we used whenever I was a kid.

We never planted beans in there but we always grew bush beans, so
maybe that was the reason.

I also grow Bush Beans, So I wasn't going to plant them in with
the corn. But I do grow Sweet Pea Pods which need some thing to
climb on. So I may put them in with the corn.


Actually, come to think of it, we almost always planted the corn where
the beans were last planted because dad believed corn sucked a lot of
nitrogen out of the soil and beans put it back.

Hmmm. May not be possible in my limited space. The Bush Beans,
being a low plant grow in a front furrow, but the corn grows in
the back, by the fence. Reversing their places would probably not
work.