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Three sisters method.
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:42:31 +0100, Gordon wrote:
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? I tried it a couple of years ago after a visit to Plymouth Plantation where the Wampanoags were using it. It sounds like a good idea but it didn't do any better than conventional techniques. However I have a pest problem with my peas and beans which is unrelated to the planting technique that I use. Something chews my pea plants up, don't know if its something small like an insect or large like a rabbit or groundhog, but I've gotten terrible pea yields the last few years. |
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