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Three sisters method.
"Gordon" wrote in message . .. "busbus" wrote in : "Gordon" wrote in message ... 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. Sweet peas and corn grow in different seasons. Attempting to combine them is a waste of time and money. 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. |
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