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Three sisters bed
Has anyone tried (successfully or not!) planting a "Three Sisters
Bed", where you plant sweetcorn, climbing beans and squashes in one bed? I'd like to try it, but in reading up on it, it seems to need careful planning, so as not to get the beans ahead of the sweetcorn. Carol Klein did it in her recent Veg programme but I can't remember the result! I think timing must be crucial. You can read about it at the end of this article by Carol Klein, from the Guardian on line. http://tinyurl.com/2zd72a TIA Pam in Bristol |
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In article , Pam Moore writes: | Has anyone tried (successfully or not!) planting a "Three Sisters | Bed", where you plant sweetcorn, climbing beans and squashes in one | bed? No, but I have done the simpler form, which was common in Africa: maize and squashes. In the UK, it is marginally beneficial. The problem is that all three are competing for the same sunlight, which the the commodity in shortest supply. In the tropics, that is not so, and the mutual shade they give each other is beneficial. Whatever you do, you need a TALL sweetcorn and get it started EARLY. If it doesn't get to 6', you are onto a loser, and 8' would be better. What I do is to put up a 12' square by 6' high frame, and string across the top and down the sides. The beans can go on that, and there is room underneath for other crops. It works. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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