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Few days ago my sister asked me if I had ever heard of "Three Sisters Garden"? I said no but would research it. Well folks this is an amazingly interesting technique of planting the "three sisters" crops--corn, beans, and squash--together, efficiently promoting space economy, water retention, pest prevention, and improved soil fertility You save space and produce more vegetables. This is a method used by the Native Americans for many generations. One lady learned of it from the Cherokee Indian Museum in N.C.
It's too late for me to try it because all my garden is planted but for some of you it might be a thought. It can be done in containers as well.
I have tried that ( in my early years of gardening) It's great however I found it hard to harvest without breaking stems of plants. Since I have been blessed enough to have large yards I always let things have their own space.
I have heard of it and wanted to try it Dale because of my lack of space. I wanted to use it on the wast side of my yard but ended up not doing it this year. I might try it next year.
I did it partially last year as I planted pumpkins in the corn patch. I too have a fair amount of space so I have a separate area for the beans. I have enough free area this year to plant pumpkins by themselves too so I will do that. We will keep a pumpkin or two or three but the pumkins are really for Kathryn (Scarez). She doesn't have room for pumpkins, so we will get the pumpkins down to her in southern Oregon with Deb's help.
Now if you plant bush beans like that will it work? Or will the corn shade the bush beans too much? I only like blue lake bush beans. Also instead of a squash can you plant cucumbers?
When I was little we learned about this in school so Dad & I tried it but when it came time to harvest the beans we ended up stepping on the vines. My grandson learned about it in school a few years ago so we tried it in containers. Corn doesn't do well in containers in windy areas. I give up.
same here, I think you mentioned them yrs ago and I tried them and now that is all that I plant for beans. Did them in containers last yr and they did wonderful.
Ok going to plant my root veggies tomorrow and the rest on sunday. Weeds in the garden are either dead or dying. Going to do a light tilling in the morning and get going!
We planted a small patch of corn and added some pumpkin and acorn squash seeds in. They did great at first until we had a drought and I forgot to water oops...lol. We got one small pumpkin and one very small acorn squash. Our corn did not do that good and it got maggots or some type of worm in it. We just left it for the squirrels who were eying it all summer. We're going to try it again next year with hopefully better luck and me actually watering it....lol.
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oops...lol. We got one small pumpkin and one very small acorn squash. Our corn did not do that good and it got maggots or some type of worm in it. We just left it for the squirrels who were eying it all summer. We're going to try it again next year with hopefully better luck and me actually watering it....lol.