Monday, November 23, 2009

Note to self: The Three Sisters

As an experiment I planted The Three Sisters in the garden this year—that's a traditional Native American system where sweetcorn, beans and pumpkins all planted together. It's amazingly efficient—the beans grow up the corn stalks and the pumpkins grow around on the ground between them.

I wasn't sure how to do it so I planted everything together. It looks like I should have waited for the corn to grow a bit before planting the beans—right now the beans are zooming ahead.

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