How to Plant a Three Sisters Garden
Native Americans devised the ingenious Three Sisters garden, a method whereby beans grow up corn stalks while squash plants serve as ground cover.
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Materials and Tools:
compost
corn seeds
pole bean seeds
summer squash seeds
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Steps:
1. In a Three Sisters garden, corn, beans and squash plants are grown together in a mutually beneficial arrangement. Tall corn is grown in the middle. Climbing beans grow up the corn stalks. And squash spreads across the soil providing the ground cover. Be sure to select pole beans rather than bush, and trailing summer squash rather than compact varieties.
2. Work a generous amount of compost into an area of the garden that receives full sun. Use a hoe to form a flat-topped hill 10" tall and no smaller than 4' in diameter.
3. In the center of the hill, plant four corn seeds 1" deep and 6" apart in all directions to form a square. Cover with soil and water well.
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