I had the opportunity to grow the “three sisters” this year. For those of you that don’t know what the “three sisters” are, it’s corn, beans and squash. The three grown together form a symbiotic relationship: corn- which naturally robs large amounts of nitrogen from the soil- allows beans to grow around its stalks.

The beans, in turn, put nitrogen balk in the soil after everything is harvested. Finally, squash with its large broad leaves allow the soil surrounding the beans and corn to remain free from weeds.

I researched as much as I could about the three sisters over the last year and while I won’t be adding fish to the bottom of the soil where the plants are planted or making an elevated steeped bed.

I began by making a circle from sweet corn and from there added garden bean and Spanish bean from beyond that. I then added varieties of winter squash, pumpkins and some butternuts surrounding the four corners on the outer edges.

I have no idea how this will work,
But I’ll keep you all posted over
The next few months. Stay tuned!!