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Re: Corn, beans and squash

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Trudi and Laura-  I have planted corn at 16 inch centers staggered in a
criss-cross pattern. ( The soil is an unknown and may not support the corn
at 12 inch centeres this year.) I will be adding scarlet runner beans for
fun but the zucchini will be in it's own bed away from the cucs for this
year. (Something about family feuds or something...)

I am exhausted and so is Vera! We have completed "stage one" of our front
yard and stage two in the back yard garden. It is taking me about 1 1/2
hours per day watering all the seeds and new perennials we have planted in
the new beds. I have removed eleven trees of various types and kept all
usable firewood for the firepit to be built soon?... lol! Tired but happy.
The sqftjourney web site is going to have to wait until fall for extensive
additions and so on.

bill missen.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Davidoff" <sdavidof@optonline.net>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: Corn, beans and squash


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| Hi Laura,
|
| You should space the corn about a foot apart, and try to grow it in a
| block shape, instead of a long row. The corn will pollinate much better.
| In between the rows of corn sow the bean seeds and squash seeds. A good
| ratio for sowing would be for every four corn plants sow one bean seed
| and one squash seed. 4-1-1 : 4 corn, 1 bean, 1 squash. You can sow the
| bean and squash seeds anywhere in the soil inside the block of corn. The
| vines will find the closest stalk and climb up them as they grow.
|
| I am growing my first Three Sisters gardens this year too. There are as
| many different ways to sow a Three Sisters garden as there are
| combinations of corn, bean, and squash. There is no right way or wrong
| way. The only essential needs are fertile soil, adequate water, and
| sunshine. To achieve a good soil dig in some compost, bagged composted
| manure, or peat moss before you sow the seeds. Water the patch well each
| week, you don't want it soggy, but it shouldn't dry out either.
|
| I have made two Three Sister Gardens, both are very different. My first
| one is sown in a block. I have a novelty 15 foot corn, scarlet runner
| beans, and some jack be little pumpkins. My second one is a large sized
| garden behind my garage. I actually excavated a low hill to make it and
| it and it is now  minimally six inches below the original soil surface.
| I dug the soil well and have hilled it into eight mounds, each about
| three feet across and a couple of feet high. I spread grass clippings
| soil around the mounds for a mulch.. This will give me something to walk
| on and will help conserve moisture in the bed. All the hills are all
| sown with assorted, decorative gourds, edible gourds, and Cinderella
| pumpkins. I just sowed them two weeks, a few days later I sowed the
| mounds with corn, about six to eight stalks for each mound, and I sowed
| some seeds for pole beans at the same time, probably about four or five
| seeds per mound.
|
| Good luck with your Three Sisters Garden. I am sure for both of us it
| will be just wonderful and a great learning experience. If it works out
| I could grow a different one each year and begin a tradition.
|
|           Trudi
|
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