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Re: Corn, beans and squash: Here's a pic of my new bed

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Trudi:  Your SOIL looks marvelous.  We had to do raised beds and build our
soil as we have silt for a few inches then hard red clay.  That is how I
found Mel's SFG method.  Has been fun.  Your garden is great.   ... Nickie
----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Davidoff <sdavidof@optonline.net>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 7:05 PM
Subject: Corn, beans and squash: Here's a pic of my new bed


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> Here's a link to a picture of the Three Sisters Garden bed I made behind
> my garage. There are nine mounds, each being about two feet high and
> about three feet across.
>
> I have sown them with assorted types of corn, I sowed about a half dozen
> corn seeds in each mound: Golden Bantam, Mini Decorative, and another I
> can't recall.  The squashes are all sorts of types, I have bushel
> gourds, birdhouse gourds, some ornamental mix, Rouge De Vif
> (sp?)pumpkin. some cukes, and maybe some luffas. I put in three gourd
> seeds per mound. The beans are a few scarlet runners, some purple podded
> pole beans, something called "tri color bean" (I have no idea what this
> is, they came as a bonus in a seed trade).
>
> As of yet I just see the beginnings of corn coming up, a few cukes have
> germinated and just one squash has come up. I have been having a very
> hard time with slugs this year and I probably will have to sow the
> squashes again.
>
> Here's the link:
>
> http://www.gardenweb.com/forums/load/gardgal/msg0616544514356.html
>
> I hope that you will all like it. Of course it's very non square foot.
> It is a half moon shape and has some sort of weird large structure I
> made for the vertical growers with sawed off tree limbs.
>
> I hope you all like it.
>
> Trudi
>
> PS.........on the same forum are eight pics of the perennial bed I made
> from my "winter sown" seedlings.
>
>
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