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Bookmark or Share- How to Protect Your Garden from Wind - Dave's GardenThe “three sisters” method of growing corn, beans, and squash together is another example of how plants can benefit from each other: the corn provides the trellis for the beans, but the corn is also made less spindly in the wind because of the bushy squash plant and the bean shoots. Even just planting at the optimum distance from other ...
- Popcorn: Our Beloved Snack has an Interesting History - Dave's GardenThey called corn, beans and squash the Three Sisters and these people could exist for long periods of time on just those foods. About 2500 years ago, the grain we call corn made its way into what is now the Southwest U.S. and sometime later, further east.
- Tomatoes & Peppers:Eva Purple Ball - Dave's GardenAside from the Juliet, these tomatoes are all new to me. My favorites to date, though, would be Rose and Brandy Boy, I think, with top notes going to Southern Night (black), Jaunne Flammee (neon orange large cherry with a blushing star in the center), Black Cherry, Purple Price, and 2 virtual unknowns - the NJ Contest Winner from 2004, and a tomato I picked up at a roadside stand in RI.
- The Three Sisters - Dave's GardenThe beans used in a three sisters planting were the climbing types, as opposed to the bush beans developed by native farmers of the desert Southwest. Both the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris , and the Tepary bean, Phaseolus acutifolius , were climbing varieties domesticated in ancient Mesoamerica.
- Southern Exposure Seed Exchange - Dave's GardenLOVE this seed company. Great source of heirloom seeds as well as a great information resource. They are my prime source for seeds for our school garden. For example, they not only have heirloom corn, beans & squash for a Three Sisters Garden, they also offer multiple varieties of rice, cotton, and other culturally important crops in small ...
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