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Post by gridgardener on May 16, 2015 17:49:56 GMT -5
have any of you planted the three sister planting combo using squash,corn and beans.
if so list which corn,beans and squash varieties you used and how spaced them.
list which other companion planting veg combos you have used
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Post by kimmsrđź•Š on May 17, 2015 5:58:34 GMT -5
While I have not planted the three sisters myself I have talked with many who did and I have determined that it is most successful with the older plant varieties and not the newer hybrids. Some people have had good results, Heirloom varieties, while others not so much, hybrids. Keep in mind that the native Americans that did plant the three sisters did not have hybrids to work with.
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Post by brownrexx on May 17, 2015 7:25:51 GMT -5
I liked the idea due to it's historical significance but it didn't work out well and I have plenty of room so why crowd things?
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Post by lisaann on May 17, 2015 10:57:35 GMT -5
What you trying GMAN? I need some ideas.
Did you get rain yesterday evening? I got .59"
The horse race was a sloppy one, wasn't it?
We might get a triple crowner this year.
For those of you not familiar with Maryland, the second leg of the triple crown is here.
Next is Belmont.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 11:03:45 GMT -5
Grid, three sisters planting was to grow out a flour corn, a storage squash and likely a shelled bean. As an impenatreble mass.
It is not all that (or at least it has not been so for me) adaptable as way to crop sweet corn, green beans, and summer squash.
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Post by gridgardener on May 17, 2015 16:42:11 GMT -5
coppice you correct about original crop types used in three sisters.
I grown the three sister in it's original form and plant types ;and with modern bush squash and bush beans.
As for three sister being adaptable to sweet corn, summer squash and bush beans. I adapted it to that type of corn, bean
and squash 5 years ago and the garden writer Joy Larkcom did it years before I did; though, I have not seen her
planting diagram; I posted my version on several web sites several years ago.
I will post my planting diagram of three sisters using bush beans, bush squash and sweet corn when get chance on this thread.
ps kimmsr hybrids have nothing to due with success or failure with the three sisters; but spacing ,height, stem thickness of the corn varieties does matter,
as well as planting density of bean for climbing up corn and timing of bean plantings after the corn has been established.
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Post by lisaann on May 18, 2015 18:21:41 GMT -5
Gman,
I bet you are using the plan I gave you.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on May 18, 2015 18:44:04 GMT -5
It is my understanding that the beans were more of the pole variety using the corn stalk as the pole.
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Post by desertwoman on May 18, 2015 19:11:53 GMT -5
Definitely pole beans for Three Sisters.
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Post by lisaann on Jul 5, 2015 8:02:23 GMT -5
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 5, 2015 8:12:24 GMT -5
What is the multicolored Indian good for? The only exposure I have had to it is dried and hung on the door in the fall. Is this sweet corn? Or is it only used in recipes? What are rattlesnake beans?
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Post by tbird on Jul 5, 2015 9:54:00 GMT -5
no - my guess would be the kind to grind for tortillas. But - I don't think it's the best. is that kind called field corn? not sure of terminology. |
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Post by restless on Jul 6, 2015 9:34:29 GMT -5
I have not planted three sisters, but I tried a different kind of companion planting this year to try and hold off the cuke beetles:
In between my trellises of zucchino rampicante, japanese long cucumbers, and pickling cucumbers, I planted chamomile, nasturtium, and vegetable amaranth. I seem to be having less of a problem with the cucumber beetles this year. I did find a lot of beetles on the chamomile and amaranth. I still have some cucumber beetles on my cucumbers. But maybe not as many. In previous years, my cukes would have been dead by now from CMV.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 6, 2015 9:48:45 GMT -5
restless try the cucumber variety called County Fair. I got that recommendation from pepperhead212 and although the cuke beetles still attack the plants, they are resistant to bacterial wilt. I have had big cucumber harvests since I started planting only this variety. I buy it from Jung seeds about every other year.
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Post by restless on Jul 6, 2015 9:53:49 GMT -5
Thanks for the recommendation, brownrexx. I am using Diamant this year as my pickling cuke. It's resistant to CMV. My favorite cucumber for fresh eating is Japanese Long/Suyo Long. Nothing beats the taste of that variety for me. I have been having an unusually great year with respect to cucumbers. I'm kind of overrun with them at this point! I'll look into the County Fair variety for next season if I plant cucumbers again. (I usually only plant them every other year.)
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