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With the snow falling, I am thinkning about March, when I prune the apple trees, and I am already buying seeds for the garden.
I have a question. I have never planted this way, but have read about it this winter. The three sisters consist of corn,green beans and squash.
Now the climbing gr beans climb unto the corn, and squash is at its feet.
They all help each other with the nitrigent in the soil. I am going to put horse manure down first before I till- is that ok?
What kind of squash is the best? I have not cooked any dishes with squash, and if there are good dairy free recipes, I would love to try this summer. Espically Native dished.
We have our garden curved around our apple trees, fenced in pretty good, or the deers eat it all.
Do the apple trees help as well?
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Can someone tell me if I plant pumpkins instead of squash, will it do the same thing for the corn and climbing green beans?
Try it, should work. I do have some extra Cherokee Trial of Tears green beans if you want to pay postage. I grew several pounds of them and would pass some of them on to someone that will grow them in the traditional ways.
I would gladly grow them. I have been reading on line about bringing the traditonal foods back because of the high diabetis rate and everything else. I will and have to eat more tradional. I am severly Lactose Intolerant, and I have to eat different. I found from genealogy my great gradfathers sister Nellie, at 17 died from intestinal problems. I can imagine the painshe went through. She would have been a quarter Blackfoot.
I will email you with my home address and let me know via your address so I can pay you.
Let me know if I need to do anything different with these versus reg. green beans.
These beans like to climb corn or anything else so don’t stand to close for very long! They taste sweet but will get stringy if you let them get to big, so use them early. For eating they taste better anyway. The pods are green but will turn purple the older they get. The bean inside is black but when cooked turned back normal color. They have the prettiest blue to purple blossoms.
I am looking very forward to planting and harvesting what they yield. I want to eat more healthy and more what they ate. I have to being I can not have any diary. I just was sick again this week from a herbal diet capsule I was taking that had milk in it. I can not lose weight and do physical exercise because of my bad back, and knee. So I am trying different things to burn the calories. I do not want diabetis, my mother and dads father both had that.
Anyway, thats why I am trying to find all the foods they had consumed. I think their sweet foods were maple syrup (did they make that?) and for sure honey.
Would love to have more input and maybe find a great cook book with those foods and recipes.
String a tight rope across and above your garden, birds will sit on it and watch for bugs. Several ropes (or wire) would be better. I do this when I grow tobacco. The tomato worms you have trouble with are actually tobacco worms; birds love them and will help keep other bugs under control too. My dog keeps the rabbits and deer away from the garden.
We have the apple trees right in the garden. I would be afriad the birds would get after the apples. Or is there a trick to stop them from going after the apples? Cause I will string the rope/wire up. We dont have a dog to get after the deers. We have a tall fence around the garden, so they are pretty pertected. When we have the strawberries, we have old windown screens over the top, and thats how we got so many berries last year.
For the fertilizer, I am going to put down older horse manure and then till it under. Does that sound pretty good?
What are some of your gardening tips?
To do the three sisters, there’s a trick to the timing. I think you’re supposed to put in the corn first. When it’s a foot tall you put in the beans, maybe the squash then too. I saw this online somewhere and I knew it was right, ’cause I tried putting them all in together at the same time and the beans engulfed the corn before it could get going.
How big of a vine does the pumpkin grow? I wonder if it might be too big?
Is your garden in front of the apple tree, relative to the sun? My garden is defunct till I cut down some trees. I don’t get enough light here.
My mom gave me a Vita Mix. It’s basicallly the same machine that Montel Williams sells. You can make a lot of smoothies with veggies you can’t taste. For breakfast I make one with half a banana, an orange or some pineapple, tofu, half a cup of juice or soy milk or whatever, a little ice and a couple of handfuls of spinach. The spinach makes the drink bright green, but you can’t taste it at all. There are other combinations like that that let you eat large quantities of veggies but you really can’t taste that you’re eating them. You just taste the fruit.
You might want to buy some squash and see which you like. I like acorn squash. I’ll roast it a good while in a slow oven, 300 degrees. It’s good when it roasts so long the juice starts to run from it, thick like a syrup. Make sure to put a pan on the rack underneath to catch that. Takes 1 1/2 to 2 hours. It’s so much soluble fiber it’s sure to be great for your digestion. And you’ll be full as a tick, but even if you eat the whole thing, you’ve only consumed a couple hundred calories, zero fat. Not sure how it is on the glycemic index, but I have a hunch it’s good.
Well, I’m hungry! My mother used to fix squash that way. You would have to keep the squash from climbing the corn; it would be too much weight. Linda, I had emailed you but it may have got spammed or something. Are you planting this year, do you need any of the beans.
Felicia, sounds like my sweet potatoes and peanuts are out of luck. Would horse manure work to give the ground more strnegth? I have sandy soil. No wonder last year our sweet potatoes looked like carrots. *sad* I love those things. I have a friend who is miami and he is going to plant peanuts in the sandy soil this spring. I will have to see how they do.
And last year we did not put manure on the garden.
I tried growing butternut squash last summer but not the three sisters way, since I don’t really have the room for corn. The butternut keeps really well – I still have a few in the pantry now – and is easy to peel since it’s smooth. I cut it into about 1 inch pieces, stir in a bowl with a little olive oil, and roast on a baking sheet until soft and a little caramelized – takes 1/2 an hour to an hour, depending on how hot you have the oven. More work, but less time. Delicata is really delicious too, but doesn’t keep quite as well. You can just saute it.
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