One of our garden beds ready for planting. The rock is heavy so we left it in place.
Our Jerusalem Artichoke patch.
This garden on the left has an outside clay oven.
This shows the beans growing up the corn stems.
Here the beans grow up a tripod of sticks on a mound. The pumpkins planted around the mound.
In these images you can see that we have used logs to contain our gardens. This enables us to add soil and mulch without it spreading.
The woodland Indians grew the three sister together. First the corn was planted. When the corn was up and still young the beans would be planted next to the corn plants. This served two purposes, the beans would climb the corn plants as both grew, and the beans would add nitrogen to the soil for the corn to feed on. The pumpkins/squash would be planted around the outside of the corn patch.
Interesting ideas, both saving space by the collective planting but also using the plants properties to benifit each other. It's suprising how much knoledge has been forgotten.
ReplyDeleteHi Murphy, very true about lost skills and knowledge. Someone suggested that our group adopt the logo "Keeping pioneer Skills Alive", so we have.
ReplyDeleteRegards, Le Loup.