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Concerning your Three Sisters companion garden, (also known as a Wompanoag garden, which has many regional variations,) I’d like to point out that the nitrogen fixed by the bacteria growing around bean roots does not benefit the corn in season, but only after the beans die back. Sunflowers draw aphids away from cucurbits and produce airborne pheramones which aid corn growth. Squash shades the soil and retains moisture/reduces weeds. Growing pole beans this way inhibits the potential of both.
Kudos for following through on some efforts with sustainability in mind. I don’t mean to presume that you havn’t done so already, but you might be interested in watching a range of videos pertaining to additional members of the permaculture pantheon, (of which Masanobu Fukoka is one,) including: Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton, Paul Wheaton and Sepp Holtzer, just to name a few.
study buffalo bird woman. emilia hazelip. allow your land to heal from mowing. let it go fallow for years untill the soil is soft. make hills that are large enought to culture things like corn beans and squash. mulch thouroughly with wild grasses and invasive weeds in the areas that are left wild, which have to be larger than the areas with food production.
I am posting this comment in order to counter the spread of disinformation.
The hills shown here are very small and very strange, and seem to be little balls of straw and compost dumped on a ridiculously manicured lawn that has many of the grass pathogens and parasites that would make three sister’s cultivation very difficult. nothing shown in this video is legitimate or any form of beneficial. i am a native farmer goodmindseeds wordpress com
please come by
Concerning your Three Sisters companion garden, (also known as a Wompanoag garden, which has many regional variations,) I’d like to point out that the nitrogen fixed by the bacteria growing around bean roots does not benefit the corn in season, but only after the beans die back. Sunflowers draw aphids away from cucurbits and produce airborne pheramones which aid corn growth. Squash shades the soil and retains moisture/reduces weeds. Growing pole beans this way inhibits the potential of both.
CSVickers1984
January 15, 2012 at 10:29 pm
Kudos for following through on some efforts with sustainability in mind. I don’t mean to presume that you havn’t done so already, but you might be interested in watching a range of videos pertaining to additional members of the permaculture pantheon, (of which Masanobu Fukoka is one,) including: Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton, Paul Wheaton and Sepp Holtzer, just to name a few.
CSVickers1984
January 15, 2012 at 10:44 pm
yay for experiments
catfish222banjo
January 15, 2012 at 10:46 pm
Need harvest data.
broadwayFan28
January 15, 2012 at 11:39 pm
foo-koo-oh-kuh
MrPoopEpoop
January 16, 2012 at 12:35 am
study buffalo bird woman. emilia hazelip. allow your land to heal from mowing. let it go fallow for years untill the soil is soft. make hills that are large enought to culture things like corn beans and squash. mulch thouroughly with wild grasses and invasive weeds in the areas that are left wild, which have to be larger than the areas with food production.
goodmindseeds
January 16, 2012 at 12:37 am
I am posting this comment in order to counter the spread of disinformation.
The hills shown here are very small and very strange, and seem to be little balls of straw and compost dumped on a ridiculously manicured lawn that has many of the grass pathogens and parasites that would make three sister’s cultivation very difficult. nothing shown in this video is legitimate or any form of beneficial. i am a native farmer goodmindseeds wordpress com
please come by
goodmindseeds
January 16, 2012 at 1:01 am