Three sisters

This was the second time we’ve experimented with a traditional three sisters companion plant garden. It was more substantial (60′ x 100′) than the first, and suffered less predation from deer and raccoons and skunks. Its productivity has kept me fed up to the present and beyond. The varieties planted: Ohio blue clarage dent corn, Seminole pumpkin, and Cherokee cornfield pole snap bean. I didn’t realize the blue clarage corn was blue and white instead of pure blue. I may switch to a bluer version, but I was highly impressed with the productivity of this variety.

July 24, 2018. Approaching the cornfield.

The beans growing up the corn.

The squash creeping beyond the corn patch.

One of the first harvests – July 24, 2018. There are other squash besides the Seminole. The Seminole was by far the most prolific.

The chickens don’t necessarily eat the corn husks, but it gives novelty to their routine.

This was THE final harvest. September 30. All green squashes (with the exception of the flat bluish one in the center) are Seminole pumpkins. I could have easily harvested three times the amount of beans in that container.

October 7, 2018. Cornfield no more.