Three sisters

wargarden2017 2/26/2023, 6:01 am

since previous thread skewed off in an weird direction.
I thought we could discuss mixed square planting
and companion planting in beds.

such as 2 bush bean plant and two sweet corn plants in 1 ft square
repeated in 16 squares in 4ft x4ft bed or 4ft x 8ft bed. using

mel suggested 4 early sweet corn plant per square foot in 4ft x 4ft bed
for total 64 ears it seemed work well for him. he also suggested the same
would work in 4ft x 8ft and give 128 ears.
but i hope planting beans and corn would be good match.

Soose 3/1/2023, 3:50 am

wargarden2017 wrote:since previous thread skewed off in an weird direction.
I thought we could discuss mixed square planting
and companion planting in beds.

such as 2 bush bean plant and two sweet corn plants in 1 ft square
repeated in 16 squares in 4ft x4ft bed or 4ft x 8ft bed. using

mel suggested 4 early sweet corn plant per square foot in 4ft x 4ft bed
for total 64 ears it seemed work well for him. he also suggested the same
would work in 4ft x 8ft and give 128 ears.
but i hope planting beans and corn would be good match.

Fascinating. I've not heard of this.
So you could theoretically do the Three Sisters?

OhioGardener 3/1/2023, 2:03 pm

Soose wrote:So you could theoretically do the Three Sisters?

Of course you could, it is just a form of companion planting. The question is, "Does it provide any benefit over standard planting?"

Meanwhile, there are a number of threads on this subject that you might want to explore rather than starting another one:

https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t592-three-sisters-planting

https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t22700-three-sisters-question?highlight=three+sisters

https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t14795-three-sisters-square-foot-garden?highlight=three+sisters

https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t7757-three-sisters-thursday?highlight=three+sisters

https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t21432-the-2017-attempt-at-3-sisters-4-sisters?highlight=three+sisters

**sanderson** 3/1/2023, 5:57 pm

OC, Thank you for posting the links.

I'm closing the topic now.

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