Companion planting what the Iroquois valued as the sustainers of life: beans, corn, and squash. Watch the video and learn how to plant them in a raised bed. The tools I use are from Radius Garden, click the link to get your own!
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your video is beautifully done, thankyou!
I always love these video updates. Great production and gardening tips. Thanks!
Thank You for sharing. That is some very valuable information. Have you heard of or considered trying a no till method? There are many benefits that accompany it. For one you don't disturb all of the beneficial organisms that if left alone will basically till the soil for you. They also produce glomulin which is a natural form of storing carbon as well as making enzymes that help maintain soil health.
AS always another great video, I'll get started on this method right away. Thanks again Patti.
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I would like to know what books you would suggest to read.. i want to do all organic.. I would like to have a organic growing book that would be very througho… I will likely be in western washington if that matters any
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She's cute.
great… 🙂
GardenGirl – is goat poop a good fertilizer like rabbit poop, or will it burn the roots?
Hi garden girl
I yhink if you mix the soil you will kill bacteria that dont like oxigen that live inside
What you think
Patty, you have a gr8 tv persona. you look gr8, your voice is perfect (not too fast or slow not too high pitched, nice and relaxed) and you explain things clearly!!!! Enjoyed watching you!
I love your Videos, Ms Patti. I'm really keen on working on our garden project here in the Philippines ~ 😀
Great video Patty. I'm passing this one on like many others. Thanks
what kind of beans, vine or bush, what kind of squash winter or summer ?
@zcrazyhorse4me you plant pole beans (a vine, kentucky wonder is what we got), and i think that any squash/gourd will do… some people plant pumpkins, so i would guess a summer. hope this helps
Dear Patti, you should pitch this to HGTV or to OWN or someone… this is a big movement but people just don't know how to… a great TV show could come of this that could make a lot of money
what about growing you plants from the seed you seed the year before if you trying to honor the ancestry of agriculture
@PunxsutawneyPhyl They are but don't feed them anything with weed seed in it or you will have it growing in your garden left and right. I like German angoran rabbits. They produce fertilizer by eating your weeds(before they go to seed), they also make wool that that is 7 times warmer than sheep wool, and they are larger rabbits that you can eat. All in all there is no waste with these at all.
Good job on your video I liked it very much!
she is too slow and boring
If people try this at home, it would be better the start with a staggered planting of seeds directly into the garden. Plant corn first, wait until you see sprouts, then plant pole beans and again wait until you see sprouts, then plant the squash. Rabbit manure is great to put directly onto the garden (it's not a hot manure), but it could attract mating rabbits who love pole bean sprouts. If you use rabbit manure or have lots of wild rabbits, put up a physical barrier until the vines mature.
Can you use peas instead of beans? I mean, I know they'll grow the same way, but do peas fix nitrogen like beans do?
she is gorgeous 🙂
start the corn first in the middle of a mound of compost and dirt… let it go a couple weeks and then finally the beans and then sqash around the outside perimeter…. if planted all at the same time.. ur beans will gang bang ur corn lol…..
Turning the leaves and old vines and stuff into the soil is not a good idea. True, it will eventually add nutrients to the soil but until it fully composts it will rob nutrients from the soil. Also it contributes to virus and fungal disease as well as allows the eggs from last years pests to stay and eat this years crop as well.
nature is always in balance.
Rabbit poop
worms would take care of the viral/fungal disease, if there's a healthy amount of them in the soil. no-dig allows planting straight into mulch which includes leaves. if its proven successful (unless its very, very compact soil), then should be fine, no?
Worms do not get rid of viruses or fungus. You can do it the lazy way and leave that stuff there before tilling it in, but I would pull them all out and compost them fully before adding it back to the soil. Composting causes the temperature to rise high enough that the stuff thats bad for the garden will all die.
Can you plant sweet corn or does it have to be the flint or flour corn?
last year I did squash in raised mounds and threw a couple seeds on flat ground just to see how it worked out. The flat ground worked better? Extremely wet environment with the natural soil being almost pure red clay. I put store soil in and at first it worked wonderfully but I think I didn't dig deep enough and eventually got root rot. This time I've transplanted good soil at least a foot deep. We'll see how it goes, but why did the flat ground work better last time?
Right now I've got brassicas and lettuce in shallow trenches. Despite living in the second rainiest city in america I find my plants do best in such trenches which collect the water. I find that despite being able to depend on a weekly downpour they still want more water. I don't get it. I do often end up with a thin layer of clay washing on top of my good soil. Does it block the water?
Want to do full three sisters this time but turning trenches into mounds means more soil cost.
i keep experimenting with companion planting every year with flowers and herbs around vegetables! always shocked by what works and doesn't! i learned this three sisters from an anthropology class emphasized on MAYAN agriculture, Mayans were the first known to start horticulture and agriculture. i will be doing this today or tomorrow in my urban garden.
still native Americans "Squanto" etc were not the first to come up with this complex protein combination of growing, it definitely originated in the Mayan culture, being much older than native Americans.
I am doing a couple of three sister projects here in Toronto
So true. The advice about the soil isn't so great. Like nature does in forests, it is better to leave the soil alone and just add amendments to the top and maybe wood chips and then plant.
These ideas are perfect! The techniques you just shown us is practically one of the most effective ways on how to properly plant vegetables in a raised garden. Companion planting is really a beneficial gardening works.
TFS!! Great video!!
This will be super helpful when I start my garden this month! I also found this cool chart that shows all the different combinations for veggies: http://www.saferbrand.com/blog/buddy-companion-planting-vegetables/