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Camp Internet's Global Gardening Studies are open to all Camp Expedition Teams. RAIN's Youth Technology Corps members are Expedition Team Leaders for Communities taking part.
Planting a Three Sisters Garden...
The
Three Sisters all work together.
Critters will find it harder to invade your school or homeschool garden
if you interplant corn, beans and squash.
The
corn stalk serves as a pole for the beans
The
beans help to add the nitrogen to the soil that the corn needs
The
squash provides a ground cover of shade that helps the soil retain
moisture
1.
In late May or early June, hoe up the ground and heap the earth
into piles about a foot high and about 20 inches across. The centers
of your mounds should be about four feet apart and should have flattened
tops.
2. First, in the center of each mound, plant five or six corn kernels
in a small circle.
3. After a week or two, when the corn has grown to be five inches
or so, plant seven or eight pole beans in a circle about six inches
away from the corn kernels.
4. A week later, at the edge of the mound about a foot away from
the beans, plant seven or eight squash or pumpkin seeds.
5. When the plants begin to grow, you will need to weed out all
but a few of the sturdiest of the corn plants from each mound. Also
keep the sturdiest of the bean and squash plants and weed out the
weaker ones.
6. As the corn and beans grow up, you want to make sure that the
beans are supported by cornstalks, wrapping around the corn. The
squash will crawl out between the mounds, around the corn and beans.
Planting a Three Sisters Garden...
The Three Sisters all work together.
Critters will find it harder to invade your school or homeschool garden if you interplant corn, beans and squash.
1.
In late May or early June, hoe up the ground and heap the earth
into piles about a foot high and about 20 inches across. The centers
of your mounds should be about four feet apart and should have flattened
tops.
2. First, in the center of each mound, plant five or six corn kernels
in a small circle.
3. After a week or two, when the corn has grown to be five inches
or so, plant seven or eight pole beans in a circle about six inches
away from the corn kernels.
4. A week later, at the edge of the mound about a foot away from
the beans, plant seven or eight squash or pumpkin seeds.
5. When the plants begin to grow, you will need to weed out all
but a few of the sturdiest of the corn plants from each mound. Also
keep the sturdiest of the bean and squash plants and weed out the
weaker ones.
6. As the corn and beans grow up, you want to make sure that the
beans are supported by cornstalks, wrapping around the corn. The
squash will crawl out between the mounds, around the corn and beans.