What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast and I walk to my

seed shed right now to check on what is known as the Three Sisters. This is a time-honored and really

well-respected planting combination. Many, many of you ask me for combination planting ideas and it's hard to say because there's a couple

different pieces of logic behind combination planting some I subscribe to and some I definitely don't but the three sisters is one that I certainly do subscribe to

because each of these three plants have an interplay with one another that just makes complete sense.

Now let's talk about them.

Many of you already know this, but with three sisters,

you're looking at squash, beans, and corn.

Now, let's take these one by one and kind of build this up, right?

Okay, let's first talk about squash.

Squash is a low-growing sprawling plant that generally is a pretty heavy feeder, right?

They like to suck up a bunch of nutrients. So what is squash providing?

Squash is providing a shade over a patch of ground.

Okay, so that's kind of what we have for our squash.

Next we have beans.

Beans are a nitrogen fixer, so they're taking nitrogen from the air and putting it into the ground near their root zone and

the squash might actually like that right squash has to put out a lot of vegetative growth and that's what nitrogen is typically used for in plants and so they kind of play with each other there right?

Also the squash protecting the ground actually helps the beans shallow sensitive root system

from drying out. So now we have an interplay of two benefits, one from squash to beans and one from

beans to squash. But these beans, let's call them

pole beans in this example, well how are they going to climb and that's where we get to

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