On today's Q&A, I'm going to give you my honest opinion on the Three Sisters Gardening Method.

I've seen this question pop up in several different places, and it's one of those things that I was super excited about doing as a beginning gardener.

Maybe not my first year, but when I actually decided to start growing corn.

And my results were quite

disappointing I thought I had done something wrong but I've seen from a lot of

people's comments that I'm not the only one so if you're not familiar with what

three sisters gardening is it's adapted from the supposed practice that the

Native Americans used where you grow corn

and then beside the corn you grow pole beans to climb up the corn and to offer nitrogen to the corn

as it's growing and then in between the corn and the beans you plant some kind of squash or pumpkin

and the purpose for that is that the leaves

of the squash and the pumpkin will shade that area so that it can cut down on any weeds that might

be growing around the corn and the beans. I think many of us love this idea, partly because

it's the ultimate companion planting, right? But it's also

a little bit of an idyllic version of gardening where we can hearken back to the people who first

farm the land that many of us live on here in the United States, North America, and we like to

get back to our roots. I know I have

part Native American and me, and so there were lots of reasons why I wanted to try this method.

But like I said, my experience was rather disappointing. What I found, and I did the one and only

time I did this, I did it with a large plot of area.

One thing I do see a lot of people making the mistake of,

and I do wanna bring this up

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