Post #46350
2025-12-09 19:56 UTC
There actually is a Native American tradition spanning I think from modern day Mexico all the way to the Great Lakes called Three Sisters to grow maize, beans and pumpkins simultaneously on the same ground. This is good in many regards: nutrients, the way they use the soil (one has deep roots, one shallow, one in between) and above (pumpkins can use the others to climb), aesthetics, against insects, …
I read about it in Braiding Sweetgrass. Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk
Replies (3)
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@Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2025-12-09 20:14
Neat.
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@SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world 2025-12-09 20:17
Flicking the bean with a cob of corn in your butt is pretty nice too. I’m not sure what you’d use the pumpkin for in this case though.
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@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2025-12-09 20:40
It was pumpkins? I have always been taught squash. Or is this a calabaza = squash and pumpkin translation issue maybe?