Crop Circles!?!?!?

 What the heck is that???? Well it's the beginning of my " Three Sisters Planting". As I have started to blog about the garden, it was inevitable that social media was the next step. For a month or so I had been seeing posts about "Three Sisters Planting". From what I could gather it was companion gardening of 3 items. 

   Being  a rather organized type gardener and the fact I just got back into corn planting, there was no real interest. It was confusing at best as everyone had their own bastardized version of how to do this. Then  I saw a picture on a Facebook post and thought what the heck is that ?

  I looked it up and decided to make my own "What the heck is that? " or as it is more commonly known "Three Sisters Planting".

 This is what my "Three Sisters Planting" will look like in a few months, yeah right. It is actually an interesting  American Indian form of planting using corn, beans and butternut squash . All of these items can be stored over the winter. 

  Make a four foot mound of dirt and fortify it with ash and smelly fish bits. Or if you are all out of smelly fish bits some good organic compost will do. I did use fish emulsion as it is part of my repertoire. Plant corn seeds 10 " apart in a 2 ' circle. 

   When your corn reaches 5" you plant a few bean seeds around your corn plants. They will then use the corn as climbing support and draw nitrogen from the air to fortify the soil for the corn. Damn that was a mouthful. Very interesting concept though.

   A week later you plant 6 squash seeds around the perimeter of the circle. The large leaves will shade the base of the plants creating a mulch like effect and keep the weeds down. Not only that but It might look cool between my Teepees don't you think?