3 Sisters Harvest...
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Its autumn in Tasmania and time to harvest our 3 sisters patch...will at least 2 of the 3!
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Been a while. Good to see you are OK.
Like your videos always something to learn cheers from Ipswich
Greeting from South Taz ✌️ Feels like it's been a while 😉 Good to see all is well!
South tas, nice me too.
Good to see you.
Did the same his year myself. Had a major problem with corn germination. But my biggest problem was rats, they decimated everything.
Just started trying homesteading 3 months ago and learning so much. Your videos are quite informative, provide good advice and are nice to watch. Keep up the awesome work mate
Thanks love your videos.
Yep, i didnt get a single pumpkin. It was wet and too cool :(
Thanks for the vid! I love watching your content.
Love your videos, thanks so much.
We appreciate your experience and thoughtfulness , it really make a difference with how we use our veggie patch , thank you
Good to see you back. 🙂
I always love your honest & well reasoned thoughts on things :))
Great video thanks again for the content!
Purple Bush beans are easier to spot in a 3 sisters garden also we use Silvermine White Corn which grows to 3.5 metres tall and gives the pumpkins more room to climb
Good to see you and Elizabeth 😊
Yes, my pumpkins did not do well this season either like they have previously...small suburban plot too. Melbourne Victoria. My tomatoes though late, produced heaps on 2 main bushes. Was giving them away often.
Trying 3 sisters for the first time... hoping for some success 😊
Howdy. Perfect video. I am actually about to do exactly like this but because i need a temporary hedge every year. Might as well eat some of it in the fall!
I am diggin the channel, we have the same soil..
Hello from near south coast of WA. My pumpkins didn't do that well this year either. I don't think our summer was long enough.
Big issues with mice and rats here this year. They really seemed to like my tomatoes.
Thanks for sharing. With regards to the 3 sisters system. In theory it is wonderful and dare I say it, romantic. I have yet to hear that it works in practice. I think that planting so close doesn’t do the plant a lot of good. The beans don’t have time enough for their nitrogen fixing nodules to do this year’s crop much good.
Best thing about the three sister system is the corn needs lots of nitrogen and the beans resupply nitrogen to the garden. It's worth doing it even if you leave the beans on the plant and just take the corn and squash. But I plant pole beans so I get them green and easier to find. Unless I am using for seeds for next year. I'm new to your page but I like your videos.
Were in Canberra and we follow the 3 sisters garden with potato crop, we just drop the potatoes on the ground and cut down the three sisters on top of them and the composting material keeps the potato's warm enough to grow through frosty winters and we just top it up from time to time with compost materials and the potatoes grow great
Hi John, are those coloured corn cobs in need of nixmatilisation prior to eating? Or is it digestible without lye treatment?
Being an old variety I suspect it would benefit from nixmatilisation.
Usually the beans are much easier to harvest since it's more traditional to use taller, sturdier corn varieties. I think painted mountain is still your best option because of your climate, though. You can try using runner beans instead, which are better about putting their beans up higher since they tend to flower later. If you want the squash to do well, you have to space the corn out more. Usually you just get one 1-2lb squash per plant if you want it just as a groundcover and are going mostly for corn. If you get germination issues, you have to transplant the squash or else you won't have a groundcover.
Keep in mind that all three of these crops are heavy feeders, so they're not good choices for newly broken ground. Pumpkins especially need a lot of nitrogen. Traditionally the crops would be fed with dead fish or other fertilizers. Also, there are certain types of beans that do well with corn, so if you want to try the Three Sisters again at some point look for "cornfield bean" varieties. Having said all that, rotation usually does just as well as multi-cropping, and it's a whole lot easier.