Sheesh… some of y’all really get down in the weeds of technicality!
@clarkinks … I love the thread. I grow corn, beans and squash as they all have there place in my diet and crop rotation. My diabetic father loves his squash fries, green beans, baked beans w/o sugar, and small amounts of sweet corn with butter! Lycopene, Beta-carotene, chlorophyll, soluble and insoluble fiber, Phyto-nutrients galore😍. He controls his diabetes by eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, avoiding processed foods, walking, working and helping others. No medication.
I tried growing squash in the corn patch. Once. What a mess.
We eat fresh corn until we bust and then we freeze a bunch. The small nub ears are left to dry until October and then they are picked and stored for winter chicken food. It helps their yolks keep the yellow-orange color.
I can and freeze quarts of green beans. I raise dry beans occasionally. I love the beauty and variety. They are like art to me.
Squash is such a nice vegetable/fruit to grow and store. Easy-peasy. Wonderful cover crop underneath newly planted trees. We are still eating kabochas from 2021. Again, the extras go to the chickens, pigs or cows.
My version of the Three Sisters is not an authentic horticultural representation of Native American tradition. It isn’t meant to be. It is however, a nod to their knowledge, resourcefulness and simplicity of life.
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