Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, and her daughter Ale, check up on the Three Sisters Garden in a raised bed.
Companion planting what the Iroquois(and other Native American Nations) valued as the sustainers of life: beans, corn, and squash. Watch the video and learn how to plant them in a raised bed.
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Patti Moreno: I dunno!
Ale: It’s a cool lookinh weed.
Patti Moreno: Hi! I am Patti Moreno the Garden Girl and I am giving you a little update on my Three Sisters Garden. I planted it about two weeks ago. Did you realize that I planted a Three Sisters Garden here?
Ale: No, I don’t even know what Three Sisters is?
Patti Moreno: Okay the Three Sisters Garden is an Iroquois practice from the Iroquois Native Americans.
Ale: Oh, yeah, like me and Dad saw in the museam.
Patti Moreno: Exactly, they used to grow their corn in the middle and their beans around it and the beans would grow up the corn stalk and the beans would actually help the corn stalk to be more rigid. So in the wind —
Ale: It was like, if the wind was blowing they would not fall down.
Patti Moreno: Exactly and then the beans give nitrogen to the soil and corn needs nitrogen to grow. So, that helps and then the squash which I planted a bunch of different varieties of, the squash covers the ground since it’s a vine and doesn’t allow any sunlight in which keeps the weeds down and often keeps the moisture in because it’s not heating up and the water isn’t evaporating.
Ale: Yeah, as I was looking it was like and if there were no weeds and I was like, how do you do then that?
Patti Moreno: Exactly.
Ale: Yeah.
Patti Moreno: I am Patti Moreno the Garden Girl.
Ale: Thanks for watching.
30 Comments
superb 😉 5*
You are both adorable!
i was looking into companion planting for next season… thanks for sharing;-]
I am going to have to give that a try next year. What a great idea and a space saver!
Yup I have a 3 sisters patch 🙂 Hop you update and show us how its growing! 🙂
Great
OOO so that is probably why my corn just died——-lack of nitrogen…I had not realized nitrogen was lacking, i don't know why. Nice info about the Iroquois practice i shall try this next year. Thank you for the video
very good content, but next time, if possible get a key light on your face, that hat cast a deep shadow and so looks a bit odd, but very good job overall. Keep up the good work.
I love your videos.
I agree with other comment. You need your own TV show.
I have learn so much from your videos.
HGTV: THis would be a winner!
superbe video bravooo
Thanks, Great vd.Got to do this next year. I have the space for it. God bless you.
I need to know the basics. How to plant when to water etc.
We all need to be growing what we can these days.
Excellent video, you & you're daughter are so cute together 🙂
you & your daughter are so cute! very well edited video & great quality 🙂
O_O
Really amazing video! O_O like the editing!!
You guys are so cute ^^
Pretty Awesome!
Never new about Three Sisters Gardens!
My Native heritage is a bit further south than the Iroquois….but it's an awesome tip FOR the south with the heat and summer winds…
Nice work!
Planning on using this one!
Best Blessings!
Donna Miller
🙂 awesome video
Very educational and I love the bonding between mother and daughter through gardening
cool
You go Girl great stuff!
God, I love that little girl. Just so clear and lively. She is so much better on camera than most people lol
Cute and smart daughter! Maybe she'll join the Garden Girl team one day.
Looking Good! Thanks for the update, love your videos.
Florida Gardener
I will teach this to my anthropology class.A long with data on the calendar and representative government too.
Quick question Patti-when you initially planted your Three Sisters Bed, you planted four corn plants per mound. Did you thin it out when they got bigger or let all four plants grow? I'm going to try a Three Sisters Bed (4'x8') this spring. I was planning on one corn per square but I'm wondering if I can plant them closer? Thanks.
Cute and informative! I learned something
About the traditional planting techniques for the three sisters is that the corn was planted first, then weeks later the beans were planted, the squash… They will only grow together in the proper way like this…otherwise it is all out of balance.
It is important not to simplify the complexities of Native AMerican tradition and knowledge…
I love your videos! Keep em coming!
Very nice Patti; love watching you on IAPTV "Growing a greener world".
i love planting and those video learned me how to plant and thank you
how did 2009 go so fast-