TanksHill
Super Self-Sufficient
Wannabefree, do you know if that money tree of yours will grow in my area? If so can I have some seeds?? Or a graft?
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that's what i was talking about. i'm goin to plant mine in hills with 4 corn, 4 beans, and 1 pumpkin seed per hill.AnnaRaven said:My understanding is that corn does well in blocks, which takes less space than rows and is higher productivity for a small garden. Native Americans planted "three sisters" which was corn, beans and squash, together. beans used the corn as a pole and the squash acted as a mulch.farmerlor said:Oh hon, I have almost an acre in garden it's just that the tomatoes are my number one priority and if there's any extra space I'm gonna grab it for more tomatoes or more potatoes. It's just that a stalk of corn takes about 3 square feet of space and I can get five ears out of that. In that same amount of space I can get about a bushel of tomatoes or a little over 5 pounds of potatoes. The numbers say that corn just isn't going to be a priority for me and it's certainly not a priority on the nutrition scale but the fam does like it fresh so I may plant just a couple of rows. I can't even justify the space it take to grow the peppers I NEED for my salsa so I toss them in containers. LOL!ohiogoatgirl said:farmerlor: if you don't have much space then you could plant your corn and then when its about knee high you can plant beans or peas or cucumbers or lots of different things. then you get corn and whatever other veggie from the same space. and you can plant pumpkins or squash to grow along the ground and act as a living mulch so you get three crops from one space and with less weeding!
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Here's an article on Three Sisters planting. Just another idea.
Yep - I saw that you posted that, after I'd already responded. Sorry.ohiogoatgirl said:that's what i was talking about. i'm goin to plant mine in hills with 4 corn, 4 beans, and 1 pumpkin seed per hill.AnnaRaven said:My understanding is that corn does well in blocks, which takes less space than rows and is higher productivity for a small garden. Native Americans planted "three sisters" which was corn, beans and squash, together. beans used the corn as a pole and the squash acted as a mulch.farmerlor said:Oh hon, I have almost an acre in garden it's just that the tomatoes are my number one priority and if there's any extra space I'm gonna grab it for more tomatoes or more potatoes. It's just that a stalk of corn takes about 3 square feet of space and I can get five ears out of that. In that same amount of space I can get about a bushel of tomatoes or a little over 5 pounds of potatoes. The numbers say that corn just isn't going to be a priority for me and it's certainly not a priority on the nutrition scale but the fam does like it fresh so I may plant just a couple of rows. I can't even justify the space it take to grow the peppers I NEED for my salsa so I toss them in containers. LOL!
Here's an article on Three Sisters planting. Just another idea.
PM me your address and we'll seeTanksHill said:Wannabefree, do you know if that money tree of yours will grow in my area? If so can I have some seeds?? Or a graft?
thanks,
g
She pickled hers, ate a lot fresh and fed 'em to her sheep. I'd ask her for a recipe but she tends to make things up as she goes and probably won't remember. I just ate mine!TanksHill said:Hen, last year I grew two just enormous ground cherries in two different spots. I couldn't figure out when to pick. Wifezilla kindly explained "When the fall on the ground" well duh on me!!! The problem was that I would have cookie sheets full of berries but only a few at a time would be yellow/ripe enough to eat. So that's what I did. I ate like 4 berries a day until the sheet was bare.
Do you or your friend have any suggestions??? How do yo use them if they all ripen at different times?
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