This is my January posting for “You Can Grow That”. Check out the other contributions over at You Can Grow That.
Six Four Words of Wisdom for January and New Gardeners:
Grow What You Want (to Eat)
Simple, yes? Ha! I didn’t take my own advice in the beginning and went a little crazy planting veggies that never darkened the dining room table. So take my wisdom with a pound of compost and have at it in the garden. In all honesty, here’s a good place to start, especially if you’re gardening with children like I am.
If you’re starting from scratch and the thought of making raised beds makes you look longingly at your couch (ok, maybe that’s just me), try a Three Sister’s Garden. A Three Sister’s Garden is a garden planted using 3 particular seeds: corn, beans, squash. The corn provides needed growing height for the beans while the squash winds it’s way around the corn providing a natural mulch in the form of it’s big leaves. This particular planting is a legacy from the Native American nations, according to Renee’s Garden Seed.
Here are our 3 choices for our Three Sister’s Garden for this year. Thankfully, the Wonder Kids will eat their weight in corn and pole beans. Sweet Hubby and I will devour the squash.
In my neck of the woods, you can’t forget the Cousins. Yes, the Cousins. These can be other veggies that are fairly simple to grow or that you just want to try. Don’t plant them with the Three Sisters but nearby them (just far enough apart to not be Kissing Cousins). Here are some examples of our Cousins. I’m hoping to entice the Wonder Kids to eat more tomatoes by growing a variety of colorful cherry and grape tomatoes. Plus, Sweet Hubby has requested a good tomato for sandwiches. And sunflowers. Always sunflowers! The bees love them and we need the bees to make the garden grow.
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