Corn Beans and Squash

Our patch of the Three Sisters: Corn, Beans and Squash has grown quicky.

This is the day of planting April 21st 2012

The soil was double dug and compost added

Ysidro and Jennifer planting

We did spread a couple of loads of horse manure on this site last October in the hope that through the winter the manure would break down and be ready for planting by May. The winter was so dry that there was hardly any noticable decomposition. The best option of digging ridges into the Nature Prepared soil was denighed us so the next best plan seemed to be double digging then adding compost to create the ridges.

May 5th  Kim watering

May 26th  Yoko watering

Perhaps next year we will be able to utilize water pumped from under the church building to water our Corn Beans and Squash.


June 9th  Angelina watering

Many thanks to the regular watering crew. This area is hand watered and a dedicated team of garden participants has done and excellent job of watering.

Pumpkins on July 14th

Finally some photos of  Gabe, Joe and Elsie with harvested pumpkins on July 28th.