Update

The three sister's method of gardening was put into practice in the garden yesterday.  This method involves the inter-cropping of corn, beans, and squash variety plants.  This method first originated in the Native American culture and has been applied in gardens around the globe since its discovery.    The corn is about knee high now, so it was time to plant the beans and the squash.  The beans end up using the stalks of corn for support and to vine around.  At the same time as they are climbing the stalk, they are injecting nitrogen back into the soil.  Beans are the perfect companion plant for corn, since the corn is sucking the nitrogen straight out of the soil, the beans can put it right back!  The squash or cucumbers or any type of plant like that, will create a ground cover holding more moisture in and keeping more bugs and weeds out.  We are not done with the whole corn field, but the process is in the works.