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Once the corn is at least 4" tall, plant the beans around the slopes of each corn mound.

If including sunflowers or bee balm, plant those on the north side of the garden.

On every other mound, alternate with squash instead of corn, planting squash in a triangle pattern at 4" spacing.

Plant the corn on the flat part at 6" spacing, see Figure 2.

You can plant your garden as soon as the night temperatures are consistently above 55☏, and not later than June 1.

Space mounds so their centers are 4' apart.

Build each mound so that it is 4" tall, and 18" diameter at the base, with a flat top that is about 10" across, see Figure 1.

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Soil should be rich in organic matter and free of stones and weeds.

Choose a spot that has at least 6 hours per day of direct sunlight.Very different in that it is not planted in mounds rather in a large square with the edges mounded up to keep any water in the planting area.This is where each Sister is planted staggered in small blocks.From the northern plains, used by the Hidatsa, Mandan and Arikara peoples who planted along the floodplain of the Missouri river.It is best suited to regions with wet summers.This method is the best known because it was the planting method that the Iroquois taught the early colonial settlers.

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But all of them plant the sisters in clusters on low, wide mounds, rather than a single row, and make sure they are planted in full sun. There are many variations on a Three Sisters garden layout. Garden Layout for the Three Sisters Planting This sister also supports the beans, lures birds away from the corn with their seeds and attracts insect pollinators. Sometimes a fourth sister is included: either Sunflower or Bee Balm. Winter squash or summer squash varieties, or a combination of both (squash vines can be directed to shade corn).

Shades the ground with its large leaves to provide a good growing environment for all the sisters and helps to prevent weeds.Plant your favorite sweet corn, dent corn, popcorn, or even a combination.Provides support for beans vines to climb upon.The beans will use the corn as support, so wait to plant the beans until the corn is about knee high.Make sure to inoculate your seeds with nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium bacteria, such as the Garden Combination Mix.Plant pole beans such as Blue Lake, Scarlet Runner, or Italian Snap, NOT bush beans.Deposit nitrogen from the air into the soil, in a form that the plants can use.The three sisters is a combination of these three plants working together: Companion Plants in the Three Sisters Method Watch our video where Tricia shows how easy it is to plant using the Three Sisters method. This is an idea that has been practiced for centuries, and most famously with the “Three Sisters” method. Companion planting is a useful gardening technique of growing certain veggies together to take advantage of their natural tendencies and relationships.