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["Michele Stanton" <6ducks@gmail.com>]

Jerry,

Some folks at Cornell just published research on this.  They replicated what was known of the agricultural practices of the Iroquois in New York.

They found that the system we call ‘the three sisters’ was beneficial for the corn, producing greater yields, but lowered the yields of beans; notwithstanding, it may have produced a net gain if you consider that corn was the staple crop, not the beans.  Please contact me offline and I will send you the article.

 

With snow melting…

Michele in SW Ohio

 

From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of jerrydana5@aol.com
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Subject: [NAFEX] beans and corn, no, beans ON corn

 

 

My dad, who grew up on a farm, said they used to grow pole breans ON cornstalks.  They grew right up the stalks, and so they got a double crop from the dirt.  Anybody else heard of this?  I wonder about light availability for the beans and the soil requirements in terms of fertility. I have excellent soil as a result of horse manure, so my main question is light, and might this work?  Jerry in southern Indiana