Three Sisters Garden Guide | Corn Beans Squash Companion Planting | Indigenous Method | Printable PDF

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The Three Sisters Garden Guide is the flagship of our new Quick-Grow Guide series -- a bigger, richer single-topic growing guide covering the traditional Indigenous companion-planting method of corn, pole beans, and squash grown together in mounds.

This 21-page PDF walks you through the whole system: the Indigenous history and ecological logic behind the method, how to choose the right corn (flint/dent/flour vs. sweet corn), why it has to be pole beans and vining squash (not bush varieties), building and spacing your mounds with a layout diagram, the staggered planting sequence that keeps corn from being pulled down by eager bean vines, ongoing care, the interplanting problems every grower eventually runs into (corn lodging, competition, raccoons), harvest and curing, and heirloom seed-saving basics -- plus two bonus recipes for using what you grow.

WHAT'S INSIDE - 21 pages
- The history and ecological logic of the Three Sisters method, credited to its Indigenous origins
- Choosing your corn, beans, and squash varieties (and the ones to avoid)
- Site, soil, and sun requirements
- Building the mounds, with a layout/spacing diagram
- The staggered planting sequence, step by step, with the reasoning behind it
- A dedicated Layout & Spacing Reference table
- Ongoing care as a system (watering, weeding, letting squash self-mulch)
- Common problems with interplanting -- corn lodging, competition, raccoon pressure
- A Fourth Sister? modern variations chapter (sunflowers, bee balm)
- Harvest sequence, curing, and storage for corn and squash
- Saving your own heirloom seed for next year
- 2 bonus recipes: Succotash, and Roasted Squash with Sage Butter
- Quick-Reference and Troubleshooting cheat sheets

WHO THIS IS FOR
Gardeners and homesteaders who want to grow more food in less space using a time-tested, low-input method -- and who want the real how-to, not just a diagram of three plants in a circle.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Add to cart and complete your purchase
2. Download your PDF instantly (Etsy: You > Purchases and reviews)
3. Print at home or at a copy shop, and start planning your mounds

PLEASE NOTE
Instant digital download -- no physical item is shipped. Because this is a digital file, all sales are final. For personal use only -- please don't resell or redistribute the files.