Three Sisters (agriculture)
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three-sisters-agriculture-185-2022447
title:
Three Sisters (agriculture)
text:
The Three Sisters are the three main agricultural crops of various indigenous people of Central and North America: squash, maize ("corn"), and climbing beans. In a technique known as companion planting, the maize and beans are often planted together in mounds formed by hilling soil around the base of the plants each year; squash is typically planted between the mounds. The cornstalk serves as a trellis for climbing beans, the beans fix nitrogen in their root nodules and stabilize the maize in hi
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Agricultural technique of Indigenous people in the Americas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)
date created:
2004-04-27T04:43:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T13:29:34Z
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