There actually is a Native American tradition spanning I think from modern day Mexico all the way to the Great Lakes called Three Sisters to grow maize, beans and pumpkins simultaneously on the same ground. This is good in many regards: nutrients, the way they use the soil (one has deep roots, one shallow, one in between) and above (pumpkins can use the others to climb), aesthetics, against insects, …
I read about it in Braiding Sweetgrass. Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk
TIL. I thought they were just related in the way cabbage and broccoli are related, not that summer squash is literally just an immature gourd. Dunno how this knowledge escaped me when I ate a stupid amount of summer squash as a kid.
I’m not a native speaker and I don’t know the difference honestly. I read the book in English and I think it said squash and just remembered it in my native language. Pumpkin is what I was taught in school
There actually is a Native American tradition spanning I think from modern day Mexico all the way to the Great Lakes called Three Sisters to grow maize, beans and pumpkins simultaneously on the same ground. This is good in many regards: nutrients, the way they use the soil (one has deep roots, one shallow, one in between) and above (pumpkins can use the others to climb), aesthetics, against insects, …
I read about it in Braiding Sweetgrass. Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk
It was pumpkins? I have always been taught squash. Or is this a calabaza = squash and pumpkin translation issue maybe?
Pumpkins are a subset of squash. Likely works for any of them.
TIL. I thought they were just related in the way cabbage and broccoli are related, not that summer squash is literally just an immature gourd. Dunno how this knowledge escaped me when I ate a stupid amount of summer squash as a kid.
I’m not a native speaker and I don’t know the difference honestly. I read the book in English and I think it said squash and just remembered it in my native language. Pumpkin is what I was taught in school
Flicking the bean with a cob of corn in your butt is pretty nice too.
I’m not sure what you’d use the pumpkin for in this case though.
Neat.