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May 11, 2021 2:24 AM
DrVenture420
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freshthrowaway1138
I've read that there was a "4th sister", the sunflower, that would be plant around the fields to protect them.
ChrisCorona
Wait, I thought from that old commercial I remember that they called it "maize."
JulieMP
I am Seneca!!! I have 2 older sisters too. This pic is my wallpaper. There is also a legend of the three sisters that personifies them.
calypso789
Companion planting. It's a gardening thing.
Bossco20
Corn lost her face
originalcharacterdonotsteal
Wish I had known this at the start of planting season. Maybe I'll try it next year.
GTimgur
I love these foods! Squash is #1.
ineedabreak
Braiding Sweetgrass is such a good book. Taught me all about this and more.
player112354
NearHereThere
In Anathem, it was called a 'tangle', That is all.
DrZev
US Mint made a coin about it: https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/native-american-dollar-coins/2009-three-sisters-agriculture
wheelerws2718
I tried this last year, more difficult than it sounds.
Cheomesh
All the beans I've grown have been more of a bush than a vine.
martineb72
Sounds like it would be hard to harvest them mechanically if they like that.
firehawkcultist
Today this is called permaculture. Though a lot things get mislabeled as it though too.
itzujones1
Yeah planted early,fucking weather!
ScoundrelPDX
Been there, done that, works great! (the gardening technique, that is)
DrewSf29
Forgot the best part: these three things go really well together culinarily as well on a dish called succotash
SherMattLockSmith
While beans do create nodules on their roots that fixes nitrogen in the soil, when they fruit and produce the beans they use up this (1)
SherMattLockSmith
(2) Nitrogen that has been stored up in the soil. They will only improve the soil quality if you cut down the plants before they fruit.
moderndayprodigalson
It’s all about the crop rotation maaaaan
Cheyannaak47
Yes, and we have the three sister soup. It's delicious!
Cheomesh
Agreed
J3lek
Dibs on the Beans sister!
NyQuilDaydream
I bet she can run you out from under the covers!
monimoomo
Sons 3rd grade class grew a 3 sisters garden on school grounds during Native American studies. Don’t know how well it’s held up since covid.
Mikadomea
Am i going insane or did i see this post yesterday at the same time?
rijstewafels
But then the fire nation attacked
goldenapple33501
So simple.....its complex !
Yesferatoo
I'd like to know if ALL Native Americans did this.
greenchair
Yes. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Babies born planting squash
Marokh
right out the womb he makes a touch down to plant the first squash. that's how you know a new chieftain is born!
phacemelter
Lol. No. Most plains tribes across the mid of the continent didn't even do agriculture.
mormacil
Most plains tribes only became plains tribes after contact with Europeans. European diseases wrecked local agricultural systems beforehand
tegfdd77
It’s too vast
realrealluckless
No. It is like saying "Europeans built flexible shallow draft boats and regularly made long distance trips for trading and 'other things'".
mormacil
So the British Isles? :P
Yesferatoo
You know, I thought that!
merbaby
I mean, that's a true statement. Not all Europeans, but a widespread practice that can't be easily narrowed down further. Same with this
Chaimgoldbergenstein
The point is that it's not technically a false statement, but it's broad to a very heavy degree.
RVME
....and "sophisticated white supremacists" called them savages.
Cheomesh
"Salvages", at the time. At least here in the mid-Atlantic.
mormacil
I mean China still calls westeners that... Imperialist does imperialist things. Has nothing to do with race.
phobosorbust
TBF, most accounts of Native cultures were taken after decades of apocalyptic pandemics and famine killed ~95% of the population...
Bardcrest
which tribe?
sarahCommunityPrincess
Thanks for not generalizing "native Americans"
Rignak
Slapahoe
EverNotRelevant
I think it was a pretty widespread practice.
Username383
I know that this is common knowledge by smaller farmers in brazil. So maybe around there at least
ComcastLover
Cornbeanosquashe
DrVenture420
I wish I knew.
1doberman
Fukauwee.
KiltedinSeattle
F-Troop reference. I get it.
zafner
Nobody seems to know. The information seems to have been heavily diluted.
Josiahkf
Very odd that rich history seems lost here, I wonder what happened to these industrious people to cause such a thing
phacemelter
Probably has to do with lack of written language.
BigDaddysMeatWagon
As a native american: we ded. Like mostly.
Cheomesh
The Yaocomaco here in St. Mary's, MD did this.
NyQuilDaydream
The Na'vi
EniChaos
hey! listen!
Jonmbram
They knew about nitrogen?
syntheticgod8
Evolution is blind
tegfdd77
Maybe. They knew what was good for the plants obviously
DickMercenary
Same way they knew about aspirin. "Doing X has Y effect" is really all you need to know.
midgetsaw
they observed increased crop yield; science part came later
edalton454
But isn't learning through observation...science?
TheHourGrowsLate
Indeed
icyanddicey
No. Most animals learn through observation. Only one species knows science.
Cheomesh
A very basic form I suppose
zafner
Before 1492 they also spread the Jerusalem Artichoke around so much nobody actually knows which part of the continent it was native to.
WhichIsIt
Bastards!
ArandomDane
Lucky, I have to plant them to ensure a crop, guess it is because they don't flower here, so they only spread by tuber...
ArandomDane
--- and I am not buying them in the store, those prices are insane!
TurdHurdler
What State are you in? I’m growing some in Colorado.
ArandomDane
I am in Denmark, while the season length is comparable. The period with high enough temperatures for flowering is too short.
Cheomesh
It definitely still grows here in Maryland, though I remember it called sunchoke when wild.
Elsuave
Jerusalem artichoke before 1942?? Something doesn't ads up.
Cheomesh
In spite of the name, it's a New World crop. Also called "Sunchoke".
zafner
1492. Post-columbus
Elsuave
That's not post Columbus, it's transition Columbus
Elsuave
It says before 1942
Elsuave
Ho my dog!! I meant 1492, I'm dyslexic
Notreallymyusernameanymore
I have them in my front yard. They spread, aggressively. But to control it, I harvest them. 5kg last week. 10kg a year.
megamufn1
My cousin planted them by his fence to get back at his neighbour
Notreallymyusernameanymore
That's pretty funny.
TurdHurdler
I’m growing tons of sun chokes in Colorado.
Notreallymyusernameanymore
Nice! I'm in Ontario! A friend gave em to me years ago. I joke with my wife that when we're gone they'll take over the world.
TurdHurdler
How do you cook them? I like them in stews and fried up like potato chips.
Notreallymyusernameanymore
That's one. Soup, in stews, mashed as a side. Home fries. I use em like potatoes. Par boiled and tossed in oil and roasted last time.