{"id":1498500,"date":"2023-12-09T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1498500\/"},"modified":"2023-12-09T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T16:30:03","slug":"7-issues-with-the-3-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1498500\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Issues With The 3 Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LajLDWLBjEw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe 3 Sisters is a really interesting example of companion planting or intercropping, combining maize, squash and beans in one integrated planting, which was developed and used by some indigenous peoples of North America. I didn\u2019t think it would grow well in the climate like Ireland, but this past season I tried growing this combination both in one of the polytunnels, and in an outside area, and I think there are 7 key issues I would want to address before growing the 3 Sisters again.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 A famous companion planting<br \/>\n1:07 What is the 3 sisters?<br \/>\n3:00 Sweetcorn lacked enough structure<br \/>\n4:37 Beans were too weak and too strong<br \/>\n6:01 Needed appropriate squash varieties<br \/>\n7:24 Too many plants for the space<br \/>\n8:55 Too much fertility and not enough<br \/>\n10:00 Pollination an issue inside and outside<br \/>\n11:27 Yield was too low<br \/>\n12:43 Try again?<br \/>\n14:49 Having spare capacity<\/p>\n<p>Help me develop these gardens and make more videos through regular contributions https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/redgardens<\/p>\n<p>Or use https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/redgardens as a simple, once-off way to support this project and the time and energy that goes into making videos. Thanks so much!<\/p>\n<p>Part of the Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary, Ireland http:\/\/www.thevillage.ie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3 Sisters is a really interesting example of companion planting or intercropping, combining maize, squash <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1498501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[841373,24319,68757,142270,567198,68750,225477,301388,68753,68759,68747,68756,68746,68740,68742,68745,22023,154952,68741,128960,68752,68744,68760,820232,68748,117334,673317,820229,68743,202728,68768,68761,68763,416985,38986,68749,820230,68758,68755,256368,225485,68754,820231,68751,68739],"class_list":{"0":"post-1498500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japanese-anime","8":"tag-3-sisters","9":"tag-adaptation","10":"tag-allotment","11":"tag-beans","12":"tag-climbing-beans","13":"tag-cloughjordan","14":"tag-companion-planting","15":"tag-corn","16":"tag-ecovillage","17":"tag-exploration","18":"tag-farmer","19":"tag-food-security","20":"tag-gardener","21":"tag-giy","22":"tag-grow-your-own","23":"tag-grower","24":"tag-growing","25":"tag-guild","26":"tag-gyo","27":"tag-intercropping","28":"tag-ireland","29":"tag-learning","30":"tag-life-long-learning","31":"tag-maize","32":"tag-market-garden","33":"tag-no-dig","34":"tag-no-till","35":"tag-organic-growing","36":"tag-permaculture","37":"tag-pollination","38":"tag-polytunnel","39":"tag-power-down","40":"tag-prepper","41":"tag-pumpkin","42":"tag-red-garden","43":"tag-red-gardens","44":"tag-regenerative-farming","45":"tag-research","46":"tag-resilience","47":"tag-self-sufficiency","48":"tag-squash","49":"tag-sustainability","50":"tag-sweetcorn","51":"tag-tipperary","52":"tag-vegetables"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}