Remember my pumpkin experiment? Putting pumpkins in the ground two months early against all expert advice? Well... It's looking pretty lush now. This garden bed is amazing. It gets full sun from sunrise to sunset, and is a raised rock bed which means the soil is incredibly warm. We'll be eating pumpkins all winter long at this rate. I've also planted some corn and runner beans amongst these monsters. This trio is commonly referred to as The Three Sisters.
The squash rambles and suppresses weeds, the beans act as a nitrogen fixer for the soil, and the corn provides a stake for the beans to run up.
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