Tales from the Garden: Three Sisters Garden

So this year I decided I was going to garden. I was weaning myself off of antidepressants, and needed something to distract me from the constant war in my head. Gardening slid into place as a distraction from unwanted thoughts, a positive outlet for anxious energy. I'm sure the sunshine and fresh air also helped the healing process. During February and March, I spent a lot of time looking at seeds (and building my seed hoard).

One rainy day we were at a local Osh and I was checking out seeds on a Renee's Garden display. In addition to individual seed packets, there were also bundles of groups of seeds that went well together; kitchen herbs, Gourmet Greens, Hummingbird Garden, and Three Sisters Garden.
The Three Sisters Garden caught my attention. I had already bought a lot of seeds, so I had corn, squash and beans already, but I was intrigued by the idea.

When visiting the Renee's Garden website it describes the Three Sisters Garden the following way:
"According to Iroquois legend, corn, beans, and squash are three inseparable sisters who only grow and thrive together. This tradition of interplanting corn, beans and squash in the same mounds, widespread among Native American farming societies, is a sophisticated, sustainable system that provided long-term soil fertility and a healthy diet to generations.Growing a Three Sisters Garden is a wonderful way to feel more connected to the history of this land, regardless of our ancestry."

If you follow the link above, you can see a diagram on how to lay one out. I have spent much of my time making sure that things I planted near each other were friends and benefited so this seems like the perfect experiment. Plus three things that I am most excited to grow are corn (I have 4 varieties), bean, and the pink porcelain doll pumpkins I also picked up from Renee's Garden.

So now the time has come to do dig my 10' x 10'. The pollen outside is so bad, it is making it hard to accomplish much of anything. At least we have a long, long growing season here, so if I delay another weekend, it will be okay.

An Introduction

I have way too many blogs. A blog or two about tea, blogs for several different derby personas that never got off the ground, blogs for businesses that never quite took off, year long art projects that failed in less than a week, Movie and video game review blogs and any number of other things.

I love to write, but I lack focus and time. One minute I am really into one thing, the next I jump ship and swim away towards the next, leaving behind me a wake of dead blogs, scraps of notepaper and supplies associated with said interest or hobby. I usually do end up crossing paths or backtracking, but I always feel to start a new blog instead of picking up the old one. Maybe it is the shame associated with having to come back as say..."hey, I abandoned you, but I'm back!" Much easier to just say "This is shiny and new! Look at it!"

So this time I am trying something new. Still starting a new blog, with a somewhat themed name, but not a themed subject. This will be my blog to write about what I please. If I feel like writing a video game review, it will go here. A review of a certain tea....here. Update on my garden? Also here. Dramatic life event? Why not!

So hopefully this blog will live on...as a spot to write about whatever I am interested in at the time. Might make it hard to get a loyal group of followers, but there have to be people who are just as sporadic and fickle as I am, right?!