Some more plantings in the LBC garden tonight-- tomatoes. We were only able to do this thanks to my good neighbor, Clyde, who was very kind to loan his tiller to our effort. Now the plot has a much better tilth. One can actually insert a shovel and not hit a rock or a tightly compacted agglomeration of the clayey morass we call "soil" in this area. Soon we'll put in the "three sisters": corn, beans and squash. These 3 go together in a special way. The corn grows up tall and straight-- a perfect natural trellis for beans. And the large squash leaves act in such a way as to shade the ground and thus prevent weeds from growing. Rather like mulch on a vine.
This reminds me of an article I just read about gardening in -of all places!- Wired. However, since it's Wired, it has to have a geeky neologistic nomenclature; thus, "domestic terraforming".
Corn, beans, and squash...isn't that succotash?
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