Originally Posted by controla

hello toribash gamers and forumites

I have come to create this thread to unite all of the gardeners within the toribash community. Whether you're like me and you enjoy growing your own organic vegetables and fruit, or just enjoy ornamental plants or even psychoactive plants, this is a good place to share your experiences and talk about how its going.

I got an allotment this year in January and I've been learning about growing my own veg. So far I've grown; Onion, potato, pumpkin, squash, corn, strawberries, tomatoes, and my girlfriend has grown an assortment of herbs such as lavender and rosemary. I'm really enjoying this process so far and I'm taking an interest in more indigenous methods of cultivating crops, such as "Three sister's" method which was used by the native Americans and Amazonians. The idea is that you grow sweetcorn, pumpkin, and broad beans together in patches and those three plants all help each other be healthier and produce higher yields and more nutritionally dense vegetables. The sweetcorn provides a large pole which gives support to the broad bean plants since they are climbing plants, and the pumpkin (or squash if you prefer) provides shade for the soil which keeps the ground healthier and encourages positive microbe activity in the soil, and the broad beans fix the nitrogen content of the soil which helps the other two plants to be healthier.

This method is particularly interesting in my opinion because I find it fascinating how these people, so long ago before modern science and technology was developed, had such an advanced understanding of soil biology and agriculture