The purpose of the Tierra Viva Project is to develop efficient, sustainable and low cost agricultural methods for the humid to subhumid tropics and to share this technolgy and thus empower the small scale farmer.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Companion planting corn and beans
Here is a good example of companion planting.
corn thrives being planted with beans, in this case green beans. You actually put the corn and the beans seed in the same hole, and voilá!
The corn provides a trellis to the bean, and the bean fixes nitrogen for the corn as well as maintains humidity. One of our first crops while improving the soil after planting only beans, was corn with beans.
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