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I'm guessing it's chopped corn cob. My guess is it's very expensive. I'd suggest as an alternative that you look up a video titled Back to Eden. It's a natural approach using chipped trees as a deep mulch.

Rabbit pellets are not the standard, for sure. There are liquid fertilizers that are fish friendly. And there are little fertilizer tablets that can be tucked into the root zones. Of course, fish poop provides most of the nutrient!

Those little rabbit pellets make an excellent inoculant and fertilizer when putting plants in an aquarium. I don't have an aquarium running any more. (At one time, I was raising angel fish, and had 12 tanks running!) But, rabbits are an intriguing option for increasing the family protein. No...

Nice. YOu clearly have much more land available than I do!

I tried 3 sisters several times with dismal results. IMO: the original 3 sisters version that was practiced by native Americans used cultivars that were very different than the ones that we use. I'm guessing that the corn that they used was very tall, and had sturdy stalks. It certainly...

If you start them a bit early, they should do fine. Can you give them a mini hot house? Use a couple of storm windows to make an enclosure for them, or set a tomato cage covered in a clear plastic bag over them... a milk jug with the bottom cut off will give them extra heat until they out-grow...

In the case of vining squash, you could purposefully bury a portion of the vine intermittently at the leaf nodes. It would then take root there to help feed the vine, so if borers took out the main stem, the other roots might keep the vine going well enough to produce fruit.

Your temperature is the problem. Too hot for the fertilization. Female flowers on squash, cukes, melons and other related plants have the tiny fruit at the base of them, while male blossoms only have a stem. When it cools down a bit, your plants should start producing again.

Are your zucchini plants setting female flowers? Or perhaps just male blossoms??? If you're getting female blossoms, but no fruit, it could be related to temperature. Is it super hot where you are???

No, I don't have plans, but there are some neat designs on the net. I have several storm windows/doors that would work wonderfully. Most of them are based on a heat collector shallow box with the interior painted black, glass over that. Some have baffles. The box is angled to collect the...

I hear you regarding the state of the world. I am working on getting my yard set up to provide as much of our sustenance as I can. This includes gardening for veggies, addition of blueberries and raspberries in the last 2 years, chickens started last year. I have someone coming in 2 weeks to...

I was reading about Yellow Bantam corn, (I think written by Ruth Stout). She saved her seed every year, and until the year her crop got wiped out, her stalks were reaching 7 feet in height. Case in point = the value of saving seed for more than one year. That way you have the previous year's...

BAD MOSQUITOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess maybe, they're bad. I just about got carried away while out opening up ant hills for the girls tonight.

Not one of the 3 sisters, but I love to grow potatoes with corn. The potatoes seem to really benefit by growing with the corn. I don't hill my corn, but instead throw the mulch deeply around both the corn and the potatoes. I discovered the benefit of corn and potatoes one year when some left...

Nice looking garden.

In many areas, if you waited that long for the corn, you'd get no harvest of the other sisters.

That sounds like a great idea, but you might still want to give them a pole to climb, since they'll climb the corn as soon as they reach it. Keep us posted. Perhaps we need to start a 3 sisters thread, so folks can show pics of how well it is/isn't working and share what varieties they've...

That was the problem I had. The squash and beans took over. The corn never had a bit of a chance. I think that when the native Americans did it, they grew a bean that was not as vigorous in it's runner growth, their corn was a taller flint or dent corn, and the entire crop was designed to be...