Three Sisters
This tall plant provided a support structure for other members of the Three Sisters.
What is corn?
The flesh, seeds, and flowers of this plant can be eaten.
What are pumpkins?
This white vegetable is popularly eaten with dill dip.
What are cauliflower?
This crop is a favorite to be eaten right off of the cob.
What is sweet corn?
This type of soil makes it easy to dig up root crops.
What is sandy soil?
These people traditionally grew the Three Sisters together.
This long vegetable resembles a cucumber but is usually longer and darker green.
What are zucchini?
This green vegetable is also commonly eaten with dill dip.
What is broccoli?
This plant hides it's fruit inside a pod that must be opened to harvest.
What are peas?
These taproots start out as very small seeds.
What are carrots?
These are the three plants traditionally grown as part of the Three Sisters.
These can be eaten fresh, made into refrigerator #$#%$, or can be pickled.
What are cucumbers?
It is common to thin these plants as they grow to give each plant enough space to grow.
What are carrots?
This crop is much tastier than it's field cousins but much more of the field variety is grown here and across the world.
What is sweet corn?
These are the more popular of the tuber vegetables we learned about can be made into many foods including french fries.
What are potatoes?
This viney plant provides shade and ground cover to prevent weeds.
What are squash?
Removing these plant parts can result in fewer but larger fruit on viney plants.
What is picking flowers?
This is the fastest vegetable you could plant and harvest that we learned about.
What is lettuce?
To ensure proper pollination, it is recommended that four rows of this tall plant be grown together.
What is sweet corn?
This less popular tuber vegetable is actually not closely related to its more common tuber vegetable but can be used to make pies or fries. We see it mostly at holiday meals.
What are sweet potatoes?
This legume member of the three sisters provides nitrogen for the other plants.
What are beans or green beans?
Most viney crops are not grown in rows but on these raised mounds.
What are hills?
This vegetable has different types of plants known as "leaf" and "head".
What is lettuce?
These are two examples of legume crops commonly grown in gardens.
What are peas and green beans.
While not truly grown underground, to establish this crop the crowns should be planted in a trench.
What is asparagus?