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[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 32 points 1 year ago

The general definition of a weed is "any plant growing where you don't want it to be". A corn plant in a bean field is a terrible weed.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

what the hell is a bean field? also beans are great with corn they climb the stalks, also have squash, then boom you have the so called three sisters.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago

Bush beans are a thing? Soybeans don't climb either, and it's the most common bean grown in the US.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

oh I've only grown vine beans. The ones I have that were originally smuggled when all the invasive species were brought in grow easily 10+ feet high and any I can't reach are left to dry on the vine at the end of the season and the poles are toppled to grab them

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

I suspect that's one of the reasons they're grown in greenhouses commercially. They use a lift to pick, and it's easier to drive over pavement than dirt.

[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 year ago

I am aware of, and deeply intrigued by, the three sisters method. It's just not a commercially viable method of growing those crops; I don't know what the harvest would look like.

We need to grow a lot more industrial hemp, but I'm afraid that's a bit of a pipe dream unless we change...literally everything.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We have neighbors with tons of hemp bales mouldering in the field because the processors won't take them because they don't have anywhere to sell them to. Maybe it's incompetence, or maybe the hemp hype isn't all it's cracked up to be. There aren't a lot of people willing to grow it anymore.

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