Question by Thomas: What are some traditional native American gardening techniques.?
I can’t really find any online except for the three sister one. Does anyone know any, or have any links?
Anything accept for the three sisters technique please.
Best answer:
Answer by FarmCzar
In the southwest, Native Americans had a planting strategy for maximizing water in dry land farming. They would plant at the bottom of a gentle slope, and channel runnoff from the sides toward the bottom of the field. (They could only use gentle slopes, because heavy rain on steep slopes early in the season would wash out their crops.)
Imagine a baseball diamond sloping upward at a slight angle from home plate at the bottom. They would make long, narrow mounds along the lines to 1st and 3rd base, going about a third of the way up the field. When it rained, instead of running off the sides, water would flow toward denser plantings at the bottom. They widened the spacing on the plants farther up the field, where it was drier.
I saw this technique browsing in a bookstore, but I can’t remember the title of the book. Amazon has several books on Native American Gardening:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_25?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=native+american+gardening&sprefix=native+american+gardening#/ref=sr_pg_1?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Anative+american+gardening&keywords=native+american+gardening&ie=UTF8&qid=1296701911
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