I want to use square-foot gardening with a 3-sisters garden
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Hi Sherri, Here's a link that may help: https://www.growveg.com/guides/companion-planting-three-sisters-garden-plans/
Good luck!
What is a 3-sister garden?
Native Americans planted using a technique they called three-sisters. The sister plants are corn, climbing beans, and squash. These plants benefit each other in a couple of ways. One of the plants attracts bugs that commonly are a problem on another. The beans climb the corn and also supply needed nitrogen to both corn and squash which are heavy feeders. The squash grows on the ground while the other plants reach high.
That's an awful lot of green beans! What happened to some tomato plants, cucumbers, carrots and peppers? Cucumbers could climb your corn or even at the edge of the garden on the fence like I do.
I think you have it planned out just fine. Do you have at least 8+ hours of direct sunlight?
I would also use 1/2 soil and 1/2 compost mix in your raised beds in order to give the plants plenty of slow-release nutrients that come from the compost. Be sure to add a couple of inches of compost and work into the planting bed before the start of a new planting season.
I have done this in my raised gardening beds for the last 25 years to grow organically and have had great success in square foot vegetable gardening. I also have a BS/MS in horticulture so that helps :-).
And yes, this is the sunniest part of my yard and it does get 8+ hours of sun during the summer months.