Health benefits of eating pumpkin seeds

[Mortblanc]

I'm still trying to figure out how the ancient Greeks used pumpkins when that particular vegetable was a Native American development and not available in Europe until the 16th Century?

Is someone mistaking the use of the Greek word for "melon" with the Greeks having the melon?

Anyway, the "Three Sisters"; corn, beans and squash, provide all the basic nutrients needed for healthy life. They are also excellent crops for growing in "gurillia gardens" planted in sunny patches deep in the woods. One can grow them with no real cultivation or tools other than a simple garden hoe.. Just rake up a big mound of dirt, drop in three or four seeds from each of the veggie types and check on it now and then.

That is the way the three crops were developed to grow. The Indians did not clear fields, they girdled the trees and killed them and planted between the standing tree trunks. Our concept of straight rows of plants in cleared fields was not their vision of a garden. Their crops were planted in scattered mounds spaced randomly as the forest allowed.

Corn will not pollinate well when planted as a few rows in the average garden. It wants to be planted in bunches, as the Indians developed it. The hills of dirt with clumps of 6-12 stalks works perfectly, needs little maintenance when planted with the beans and squash.

I have corn, pole beans and acorn squash, planted together in hills, growing in my back yard right now. I put that patch in a hillside spot with plenty of sun that I hesitated to till deeply due to the slope. All three crops are coming up now and doing well.