Companion planting

Some text here revised from the Farmer’s Almanac

As older sisters often do struggle to get enough

for themselves plants that require a lot the giving

sister pulls the air sprawling and minimizing

open areas where tangle the vines, wind the stalks

a living mulch that shades the soil the prickly

squash to keep away combatants, vermin,

pests make a mound of soil at least four feet

wide where weeds typically take hold six kernels an inch

deep ash to increase fertility as older sisters often do

grown poorly in the company of

sunflowers, potatoes make an excellent companion

they hold the sisters close together when the danger

of frost has passed even the spaces

around each stalk walk the perimeter of the mound offer

the vines needed support weeds typically

take hold although closely related they don’t

like each other prepare the soil by adding scraps of

fish through the tangle of the vines they wind

sprawling, you don’t want to step on them grow

poorly in the company of large leaves and giving sisters.