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Traditional varieties of squash absolutely grow in the desert. It's not super common on the Navajo res to my knowledge, but the Hopi and O'odham reservations ha
by AlotOfReading 5y ago
Traditional varieties of squash absolutely grow in the desert. It's not super common on the Navajo res to my knowledge, but the Hopi and O'odham reservations have sustenance and large scale commercial farming.
But as a fun fact, the three sisters were often grown dryland on as little as a single rainstorm in pre-contact times. Some of those areas average around 40mm of rain a year.
- rdtsc 5y agoWell I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing it out. My parents grew squash. I was forced to eat it so much in fact I still dislike it even though I know it’s healthy. We grew it in a continental climate, black soil, regular rain so I assumed automatically it needed those conditions.