Direct-sow, easy to grow. The ancient three sisters method

It's the ancient agricultural technology wherein corn, beans and squash are grown together.
Sisters works together:

• corn ensure stiff stalk that the offers the beans needed support
• beans bring nitrogen to the soil for the benefit of all three
• both beans and corn ensure shadow and proper moisture for squash
• squash protects soil from degradation ant prevent weeds, also squash leaves keep away racoons

Presumably people used this method for the first time 5 to 3.5 thousand years ago in America.
In native-american legend, the plants were a gift from the gods, always to be grown together, eaten together, and celebrated together.

The point of this post is:
Work smarter, not harder