[permaculture] frozen trees and baby steps to permaculture
Kathy Evans
evansdk at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 24 18:37:02 EDT 2007
Jedd, Thank you for the suggestions....seems like stuff I can actually start on. Can I grow fruit trees in clay soil in the understory of oak/hickory forest?
It's easy for me to be overwhelmed trying to understand and apply permaculture and not sure how to just begin in a small way. I can only speak for myself but I wonder if that holds some people back from getting into it, because it's such a huge body of knowledge and a lot of what I see has to do with major design projects.
Thank you Felicity, regarding the trees, someone emailed me off list and said they had seen highly stressed trees come back after more than a year of dormancy...I want the local public to know that so that people here in Midwestern suburbia don't start getting trigger happy with a chainsaw. At least I want them to wait awhile and see what lives and what doesn't. Now I'd say half the mature trees are affected, with zero signs of life three weeks later, after leafing out and freezing. Others have literally a couple dozen leaves on a seventy foot tall tree. God bless the trees.
Thanks for the help, Kathy
Kathy Evans
evansdk at earthlink.net
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