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  • From: Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>
  • To: pfaf_developers <pfaf_developers@yahoogroups.com>, pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [pcplantdb] Info about root systems
  • Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 12:05:56 +0100

Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org> writes:
> In permaculture design the root habit (what is happening below
> ground)
> is almost as important as habit and this information is
> conspicuously absent. (From the PFAF database).

Rich > What sort of stuff are you thinking of?

> What goes on above the ground with plants is only half of the picture.
> I think about root structures kind of like I think about shade. You
> can plant a tap-rooted plant next to a surface feeder, but two surface
> feeders don't do particularly well close to each other. Indicating
> alleopathic (sp?) properties of a plant as a distinct column would
> also be helpful.

Any thoughts on this folk?

ttfn

Rich
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  • [pcplantdb] Info about root systems, Richard Morris, 05/15/2002

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