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  • From: Rick Valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] clearing land
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:13:57 -0700


> From: Claude Genest <genest@together.net>

> Depends on what you want to do ?
AS EVER!
> Alder, I believe, is a nitrogen fixer..... PErhaps you might consider some
> manner of guild around the alders ? - Also, the mere presence of the alders
> in
> such abundance suggests to me that yours is recovering, regenerating land
> that
> was likely abused and depleted in the not so distant past.
I WAS GETTING AT THIS;
IN MY EXPERIENCE WITH RED ALDER, THE SHADE UNDERNEATH IS EXTREME. BUT ALLEY
CROPPING & INTER CROPPING WORKS- REALIZING YOU'LL BE RUNNING INTERFERENCE
FOR YOUR CROPS, CONTINUALLY THINNING AND/OR PRUNING- TOTALLY POSSIBLE WITH
THE SIZE MENTIONED.
I *HAVEN'T* EVER TRIED ROW CROPPING ON FRESHLY CUT ALDER STUMPS, BUT YOU
*MIGHT* BE ABLE TO DISC OVER LITTLE GUYS LIKE HE MENTIONS. THEY'LL ROT
QUICKLY UNLESS COPPICED WHEN DORMANT.
-RICK










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