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  • From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Indigo source?
  • Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 23:00:34 -0500

You could always go with Blue Wild Indigo (Baptisia australis), which has been used as a dye plant & if very easy & foregiving to grow.

~mIEKAL

On May 9, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Lisa in Oregon wrote:

Pinetree has seeds (www.superseeds.com/herb_seeds.htm) and so does
Richters as I recall (www.richters.com, but not working right now).
But your original sources could be fine.

You might check hardiness - as I recall indigo is tropical and not
frost hardy, or maybe only to zone 9 or 10. Might double check on
the shade tolerance too, I've seen references that it requires sun.

Other N fixers to consider are bayberry and goumi... which some say
tolerate shade. Maybe not quite as useful for dye...

Lisa in Ashland Oregon




--- Norris Thomlinson <scrub@corrupt.net> wrote:
Hello-

Does anyone have a recommended source for obtaining indigo
(indigofera
tinctoria)? I'd like to put a few N-fixing bushes on the north side
of a
house where it's shady and/or dry.

I'm planning to just get a packet of seeds from either of these
websites:

https://home.frognet.net/~complants/secure/cart/ia-iq.htm

http://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/SeedlistH-K.htm

unless someone has a better suggestion! I'm in Portland, Oregon

Thanks!

Norris Thomlinson





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