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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] "Non-Native Invasives" Useful in Permaculture (Part I)
  • Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:34:55 -0700

Part 2, pasture grasses, in answer to your imaged problems:

Calamagrostis nutkaensis, Danthonias, Deschampsias, Hordeum brachyantherum, leymus triticoides,
Calamagrostis canadensis, Calamagrostis foliosa, also maybe Trisetum canescens, Trisetum cernuum, Trisetum spicatum, Leymus cinereus.

Pleuropogon refractus, Rhynchospora alba would be interesting rare natives to try out.as both are rhizomatous perennial grasses which seems to be your interest in red clover.

Find a remote meadow w/ similar conditions [maybe just wet rather than irrigated] and collect seed to try out. Now's not a bad time to do it. I'd get familiar w/ the invasive stuff though, just so that you aren't spreading anything you don't want.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>

.5. Red Clover

The plain Jane original, at first glance. Perennial red clover was
never too popular with farmers, as its woody taproots like baseball bats
can't be easily tilled in. It's only good for permanent pasture or hay
cutting. For some reason, all the true perennial clover has been
replaced by 'Kenland' in the stores and catalogs. It's an annual red
clover that reseeds itself. There may be such a thing as an annual red
clover, but I don't think it's quite the same. I loved those soild
taproots. You can find "persistent" red clovers, like 'Starfire', but
they don't reseed readily at all. Last year my experimental planting
had all its seed sprout right in the seed head. To find persistent
clovers with reseeding capability, you almost have to gather seeds from
the wild.





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