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  • From: lasocietedesplantes AT globetrotter.net
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Living Fence was Pressure treated Poles
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:23:53 -0500

And here in the real north there is just salix that can make living fence
but they take to much water to serve beside a crop

le 17/01/04 21:04, Allan Balliett à igg AT igg.com a écrit :

>> Here in Dominica, farmers usually use Glory Cedar to make living fence
>> posts. They root quickly (and not terribly invasively) and can be kept
>> trimmed easily and often enough. They provide animal fodder, pepper/tomato
>> stakes, mulch/compost material, etc. Despite the huge differences in how
>> quickly plants (or posts) can root in the different environments, I wonder
>> if there isn't a Northern analogue. Even if it had to be planted beside a
>> to-rot-soon post to take over as the permanent post when it was strong
>> enough.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Karen
>> Roots Farm
>> Organic Produce
>> Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs
>> Cockrane, Dominica
>
>
> Karen - not quite as easy to use as your cedar, apparently, but we
> have both black locust and osage orange that can be trained into
> living fences. But that takes too long for what I need to do right
> now...on leased land. -Allan
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