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  • From: Rick Valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] nitrogen fixing trees intercropped with fruit and nut trees
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:51:33 -0700


> The same goes for many nitrogen fixing
> shrubs, which are spread by birds into surrounding fields and hedges. some
> folks have readily called some of these invasive. I know this may wrinkle
> the
> perma-folks, but many of these theories of management are really just that.
> better to maybe do raspberries

I myself have much more problem managing invasive Rubus, incl. raspberry,
than managing comfrey and Eleagnus, but I always plant all these and more.
I've never had an invasive N-fixer, except perhaps clovers and Wistaria.
(lord save me, I work with black locust too!)

-Rick





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