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["bluestem_farm@juno.com" <bluestem_farm@juno.com>]

Tanis,
You caught me maybe exaggerating a little.  After you wrote that I wandered 
on down to where the walnuts are, and while there are a few blackberries 
under them they aren't particularly vigorous.  It was a young multiflora rose 
that was doing a good job of impersonating a blackberry.   The soil in that 
field is probably the deepest and best on the property, either because much 
of the neighbor's 40 washed onto it or because it was not in cultivation that 
long (old aerial photos seem to show solid tree cover there).
Muffy

-- "tanis cuff" > wrote:

Muffy, that does break a "rule", because blackberries are the most 
susceptible to the juglone.

In the past I had to do some observing of what will & won't grow under 
b.walnuts, for gardening/ landscaping.  I noticed 3 interesting things: the 
better your soil, the more of the "won't grow" list WILL grow well under 
your b.walnuts; because b.walnuts leaf out late and drop leaves early, you 
can push the envelope on shade tolerance of what you want to grow under 
them; some years ago a study was published about the number of different 
plants growing under b.walnuts in the woods (wild)-- higher diversity under 
the b.walnuts!


----Original Message Follows----
From: "bluestem_farm>
To: nafex@
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Planting near a walnut tree
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:36:10 GMT

The tangle under our un-maintained black walnuts contains black raspberries 
(wild), blackberries (ditto), and strawberries, as well as nettles and 
various grasses and weeds.  I suspect that red raspberries would grow there, 
too, but they haven't planted themselves and I haven't planted them either.
Muffy
Baraboo, WI zone 4


     David Hausmann asked, wanting to plant near a walnut tree:
"I have read that blackberries
will not survive planted too near
a walnut tree."


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