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- From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
- To: "Hector Black" <hblack1925@fastmail.fm>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:15:29 -0500
My position on autumn olives was similar to
Hector's till we went on a trip over the mtns to Virginia and saw whole fields
that had been completely taken over by autumn olive. One place looked like
about 5 acres of autumn olive with an abandoned house in the middle, the plants
came up to the eaves. But still, I expect them to be a problem in degraded
areas: logged woods and abandoned fields. I don't think they would
stand up to a lot of browsing animals, as any N fixer is going to
have higher N content than plants around them. We are about to find out I
guess. Our dogs have done a good job of keeping deer away (think there
must be some poaching as well, as we really aren't overrun with them). So
for 15 years we have had no browsing or grazing on our property, and I'm tired
of doing it all by hand. So we got 2 fainting goats that had been on
pasture. It is weird to watch goats eat grass! Out milk goats
considered grass to be famine food. So far the fainters have figured out
that they like mimosa, sumac, honeysuckle and poor Mr. Blackberry. They
don't seem too interested in my hazels, nor have I seen one bite taken out of an
autumn olive. But give them time, they are just learning about real goat
food. Donna
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Jay Cutts, 09/08/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive, M Stanton, 09/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Hector Black, 09/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
John S, 09/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
S & E Hills, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
mIEKAL aND, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Lon J. Rombough, 09/10/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive, Jolyn, 09/10/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive, John S, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Lon J. Rombough, 09/10/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive, John S, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
mIEKAL aND, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
S & E Hills, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Kieran &/or Donna, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants",
John S, 09/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants",
Kieran &/or Donna, 09/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants",
Hilborn . E, 09/11/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants", Hector Black, 09/13/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants",
John S, 09/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Sunchokes,
Kevin Moore, 09/14/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Sunchokes, Hilborn . E, 09/14/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Sunchokes, mIEKAL aND, 09/14/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Sunchokes, Luffman, Margie, 09/14/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Sunchokes, jelie, 09/14/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Sunchokes,
Kevin Moore, 09/14/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants",
Hilborn . E, 09/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants",
Kieran &/or Donna, 09/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants",
John S, 09/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
John S, 09/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Jay Cutts, 09/08/2009
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