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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

My neighbor at Forest Farm likes to plant Siberian Peashrub (Caragana
arborescence) in the same hole as his pears.  I tend to plant them in
vectors between a group of trees because I'm concerned the the center of the
trees will get too choked up with growth...

~mIEKAL

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com> wrote:

> Group:
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> Are nitrogen-fixing shrubs (i.e. Autum olive, goumi, silverberry;
> sea-buckthorn; etc.) good for planting bellow fruit trees (Prunus, etc.)?
>  Or would this over-do it, maybe encouraging disease?  It probably will
> greatly increase weed recruitment, but so would general fertilization.
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> Thanks,
> Steve; NJ 6b/7a
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