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[Deb S <debs913@gmail.com>]

Autumn olive is incredibly invasive.  I wouldn't plant it as the birds will
spread seeds everywhere.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:33 AM, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve; NJ 6b/7a
> >
> >
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