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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

Another plus for considering Siberian Peashrub is it doesn't sucker, doesn't
even really seem to sprout from seed under the plants.  It can be pruned in
anywhich way.  I do agree tho that under fruit trees herbaceous legumes make
the most sense.  I put a mix of alsike white color, mammouth red clover,
creeping fescue & winter rye in my new orchard planting.  (Plus the
landscape is peppered with peashrubs.)  I also notice it attracts a lot of
bumblebees during flowering.


~mIEKAL



On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Deb S <debs913@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm on a farm and mowing autumn olive is not possible here...areas are too
> steep to mow.  I use goats to try to keep it in control, but it is
> gradually
> taking over a lot of the untended land around our region.  NOT a good
> plant,
> IMHO!
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Hector Black <hblack1925@fastmail.fm
> >wrote:
>
> > I've used autumn olive successfully under nut trees, but under fruit
> trees
> > they interfere with harvest unless pruned severely..   They are the best
> > N-fixers.  Plants like clover which can be mowed, would seem better under
> > fruit trees.  Autumn olive is invasive, but I have found mowing a couple
> of
> > times a year is adequate to control that.  Hector Black, zone 6, middle
> tn
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steven Covacci" <filtertitle@aol.com>
> > To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 7:28 AM
> > Subject: [NAFEX] Are nitrogen-fixing shrubs good for underplanting
> > bellowfruit trees?
> >
> >
> > > 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
>