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  • From: Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Nitrogen-fixing shrubs and fruit/nut trees
  • Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:25:31 -0500 (EST)


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Is it especially advisable to plant nitrogen-fixing shrubs (i.e. buffaloberry
- Shepherdia; guomi - Elaeagnus; sea-buckthorn - Hippophae; etc.) beneath
fruit/nut trees such persimmon and hickory? If you're soil is already
moderately fertile, will this help?


I like plant native grasses/forbs underneath my trees and I'm afraid that -
native choices or not - nitrogen-fixing plants will encourage alien invasive
weeds to succeed over the native species.


Thanks,
Steve; NJ 6b/7a




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