nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

List archive

[nafex ibiblio list] Nitrogen-fixing shrubs - do they also delay winter-dormancy of marginally hardy plants?

From: Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [nafex ibiblio list] Nitrogen-fixing shrubs - do they also delay winter-dormancy of marginally hardy plants?
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 02:53:29 -0500 (EST)

Group:

I wonder if nitrogen-fixing shrubs might be detrimental to marginally hardy
plants (i.e. in my climate: Morus nigra; 'Kazake' pomegranate), that the
excess nitrogen in the soil (resulting from the Frankia that colonize the
root nodules of the nitrogen-fixing shrubs) will delay the plants in the
surrounding soil from going dormant.

Do you think that I can get by with planting thinks like sea-buckthorn and
guomi in pots?

Steve; NJ 7a/6b

[nafex ibiblio list] Nitrogen-fixing shrubs - do they also delay winter-dormancy of marginally hardy plants?, Steven Covacci, 01/02/2012