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["Dr. Chiranjit Parmar" <parmarch_mnd@dataone.in>]

Is the Eleagnus umbellata (Autumn olive) you are talking about the same 
which we have here in Himalayan mid-hills.  If yes, then we do not have a 
problem like you have this plant.

There is a chapter on this fruit in Fruitipedia at the following link.

http://fruitipedia.com/ghain-elagnus%20umbellata.htm

Please have a look and then do write me back.

Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
186/3 Jail Road
Mandi HP 175001, India
01905-222810; 094181-81323
www.fruitipedia.com

-----Original Message----- 
From: Kieran &/or Donna
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 2:11 AM
To: nafex ibiblio mailing list
Subject: Re: [nafex] [nafex ibiblio list] Eleagnus umbellata,Autumn Olive - 
interested in sources for seedlings of this plant

After seeing parts of Virginia that were practically a pure culture of
Autumn olive, I have tried to prevent ours from ever fruiting again.  I dig
out little ones here and there, and when we got a couple of small goats to
eat brush, I thought they'd help.  As it turns out, they don't like autumn
olive, and I suppose neither do the deer that must live in all those VA
thickets of the stuff.  My son out in WA state told me about someone who is
paid to run goats on govt and railway land to eat English ivy.  He said it
was terribly expensive to have people try to remove it, and both cheap and
effective to have the goats do it.   He said that the person doing this in
his area run a lot of goats in a small area with electric fencing, and that
when they were done it would be 5 years before the ivy got to be a problem
again.  Maybe we have here some kind of Nafexers oddball way to make some
money, because I can tell you that goats love blackberry plants (for the
West coast) and roses (multiflora in the east).  Someone in another TN
county showed me a 20-30 ft wide multiflora hedge dating back to the 1950's.
It takes awhile to really do them in, as you'd have to come through and mow
back the branches to let them into another section of the thicket.  I've
been dealing with honeysuckle here, and the goats are really helping a lot.
Donna

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