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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org> writes:
>  In permaculture design the root habit (what is happening below
> ground)
>  is almost as important as habit and this information is
> conspicuously absent. (From the PFAF database).

Rich > What sort of stuff are you thinking of?

> What goes on above the ground with plants is only half of the picture.
> I think about root structures kind of like I think about shade.  You
> can plant a tap-rooted plant next to a surface feeder, but two surface
> feeders don't do particularly well close to each other.  Indicating
> alleopathic (sp?) properties of a plant as a distinct column would
> also be helpful.

Any thoughts on this folk?

        ttfn

                Rich
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