permaculture

["Robert Waldrop" <rmwj@soonernet.com>]

Thanks for the tips.  It's kind of interesting how things come
together.  After sending my previous post, I did a google search for
"fruit tree guilds".  Hit the jackpot with
http://www.sustainablesettings.org/garden_guild.html

which has drawings of apple and pear guilds, together with plant
lists.

Robert Waldrop, OKC

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Gordon <gordonse@one.net>
>Humans can eat the flowers of eastern or western redbuds raw or
pickled >like capers.>They are high in Vitamin C, which is helpful
that early in the year.
>
>The western seedpods and seeds are edible when cooked.  Don't know
about>eastern ones.
>
>If by chance, you live somewhere that you can get a variety of
dogwood that >blooms>at the same time as your redbud, this is a
beautiful thing to see.
>
>Sharon
>gordonse@one.net