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  • From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Thatch
  • Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 12:14:21 -0500

At 03:52 PM 8/3/02 +0200, you wrote:
> From what I read the thatch used in Europe was giant reed grass
(fragmites

depends - also straw was used, mostly oatstraw, i understand, due to high
silica content lasted longer, or rye (very long). (its phragmites, btw.).

happy thaching
georg

phragmites is also very tall, 10 feet/ 3 meters.


Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM





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