permaculture

[Michael Carpenter <kerter@rocketmail.com>]

Hi Heide. What is your opinion of the organized Scotch
Broom pulls around Victoria to protect the threatened
Garry Oak ecosystem?

--- Heide Hermary <heidehermary@pacificcoast.net>
wrote:
> Yea, I keep hearing this "wrong plant in the wrong
> place" stuff.  I also 
> think  that Mother Nature isn't all that stupid:
> those plants are 
> EXACTLY in the right place from an ecological point
> of view.  It just 
> doesn't suit  our purposes, so we continue to force
> our way until 
> eventually the soil just gives out.  "Weeds" are
> great soil builders, 
> usually replenishing the soil with exactly the
> nutrients that ahave been 
> depleted. So what then is the point in eradicating
> these weeds? We 
> should have a category on "weeds" in the database,
> together with all the 
> useful information we know about them...
> Heide

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