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  • From: Michael Carpenter <kerter@rocketmail.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] DifferentlyAbledPlants
  • Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:03:31 -0700 (PDT)

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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