permaculture

["Scott Hitchins" <ScottH@wcig.org.au>]

The problem with using (non-permie) zones as a starting-point was brought 
home to me when I was looking into growing avocados: I've yet to seem them 
'zoned' as being growable in Melbourne, Australia.  -and certainly, I have 
been unsuccessful in growing them in my yard.  However this is because the 
only spot I have available is too heavily shaded.......by the neighbours' 
heavily-laden avocado trees!

Regards,
Scott Hitchins

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark [mailto:mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu]
Sent: Thursday, 12 September 2002 1:11 AM
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [permaculture] Re: Localized Plant DB


At 02:40 PM 9/11/02 +1000, you wrote:
>many books and seed packets use simple or more complex systems that are 
>generally useful........but take no account of microclimate, elevation, 
>soil-moisture, pH etc, etc.

Seems to me the simplest way to handle this is to use the existing zone 
data for plants and add a link to briefly out line the effect of slope, 
mass, water etc in microclimate creation with figures to allow the user to 
calculate their adjusted zone.


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

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