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  • From: "John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Herb
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:43:35 -0700 (PDT)

Aloha,

>...a plant called Herb Robert proliferates and grows strongly
> here in central British Columbia, so much so that it has smothered an area
> that was occupied by persistent plantain and dandelion.

>From Nick's links I see Herb Robert does have some apparently significant
medicinal properties, mostly strong astringent.

Yet if it's smothering a dandelion/plantain mix, it's wiping out their
considerable combined medicinal and nutritional contributions, plus the
deep taproot/mineral-mining of dandelion...and the greater diversity of
several plants instead of just one...


John Schinnerer, MA
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