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  • From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] nitrogen fixing trees intercropped with fruit and nut trees
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:49:16 -0500


On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 08:29 AM, Jerome Osentowski wrote:

Andrew,  Look like you are on the right track .  Take a tour of our forest garden on our site.
We started with  mostly the siberian pea shrub , but now have about ten NFT, and shrubs and
vines, that we keep mixing in diifferent combos.  


Jerome:

Can you tell us what the other 10 species are? Here in WI the siberian pea shrub is really slow going, 5 year old plants are less than 6ft high & just now starting to take off. I can't imagine coppicing them until they attain some kind of precocious vigor. It would also be great to find a few species of forbs to keep in the annual gardens. Ive been using IL bundleflower (desmanthus illinoisensis) & pigeon pea but they take a lot of nursing to keep going in a zone 4 heavy clay loam landscape.

mIEKAL



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