permaculture

[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

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