permaculture

[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

I have a lot of 6 year old seabuckthorn, mixed planting seedlings which  
are only a meter & half high & have shown no signs of fruiting.  & in  
the heavy clayloam soils here they also show no sign of suckering or  
getting out of control.  One of the keys to an alleycrop interplant in  
wisconsin should be that it starts bearing in 3 years & productive by  
4-5.  here in southwest WI, that would be gooseberries, currants,  
elderberries, grapes, bush cherries, siberian C peaches, sunchokes,  
groundnut, curly willow & basket willows....  if youre interested in  
taste, flavor, disease resistence, productivity then varietal choices  
are really important.  one of the wisest sources I know of for that  
detail of  information is NAFEX.  their archives is searchable at:  
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex/ & I highly recommend the list  
as well.  there's even a few permaculturaholics subscribed.

mIEKAL




On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 01:54 PM, Ute Bohnsack wrote:

>  There is an article on "Improving financial
> returns early in an orchard's life through alley cropping with an
> example from Maine were sea buckthorn is interplanted with apples.
> See this link  
> http://www.sare.org/reporting/report_viewer.asp?pn=FNE00- 
> 328&ry=2000&rf=0





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