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[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

I haven't heard any disparaging words about black walnuts except for the 
word challenging (for some species). I have grown all the species Rob 
suggests and others besides and concur with his observations. Clovers 
(white especially) and field peas (a great winter salad crop) did well 
under them as did carrots, parsley, celery, and fennel (which suggests 
that other umbels ought to be tried). The alliums work just fine and 
because walnuts are late to leaf out, the sunshine that is available 
until leaf formation provides great opportunity to grow lots of salad 
type greens, lettuces, brassicas, spinach, etc. While I'm on the subject 
of greens I want to take a moment to praise mache or corn salad. I 
planted it a couple years ago and now it is my favorite self sowing 
winter salad "weed". It has tolerated temps in the low single digits and 
thrived. In a hoophouse it does even better and forms beautiful fat 8 in 
diameter rosettes.
Keith Johnson

robscott@freeshell.org wrote:

> In response to the disparaging comments about Black Walnut, I'm 
> posting my research on Black Walnut ecology and companion planting. A 
> list of productive species for Black Walnut understory appears at the 
> bottom.
>
> Rob Scott


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