permaculture

["Charles de Matas" <cdematas@hotmail.com>]

Last year I attended a seminar by a biologist who had visited Ecuador and 
studied the species of trees used by the local people in different parts of 
Ecuador.  I was amazed at the wide variety of trees used for many different 
purposes: fruits, hedges, etc.  Many of the trees provide a significant 
contribution to the diet especially of children.  I asked her about trees 
used for hedges.  Inga edulis is often used and provides food also.  Many 
fruit trees which are seldom seen outside of Ecuador are used by the local 
people.

Charles

<<Hello everyone
> This is Miguel from Ecuador,I am very interested in letting my
> plants to reseed by themselfs, and now my doughts are how to let
> this occur naturally, because here there are not harsh winters
> (there is not snow) and  when the plants go to seed most of it will
> be eaten by birds,so might it be better to make seedballs.??
> Other question is how to do to obtain daikon seeds, I sow lots of
> Daikon in the winter, in some places I put a clover crop, in others
> not but I had the same results, I had a really good harvest, some
> daikons weighted more than 2 kl, I let some daikon and they went to
> seed, but close to them there were lots of mustard, wild radish, and
> other wild brassicas, most of the in flower and with lots bees,
> ladybugs,, pollinating them,so I thought that it was something
> completly natural, in this way new species will born, but I want to
> eat daikon not a mix of everything,how would be a way to get not
> mixed seed in a natural way .???>>

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