permaculture

["Marjory Glowka" <forestgarden@gvtc.com>]

Hi Charles,

I saw you mentioned the use of velvet bean to supress grass.  The reports of 
how much bio-mass he benn produces sounds fantastic.  I haven't found out 
much about it's drought tolerance.  It was used the the SE part of the US 
which is fairly moist.  Do you know how well it would do in a dryland 
situation where we get little rains in the long hot summer?

Sincerely,

Marjory
Red Rock, Texas


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles de Matas" <cdematas@hotmail.com>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:51 PM
Subject: [permaculture] grass in orchards


> Rich Blaha wrote <<<<<<<<<<<<<<In the meantime, a couple of
> rounds with the string trimmer per year keeps the fire danger down...I'm
> not too worried about the cosmetics of it.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> I'm thinking of buying one of these string trimmers myself to help reduce
> risk of fire.  We had a prolonged dry season this year.  I had extensive
> fire damage on my property.  Most of the people in our permaculture group
> had fire damage to their property as well.  I am going to try many
> strategies to reduce fire risk (including velvet beans to try to smother 
> the
> grass) but maybe the strimmer will help as well.  I'd really like to get a
> scythe but I'm not keen right now to go through the problems of importing
> stuff.
>
> Charles
> Trinidad
>
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