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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] reed beds
  • Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:05:11 -0500

Harmon Seaver wrote:

Phragmites is traditionally used in various parts of the world as
thatched roofs, and walls, and even reed boats, because the stems are
hollow and they float well. It would probably be great used instead of
straw in a clay-straw wall.

Is this what the Marsh Arabs in Iraq groow and use? They build their houses
and boats out of some reed.
They live in the largest marine estuary in the world. No comment about what
the American puppet Hussein
did to their waterways. Something about filling them in using heavy
equipment. Hope the spooks enjoy this fodder.





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