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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] What weeds or cover crops are high in nitrogen, i.e. suitable for harvesting to make High N liquid fertilizer?
  • Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 20:37:10 -0400


What weeds or cover crops are high in nitrogen, i.e. suitable for harvesting to make High N liquid fertilizer?

Are there any weeds, natives, annual or perennial or woody that stand out as far as nitrogen content is concerned?

Good to know so as to conserve patches of weeds that might otherwise get cut of eliminated; best to incorporate them as an element in a permaculture design or comprehensive plan for a property.

At my place I have an abundance of wild turnip greens/mustard, rye grass, curly dock. These predominate as I have systematically gotten rid of most of the Pennsylvania Smartweed, Bermuda, crabgrass, Johnson grass, redroot pigweed and some of the lambs quarters. Maybe the LQ is a candidate for a high N crop. Outside the garden areas I have a bumper crop of red, white andtall sweet clovers, ryegrass, fescue and many other desirable plants, all thanks to the abundant rain we have has since winter, especially near the beginning of Spring.

I have domestic bees also, wild ones, probably from hives I had years ago and swarmed or someone else's hives.

Thanks for any feedback.

...:LL




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