permaculture

[Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

The clovers are nitrogen fixers but don't forget dynamic accumulators. Get 
great results with comfrey tea, and nettle and lambsquarters, etc. Many weeds 
are dynamic accumulators of nutrients which only makes sense in a pioneer 
species.

C

--- On Thu, 5/27/10, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net> 
wrote:

> From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [permaculture] What weeds or cover crops are high in nitrogen, 
> i.e. suitable for harvesting to make High N liquid fertilizer?
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 5:37 PM
> 
> 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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