permaculture

[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

From a book about Siberian peasants, it seems that Siberian nut pine is 
highly variable in cropping from year to year under Siberian conditions.

However, according to the book (basically about an isolated Old Believer 
family near Tannu Tuva with asides on food production) in the on years 
the country people in Siberia collect as many as they can and rely on 
them as a major food source. I don't know if they store them from year 
to year.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario


On 16/03/2011 11:47 AM, Jay Woods wrote:
> I've looked over the pine nut possibilities before. Because of the low
> yield, slow growing rate, and long time to seed production, they are not
> first choices for food nor timber.
>
> However, for difficult weather conditions and for evergreens in
> shelterbelts, they have much to recommend them. I expect to add Korean
> Nut Pine to my shelterbelts and look at the Siberian Nut Pine. Does
> anybody know if the Digger Pine will make it in Zone 5?

[snip]