Subject: [NAFEX] Nitrogen-fixing shrubs and fruit/nut trees
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:25:31 -0500 (EST)
Group:
Is it especially advisable to plant nitrogen-fixing shrubs (i.e. buffaloberry
- Shepherdia; guomi - Elaeagnus; sea-buckthorn - Hippophae; etc.) beneath
fruit/nut trees such persimmon and hickory? If you're soil is already
moderately fertile, will this help?
I like plant native grasses/forbs underneath my trees and I'm afraid that -
native choices or not - nitrogen-fixing plants will encourage alien invasive
weeds to succeed over the native species.
Thanks,
Steve; NJ 6b/7a
[NAFEX] Nitrogen-fixing shrubs and fruit/nut trees,
Steven Covacci, 11/13/2011