From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: creating online plant database
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 13:27:09 -0500
On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:58:31 -0600, mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> uhm, maybe claude thought, that it might be helpful for setting it up, to
>> see how his structure was done?
>>
>> all the best
>> georg
>
>that, of course, is a very useful consideration. Ive been scanning all
>kinds of
>plant data-bases & everyone is different, each one with its own
>considerations. Im
>also very interested in what nick r mentioned about having a set of fields
>related to
>guilds.... if someone could post a text based example of the kind of
>information
>that would be relevant for designing guilds, that would be helpful. I
>personally
>work more with a. kapuler's concepts of kinship gardening more than the
>guild idea,
>so Im not real familiar with it.
Another field might include information on spacing within plantings,
size & shape at maturity, optimum pattern to plant them in,
integration with edge zones.