Subject: Re: [permaculture] is honey locust a nitrogen fixer?
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:58:04 -0800 (PST)
Perhaps Honey Locust is a legume, but the amount of nitrogen that ends up
back in the
soil is insignificant?
--- Lisa MacIver <lisamaciver8@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Checked the origin of my info and it's Toby too (post of 4/20/04):
> he quotes the book "The Leguminosae" (O.N. Allen).
>
> Googling found a few sites that agree, but online opinions differ...
> one example:
> http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/gletri/botanical_and_ecological_characteristics.html
>
> A lot of times, there aren't simple yes-or-no answers to plant related
> questions: the more I know, the more I know no one knows the Truth
> about say, plum pollination...
>
> Lisa in Ashland Oregon
>
> > After a great deal of reading, I had come to the impression that
> > Honey Locust was a
> > nitrogen fixer. Now one person on this list and Toby's book say
> > "no".
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