Subject: [permaculture] Question: Do Serviceberries Fix Nitrogen?
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:14:42 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
I've never heard that serviceberries fix nitrogen and maybe Ian was thinking
of Russian olive, specifically the cultivar goumi (Eleagnus multiflora),
which does. Plant serviceberries anyway, though. I ate them growing up in
Northern Mich when we went out with aunts, uncles, and cousins for almost
tribal annual gathering. They are under-appreciated, delicious fruits loaded
with antioxidants. We gathered many gallons this year from the mall(!), where
they had been planted as "ornamentals", and NOBODY but us recognized them as
edible (except, of course, the birds which greedily devoured them.)With many
cultivars to choose from they can be selected to produce for almost a month
and half instead of just for a week or so.
K