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HBS Guy wrote:Bought two books:
Mycorrhizal Planet
The Apple Grower
Both by Michael Phillips.
Since I can’t do anything in Tassie this year I can edumacate mesel’, eh?
90% of trees will apples and pears, might add a quince if I can find room, a crabapple or two ditto.
HBS Guy wrote:This one looks OK:
https://www.woodbridgefruittrees.com.au/figs/261-black-genoa-fig.html
No matter how good your soil, if you take stuff out you need to put stuff back in.
HBS Guy wrote:If you want to grow fruit trees then you want to establish “guilds.” A guild is a fruit tree with various understory plants.
Pomegranates—tall shrubs
Currents—red white or black and gooseberries, Tasmanian pepperberry, all understory plants.
Herbs like rosemary and oregano, sage etc and especially fennel
Herbs like yarrow and tansy (grow tansy near your backdoor and flies will not be a problem. Tansy was one of the Medieval strewing herbs, kept fleas at bay.) Yarrow and tansy were two ingredients of gruit, the bitter herbs used before hops became the bittering addition—tansy is an abortifacient, I don’t recommend ingesting it in any way! Good as insect control agent tho!
Long rooted plants like lucerne and comfrey. Dead leaves put nutrients from deep down into the top of the soil.
Flowers, shade lovers like clivia, low mainenance plans like pigface daisy and lavender (prune lightly after flowering finishes. Pick and dry lavender flowers for culinary use or to extract oils.
Interplanting like this is the way to go and not just because you can get more food: the plants attract beneficial insects including pollinators but also predators on plant pests.
HBS Guy wrote:As long as you plant and interplant you will have a healthier garden.
How is that butterfly attracting forest of yours going, Sprint? Love to see some photos!
In the Sand Pit, “Well that was a shock to the system” thread are some photos of my Tassie block and preparations I have done. Next April there will be 16 fruit trees planted.
HBS Guy wrote:Got any photos of that forest?
HBS Guy wrote:You can post them as attachments too, no need to move them to a picture hosting site like photobucket or Flickr, leave them on your hard drive.
HBS Guy wrote:You can post them as attachments too, no need to move them to a picture hosting site like photobucket or Flickr, leave them on your hard drive.
Sprintcyclist wrote:HBS Guy wrote:You can post them as attachments too, no need to move them to a picture hosting site like photobucket or Flickr, leave them on your hard drive.
how do i do an attachment ?
pinkeye wrote:I know I can re-size them.. used Paint once upon a time, but... seem to have forgotten how, now. Get a bit frustrated.
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