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RE: Lab-Lab



Greeting, All,
     I once tracked down a Lab-Lab supplier in 1994,  Schuster Farms, in San
Juan, Texas,
who specializes in wildlife and domestic forage seeds. They once sold
Tecomate, a perennial
corn, but a recent letter said they had sold the Tecomante Trade Mark Label.
Anyhow, the
Lab-Lab price is now quoted at $3 per pound. The letter says they “do
intensive research on wildlife
habitat and nutrition mgmt, from native and natural browse to food plot
forage seeds.” Furthermore,
they say they have an open book policy on info dissemination. 1 800
332-4054, schusterfarms@aol.com <mailto:schusterfarms@aol.com> .,
www.schusterfarms.com <http://www.schusterfarms.com/> .

The brochure says, “Lablab is an annual, warm season forage legume similar
in appearance to cowpeas.
Lablab is the most drought tolerant plant avail. for annual food plots and
more productive late in the growing
season than any other forage available.  Young growing leaves exceed 30%
protein and have a 2:1 calcium to
phosphorus ratio, perfect for growing huge antlers during the peak period of
antler growth.”

Another interesting plant: “Siratro Aztec is a perennial tropical legume as
long as temperatures are above
25 degrees.  Siratro is heavily browsed by deer and quail relish the seed
crop.”  $10 per pound.

And still: “Leucaena is a deep rooted leguminous shrub that contains 20-25%
protein and is utilized by a variety of wildlife
and cattle.  $10 per pound.

If any are good, maybe we could get a group discount ???

Mike Skinner
Texas panhandle.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Pittman [mailto:pci@permaculture-inst.org]
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 1:01 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: Lab-Lab

At 05:35 PM 10/27/00 -0200, you wrote:


Hello Mike!

When I planted soybeans, I lived in a tropical mountain region, near the
Tropic of Capricorn  but at 1,000m. altitude.  Summers were quite hot, but
we had three or four frosts in winter.

The lab lab which is used here is  local, and I confess that I don´t know
its Scientific name-- it is not sold in the stores but only traded through
neighbors.  .

Marsha

Scientific name is Lablab purpureus, also Lablab niger both edible and
native of tropical Africa.  There are a lot of cultivars.

Scott

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