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RE: Bind weed
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: Bind weed
- From: "Mike Skinner (Easy Hay)" <EasyHay@arn.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:29:21 -0500
- Importance: Normal
- In-reply-to: <LYR101660-73145-2000.08.17-15.34.08--easyhay#arn.net@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
Arina said….
I heard of a BD approach, that sounded this way:
3 consecutive years of pumpkins will smother the bindweed. Well, here we
also have the ferocious squash bug that will destroy all the pumpkins.
But once we move in our new house, that is choked by the bindweed from 3
sides, even some is growing up the drain inside the house, I will try a lot
of biomass and pumpkins.
Mike said:
In exasperaton, I ve tried to figure what niche bindweed was filling. To me
it seems,
that being deep-rooted, it is breaking the hard pan, bringing up nutrients,
as well
as keeping the ground from blowing as a result of clean farming or heavy
grazing.
So, by my thinking, if we stopped making hard pan, possibly deep ripped,
return
tilth, (like green manure Austrian Winter Peas), and leave cover on the
ground, we
might help Mother Nature, the same way bindweed does.
Arina said:
I think this approach may also help with the thistle - to plant deep rooted
plants that will break the soil. The bindweed, though has a different kind
of root, not the tap, but more runner type. It seems to be intimidated by a
good stand of red clover - still grows, but more modest looking, and less
brutal.
Mike’s new thought:
Arina, But, then, red clover might be pernicious. I wonder if another
viney crop, indigenous, Buffalo Gourd, would work, like pumpkins, but it’s
perennial, too.
Also, I’ve used bi-annual stubble turnips, successfully, to break up
hard pan. Cost is around $4 per pound,
but the tiny seeds cover a lot of area. Austrian Winter peas are also viney
and strangle bindweed.
A smattering of kenaf or red top cane, (early sumac) or sterile hybrids,
would add height to a mix, and allow trellising, and further keep light off
the ground-hugging bindweed.
mike
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