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paul wheaton wrote:
Kirk Patrick wrote:
Several people have sent me crypto, so I have become pretty good at it. There are fees, but I tend to leave the crypto there and in time the value of the crypto is far more than the fees stuff.
Id love to create a DAO and build a decentralized permaculture city! Have you ever thought of something like that? Its kind of like what youre doing up north. I think we could raise a few million and make it a reality!
Maybe Im just a crypto nut, but does that sound awesome to anyone else?
Kat He drey wrote:Hi I’m in Australia, I was wanting to know the same thing, my yard is full of yaccas , I love them, I propagate regularly:)
Beth Wilder wrote:Hi again, Eric!
If mesquite won't grow there but catclaw will, then by all means propagate that! It's all good stuff. Do you have hackberry, elderberry, mulberry, various oaks, cottonwoods, juniper, or anything else like that anywhere near you?
Beth Wilder wrote:I've been trying to find out if there's much mesquite around Dolan Springs. Looks like maybe there's catclaw acacia (wait-a-minute bush, Senegalia greggii, fka Acacia greggii), but not mesquite (Prosopis spp) -- is that right? If so, you can use the catclaw in similar ways in terms of nitrogen-fixing, fuel, and wood chips and dropped leaves as mulch, with a similar caution for both about those thorns. Expect to get a few right through the soles of your shoes, at least if you're anything like me. At least the catclaw thorns -- although they will really catch and pull your skin with that claw-like curve, thus their other name wait-a-minute -- are shorter than the mesquite thorns can get. I'd be surprised if you don't have both trees/bushes somewhere around there, though, as they overlap heavily, at least around here. You may already know this (all of this, really), but both mesquite and catclaw acacia can be much, much older than you'd think by looking at them: hundreds of years sometimes. When I get irritated with the placement of one or several of them, I try to remember that. I'm such a new arrival to their world. It makes much more sense for me to move than for them to be sacrificed, in most cases.
Beth Wilder wrote:Hi, Eric! Why do you want to get rid of the yuccas and creosote, or am I misunderstanding that? Both are incredibly useful and enriching plants that we go out of our way to propagate. Why not work with and around them?
You could take shed material — dead leaves and stalks, for example — from the yucca without hurting them and use it as mulch or for other things. We use the stalks as bean trees and as reinforcement for chickenwire garden fence in between T-posts. Because we leave the branchy parts on top of them on, birds love to perch on them and hunt insects and such in our gardens. Yucca also provides food (fruits from some varieties, flowers from some, stalks from some), fiber, medicine (roots of some), and soap.
Creosote tends to inhibit other plants immediately around it, so I might discourage it from spreading too much, but it’s the desert’s pharmacy, as many have said. I haven’t tried any parts of it as mulch because it’s rare right on our land (more plentiful a ways away) and doesn’t seem to shed much naturally, but it’s so resinous that I wouldn’t be surprised if as a mulch it hurt rather than helping.
One of the pics looks (on my tiny phone screen) like you may have some tansy mustard. I have a thing against it — guess I’m allergic to its pollen — but have read the seeds are good seasoning. I do scuffle hoe or chop and drop a lot of that one before it seeds, and we use it as the initial green mulch under the following brown mesquite wood chip mulch.
Do you have mesquite where you are? That’s another wonder-plant. It’s good for food, medicine, fuel (deadwood it sheds naturally), furniture- and utensil-carving, nitrogen-fixing, dried leaves (tiny but soil-enriching) and wood chips (from busting up deadwood for fuel) as mulch. We treat them as nurse trees/madrinas for other trees and shrubs we want to grow, imitating what we observe around us. Various species of wolfberry (goji/Lyceum), cholla (Cylindropuntia), prickly pear (Opuntia), yucca, mustards, and more like to grow at its feet and knees.
Have you had a chance to spend some time on and with the land, observing it?
