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Not sure this is posted in the right place.
While I don't really think my orchard is a true permaculture, I still plant a lot of miscellaneous plants around my fruit trees and bushes. I have lots of comfrey, yarrow, wild carrots, other pollinator plants, etc. I also had a lot of fennel scattered around, I don't really eat that much but it is good for pollinators and I like the smell as I walk by. I recently learned that fennel is allopathic. One of my apple trees next to fennel has not grown as well as others but I just assumed the vigor was less, but I wonder if it is due to the fennel. I ask AI if there are other common plants that are allelopathic Some, walnuts and sunflowers, I was aware of but AI said Sage, Thyme and oregano are allelopatic. I have lots of this scattered about, especially thyme, probably 100-150 sq ft. of thyme.
Are these herbs a problem? Any other common flowers or herbs I should be worried about?
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