saar ostraiher

hi there,
do you know if chickens like to eat medicago arborea?
is it good for them?
thanks
saar

Hi there,
It make sence to plant together a fruit tree that needs lots of certain nutrient with a plant that is a good dynamic accumulator for the same nutrient.
But unlike Nitrogen fixation, the dynamic acculumators acculumate the nutrients from the soil (and not from the air). so maybe it can cause competition?
It will not make sence to plant lots of fruit trees that need alot of the same nutrient close to each other. But what are dynamic acculumators if not plants that needs nutrients and therefore take them from the soil and store them in theis bodies?
I know the idea that those nutrients will become more available to the productive trees later on when the leaves of the dynamic accumulator plants will decompose. But why not let the fruit trees take those nutrients by themself directly from the soil?
maybe its wiser to plant the dynamic accumulator far away and then bring their leafs to the fruit trees. but i dont want to create more work for us in our big food forest.
and perhaps i didnt understand well enough the way dynamic accumulators works.
Thanks
Saar

Hi, thanks for the advice.
i checked both trees in the nursery and in the field, and on most of them i didnt found nodules. it could be lack of rhizobium, but also could be enough nitrogen in the soil.
anybody knos where can i order rhizobium for trees?
thanks
saar

hi everyone!
i'm designing water retention earth works in an erea with very little soil- a hill with 40 cm soil before you get to the base rock.
i have very little budget as well.
the best thing to do is to make terraces to build the soil, but it's expensive and takes a lot of effort.
i thoght of making swales using piles of mulch (that we have planty) instead of dugged soil.
the slop ratio is 1:20- 1:30
does anyone have experience with that?
thanks

Hi there
I am planting a mediterranean food forest on a 5 acre land here at israel.
i am planting many non native nitrogen fixinng trees (like Leucaena leucocephala, Inga Vera, Bolusanthus speciosus, Prosopos alba), and i am wonering if they really gonna fix nitrogen here since they are not native and probably the rhzobium they need just dont exist here.
what do you think?
thanks
Saar