Hugo Morvan

Timothy Norton wrote:While this thread has primarily been about the fruit, I am now curious about the wood itself.

My peach trees have exploded with growth in recent years and I am curious about uses for the biomass. Does the wood have value? Perhaps for wood turning or for smokers? Anyone have experience with peach wood?

I don't know if the wood is that good. But the trees for sure are. They're so easy to grow, fast growing and hard as nails that i use them as wind blocks. And i think they're under appreciated as fruit too. i think because they're perishable and people like me don't really find time to make it into marmelade. lucily my neighbor lady likes to make that and share and hopefully, i can entice others to come and pick in future. But the rest just drops off and is appreciated by badgers and wasps and what have you? Oh yeah another function i discovered by growing them in a south facing hedge is a shade provider so i can plant other trees in the semi shade of them and they get an easy start like that. Easy for me as well not having to water like crazy in hot summers, and still have trees dying... And killing them is easy peasy. Just ring them and then without leaves they can function as a bean rack. Or for a rose or whatever.
All in all i don't get why it is not a permaculture darling. For me it for sure is. And carrying fruit after 3 years as well. I'm in F3 landracing those babies! Great fun tasting all those differing tastes and grades of juiciness!

It's so addictive propagating stuff. If only i could go back in time i'd have started years earlier!
Must be 300 cuttings there! All sorts. Mostly blackcurrant and some others like goumi redcurrant gooseberry and butterfly bush!
It used to be my passive seed nursery, but the rats found it.
Gotto make airprune beds like Akiva Silver has!

Aaaaah it's out of control!

i changed it to something like in Michael Cox his video here above. I'm happy with the results, but not all have equally great rootsystems.  I've taken some out to check, but my mate says it's best to not pot them up yet as we can graft them in spring and then pot them up. First photo is those potted up ones.
Second photo is part of the set up. I'll get more next year. I was afraid it wouldn't work for me for some weird reason, but it worked fine, so be cutting down the cherry tree soon and get loads of shoots to cage in and bury!
I love how these projects evolve and while i learn from mistakes others don't have to make them no more!
Viva Permies!

Greg Mosser, it died and i've strategically decided to make some more beanracks for season 2026.
Coming back from Christmas family visit i noticed that something really liked that dead bark!

Lots of concrete stuff in this video!

Hard to not get political about it. So just some snippets as i do get the sentiment. Happy to see Senegale are friendly. i've heard in Southern Italy they pay people in some villages to go and live there if that's hot enough for you. The southern Spain region around Malaga is very dry and has quite a lot of international Permaculture minded folk. Also in the mountains there. So you could check that out on your way to Africa.

I think along the same lines and have tried having them grow onto whatever dead stalk or the south face of shrubs, i made some willow racks as well last year in differing locations in my garden. They usually do best kind of holding onto each other in the end i found. more group like plantings than one row in front of the sunchokes/topinambour. But for some reason i suck at peas and never end up with more than i started with.
I have used mixed varieties from a landrace group, because i'm convinved some will be naturally better climbers than others and bit by bit the population will become dominated by those climber champions if you get my thinking.
i've started doing the same with climbing beans into fruit trees, mixed varieties and some were really much better at it than others.
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Your roof looks fine to me. The holes you see won't leak. Only if you stand right under it and can see the sky.
If it were my roof I'd take the tiles off, the lats(horizontals that hold tiles) bang all nails sticking out in. Change rafters that need changing. Then we put a sheet/cloth on it. It stops wind from entering you hold this with contra-lats on the rafter beams. Then re lat the whole roof. If there is a small leak then it will run off the undersheat. Just retile and insulate the underside. Or you could do it from the top, but then you're changing a lot and might not have enough tiles.
Having said all this, I'm pretty sure Indian roofing techniques require differing standards, so best to speak to differing local roofercompanies. Make sure you come across as kind of knowledgeable about roofs or you will pay more money. That's why asking here about it is a good thing. You ll learn roof talk... Good luck!