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Is Thuja green giant safe in a food forest?

 
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My alternative to thuja is a columnar ginkgo but I was wondering if thuja spreads rust or any other disease into my food forest? It would be filtering run-off at the top of the hill with garden giant mushrooms before it reaches the rest of the food production.

Thanks for the feedback
 
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as far as i know the thuja genus doesn’t harbor cedar apple rust or other diseases that might affect your forest garden.

however, i’m a big fan of ginkgo and all other things being equal, that’s probably what i’d go with.
 
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greg mosser wrote:as far as i know the thuja genus doesn’t harbor cedar apple rust or other diseases that might affect your forest garden.

however, i’m a big fan of ginkgo and all other things being equal, that’s probably what i’d go with.



That is the main information I was wandering, thank you. Did a little research on roots, and since thuja has surface roots, it might make a good companion plant with ginkgo, whose root system works well with sidewalks and stone work.

So if you plant the like 2 columnar ginkgo closer to the run-off driveway/sidewalk source with the thuja to create a screen. My third companion i am considering is a purple red bud as a hydrocarbon filter and pretty accent. Combined with the garden giant mushrooms I think I’ve designed my first filter fedge. You can cut back the thuja after the ginkgo grows in.

Maybe sunflowers and raspberries with a fire circle for burning them at end of year and just and hanging out? Any suggestions to improve  the design guild are welcome.
 
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