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Eino Kenttä wrote:I'd also be a tad concerned about planting butterbur, for the same reason.
What sort of pH/nutrient situation are you looking for? Will you try to create different soil types on the different dry areas, to get a diversity of habitats?
Also, are the cranberries you're looking for Vaccinium oxycoccos? If so, we have a bunch around, and bilberries are everywhere here. Just remind me next summer if you want some seeds of either one.
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L. Johnson wrote:Cool project.
Were I to do wetland planting I would also go for cranberries and if possible I'd try to grow rice of some sort. I don't know what rice you can grow in Skye, but there must be something. Even if you don't have enough space for a calorie crop type something like wild rice could give you a little something to make rice snacks or zakkoku style topping.
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L. Johnson wrote:Cool project.
Were I to do wetland planting I would also go for cranberries and if possible I'd try to grow rice of some sort. I don't know what rice you can grow in Skye, but there must be something. Even if you don't have enough space for a calorie crop type something like wild rice could give you a little something to make rice snacks or zakkoku style topping.
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Steve Marquis wrote:[A friend of mine Andy Williams not far away from us in N Caithness has been experimenting with rice and has recorded his work here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmjYEOcdi0m6W9O5HzlxADy-oMUzXlYhJ
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Benefits of rainfall collection https://permies.com/t/88043/benefits-rainfall-collection
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Joshua Myrvaagnes wrote:Nice inventive use of space!
How does caltrop taste??
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Joshua Myrvaagnes wrote:They can be propagated by getting stuck in birds’ feathers, and are viable for 12 years, so maybe better to forage them rather than cultivating outdoors.
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Eino Kenttä wrote:
Regarding water caltrops: I don't think those of us who live in Europe have to worry about these being invasive. They are native to at least large parts of Europe, and have become quite rare or regionally extinct in a lot of places. I don't know about the UK, but we used to have caltrops in southern Sweden up until the early 1900s. Apparently their range extended way further north during the Bronze Age heat period (up to mid-Sweden at least) so what with global warming and all it might be time to reintroduce them. I actually just ordered some plants...
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An important distinction: Permaculture is not the same kind of gardening as organic gardening.
Mediterranean climate hugel trenches, fabuluous clay soil high in nutrients, self-watering containers with hugel layers, keyhole composting with low hugel raised beds, thick Back to Eden Wood chips mulch (distinguished from Bark chips), using as many native plants as possible....all drought tolerant.
Yes, they likely slurped up anything useful in the grey water like crazy! They are certainly not that aggressive in my ecosystem.Cristo Balete wrote:I even put some in containers making a grey-water reed filter bed, they grew like crazy, almost burst the containers.
Have you eaten any parts of them? I book I just read has recipes for parts of them, but I'm wondering if you've ever eaten any parts and what your experience was?But they are a good plant with lots of uses.
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Cristo Balete wrote:Nancy, it's just amazing what you've done. I get exhausted just looking at the piles of saturated clay. How did you shovel all that?? while you probably had 5 pounds on each boot, and some stuck to the shovel?
But the results look great. Congrats.
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