• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • Nancy Reading
  • r ranson
  • John F Dean
  • Pearl Sutton
  • paul wheaton
stewards:
  • Jay Angler
  • Anne Miller
  • Nicole Alderman
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
gardeners:
  • Maieshe Ljin
  • Benjamin Dinkel
  • Jeremy VanGelder

Legume trees

 
Posts: 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I am creating a food forest in my garden, i want plant legume for the Nitrogen fixing purpose, i got a kind of tree, Tabebuia rosea, it is easy to grow here, but I wonder is it a legume?
 
pollinator
Posts: 3828
Location: Massachusetts, Zone:6/7 AHS:4 GDD:3000 Rainfall:48in even Soil:SandyLoam pH6 Flat
557
2
forest garden solar
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Nope not a legumes or a nitrogen fixer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabebuia_rosea

Look here for a few legume.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume_family
 
Posts: 288
Location: Deepwater northern New South wales Australia
1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

David Chan wrote: I am creating a food forest in my garden, i want plant legume for the Nitrogen fixing purpose, i got a kind of tree, Tabebuia rosea, it is easy to grow here, but I wonder is it a legume?

where do you live???
 
David Chan
Posts: 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

andrew curr wrote:

David Chan wrote: I am creating a food forest in my garden, i want plant legume for the Nitrogen fixing purpose, i got a kind of tree, Tabebuia rosea, it is easy to grow here, but I wonder is it a legume?

where do you live???



I live in Malaysia, tropical country, aren't those trees who bearing bean pods are legumes, i find a lot of bean pods in Tabebuia rosea?
 
Montana has cold dark nights. Perfect for the heat from incandescent light. Tiny ad:
Learn Permaculture through a little hard work
https://wheaton-labs.com/bootcamp
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic