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For chinampas in a zone 6 wetland with a growing season of roughly 117 days. I’m thinking of playing around with some short season cold weather corn varieties, stinging nettle, various berries, barley, perhaps some flax.
 
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What is the height of the chinampas? This value will affect what trees you can grow, that said most grains/legumes/carrot/mint/thyme family plants will do well. I can see most berries doing well too (cranberry/blueberry, raspberry/blackberry/strawberry, juneberry, elderberry, honeyberry, etc)
 
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