regrets HD

Thanks guys I guess it's gonna just be a lot of pulling up.  Hopefully if I get the buggers weak enough before the winter comes it will be easier to deal with next season.

Urban garden with two areas being overwhelmed by morning glory.  both areas are on fences but in one the morning glory has been suffocating a raspberry patch and a rose bush, in the other the only plant is a chokeberry bush that has been latched onto albeit less than the rampage on the raspberries.

Looking for a permaculture answer to the problem; I've heard these can be a serious problem to get rid of.  I am in the midwest and the season here is just about over anyhow, but wondering if there is something I should be doing now or things to plan on for next spring.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-Ryan

The CO2 is not really the problem, I suppose I shouldn't have really worded it in the way that it is. I'm more concerned about liquids evaporating off leaves and just generally getting a good supply of air movement through plants particularly in my situation of close proximity housing.

So we have simple options for collecting rain water to eliminate a fair amount of unnatural watering of plants, has anyone heard of or devised ways of bringing glorious wind and co2 naturally to our plants as well.  particularly in highly wooded or in my case urban areas it would be great to have a way to naturally redirect wind through to your crops.

Just a curiosity, have never even heard of this subject being discussed.

I can'r relocate trees or plants just looking for a way to relocate the air itself.

Sorry again to be so new to the forum and so insistant.  But a section on repurposing things would be great.  Particularly for us city livin child having wasteful dipshits. 

I Just did some pre-fall cleaning and was absoltely disgusted by the amount of junk I was confronted by.  I live in Milwaukee and according to my last check we outsource our recycling to china.  As imperfect as recycling is to begin with outsourcing it makes it ecologically a mute subject I suppose.  Plus 90% of assumably recyclable goods are not able to be recycled in most places do to the machine take over of man made work.

I try to compost as much as I can even if it slows down the process.  Particularly though in cityscapes what is there for me to do with all of my waste. 

Maybe even a trading or donating feature between city dwellers and country livers would do some good.  There is simply not enough space on my property to deal with most of my waste but I assume there are many people in nearby areas who could put to use even the most assinine of my waste.

Creating a wiki for permaculture aspects is a fantastic idea.  I'm sure with a community so willing to share information pulling in the knowledge as well as the money it would take to keep some servers ready would not be a huge problem.  Where the concern in my opinion comes in is editing in this format.  So much of permaculture information is debatable; this is why we even have a forum.  Who do you get to edit the wiki, how do you police the editorial staff, and most immediately are you going to be able to raise enough money to pay for an editorial staff.  It seems like a self policing community based on such wide ranging ideas could be very unpredictable and the last thing you want to do is dissiminate incorrect of inconclusive information. 

I think that you are on the right track to getting out important information to the masses but unfortuanately 3 pages of forum jargon is not enough to support a well oiled "company".  I will be the first one to throw in what short supply of funds I have to make this a reality, but more reasearch into what it would take to make this a solid practical documentation is definitely needed.

Also now that I'm thinking about it and not to be a total dick but I really feel like a subsection for city dwellers is very important.  I am biased because I live in the city -though hopefully not for too long.  But the bulk of humanity is running towards citiies and -just to prove I have been reading I understand that Paul Wheaton is not much of a city fella- there are plenty of us out here looking for advice on shaping our communities around sustainable plant/earth based agriculture.  Once again you are if not ignoring, atleast not targeting urban issues.  Also once again I promise I'm not trying to kick up dirt I just want any community I belong to to be the best that I can help it to be.

Ok I've descovered a bit after doing a couple days of looking around and reading on this site. 

First thing is that permies.com is not the first thing that pops up when you google things like permaculture forum or the like.  You are directed to permies.com's forum but you miss the actual opening page of permies.com; I would suggest linking to the permies.com page from the peries forum with a reason of why to go there.  Even clicking the home button brings you to the home of the forum.

I feel like what most resembles a FAQ is the topics and articles section of the permies.com home and this is information that is unnecessarily hidden due to whatever is happening in google search.  Don't wate your time blaming google, cuz I'm pretty sure they have "bigger" problems to think about.  But I do feel like you should be responding to the environment around you and building your site to suit- pretty sure this makes sense to anyone involved in permaculture.

Sorry to keep wining but I do feel like you are losing a big segment of atleast faux permaculturalists because of simple ease of use problems. 

I have found your site easy enough to root through but that doesn't meant that there aren't thousands of people who don't feel they have the time or energy to invest.

Hey Elfriede, or anyone else for that matter.  I am in the city attempting a bit of Hugel for the first time this year. My neighbors poplar is constantly losing huge limbs into my yard, I am just wondering how well poplar does for Hugel?  I'm not positioned deep in the woods so I'm trying to work with what I have.

Hopefully a big enough branch will tumble down one day to earn me enough of that sweet insurance money to escape all this concrete   But I dream.

Hello all.  I am in Milwaukee, just getting started into the perma research but already I am very satisfied with all of the amazing ways to make life as self sufficient and wasteless as possible.  It's not easy to get tons of experience stuck here in the city (unfortunately my brother convinced me to buy at the top of the bubble).  Gonna be a bit till I can manage to drag my ass out of here.  As far as city living goes we do have a pretty good sized yard so I can't complain too much.

I am always happy to lend a hand if I have the time and would love to stay connected to the perma community in Wisconsin.