Comments on: Episode-202- 9 Underrated Permaculture Options

By: radar

radar — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:27:29 +0000

This memorial weekend I bought an aronia bush for the cabin . Fortunetly the clerk at the nursary was a degreed horticulturalist that knew her latin otherwise she would not have known its common name of Black Chokeberry. After getting it home I discovered I had one at the house !

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By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:24:44 +0000

Postscript: I tried to order a couple of things and was told by the very nice lady at Raintree that because it is so late in the year they will not guarantee plants shipped to the south right now (I was trying to ship to the Albuquerque mountain area). However, if you order them now (she said) for the proper time to plant, you will be first in line for next spring and they won't charge the credit card until they ship. This would be a great show to revisit in the fall timeframe as a reminder for folks. Thanks again!

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By: Alcyone

Alcyone — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:13:26 +0000

Cool show. I'd add elderberries and serviceberries/saskatoons to the list of tasty (elderberry wine!) and somewhat exotic berry bushes you can grow in a variety of climates. Less exotic raspberries and blackberries are musts too (you can even get thornless varieties), and if you can grow blueberries in your climate, they put out a lot of berries and live for 60 years. A note on sea buckthorn: it's invasive so I'd recommend folks take the same sort of containment measures as they would planting bamboo. The shoots can come up in the yard (not even close to the bushes) and they suck mightily to step on barefoot. Also they're thorny, so kind of a pain to pick.

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By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:23:28 +0000

Love this show and all the other permaculture and gardening shows! Thank you for putting all the time and effort into researching and preparing these shows for us out here... I particularly like making jams, jellies, etc. and am so happy to hear about other fruit-bearing shrubs we can grow here and grow more of our own fruit for these purposes! We are planning to send some of these plants to our gardening parents as gifts for the future. Thanks!

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By: Radar

Radar — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:40:08 +0000

We could not Identify the male of the sea buckthorn , the nursery ships before they can ID. How do we tell the difference ,or do we just keep buying until we "get lucky".

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By: SteveO

SteveO — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:43:19 +0000

Good show Jack! Now I wish I had more land..

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By: BlackMacX

BlackMacX — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:52:32 +0000

Jack, Thank you for introducing me to other permaculture options that are uncommon and underrated. As my family will be relocating across the country, we're not going to implement them in anyway in the current house; but will look at adding some to the new homestead.

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