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Guild: Wheat + Alder?
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Milan Broz
Joined: Feb 24, 2011
Posts: 85
Location: Croatia
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Reading a lot of fascinating stuff about Black Alder, Alnus Glutinosa. I was thinking, if I plant a small forrest of Alder trees, and use this land for cereal production, especially wheat, I might have solution for a lot of my problems, but do I get some new problem that I did not think about? Wheat should make most of it's growth in the spring, when Alder is still without leaves. When Alder comes to leaves, I can harvest wheat, and what is the best, I work in the shadow that Alder brings. I leave straw mulch where it is to protect Alder from drying and from weeds, if it matters. In the autumn, Alder drops a tons of excellent manure. But meanwhile, bacteria in Alder roots is fixing nitrogen becouse Alder is nitrogen fixing plant. Before winter I sow new wheat, maybe only under the heavy mulch of straw and leaves. Does this looks to you sustainable for a number of years? Am I missing something?
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Guy De Pompignac
Joined: Nov 16, 2010
Posts: 169
Location: SW of France
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It seems a good idea, take a look at agroforestery books, A. glutinosa likes wet soils, maybe switching for A. cordata is a better idea depending on your weather conditions ?
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Follow our design (in french) on our 3 acres property in SW France.
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