posted 2 years ago
The local permaculture nursery is usually open by appointment only, but they had walk in hours today.
I got a jostaberry, a walking onion and two seaberries, one male ,one an unsexed seedling.
I pulled the dead pawpaw seedling out of it's nursery barrel and dug the two seaberry plants in.
The nursery is a series of barrels along the driveway, that I pass everyday.
It has plants that I'm trying to propagate plus whatever I plug in there.
After planting, I started rethinking my decision.
I've had other thorny plants in the nursery and their aggressive snagging of skin,hair and clothing was bad for domestic bliss.
I have a bed at the front of my house that has thorny plants in it ,but they are well behaved, and I'm thinking seaberries are not well behaved at all.
So they will have to go...over to the yarden, where they can run wild.
I would plant them next to some raised beds along the northern fence line, but the beds are all at least 2 feet tall.
Neither plant is that tall, and evidently, shade is the one thing that kills seaberry plants.
Could they coexist in growing directly in the raised beds alongside annual crops?
If I give them a bed to themselves, is there any soil medium they can't deal with?
I build most raised bed soils from sticks and leaves.
It's basically a lasagna bed, composting in place.
How do think think they would like such an arrangement ?