RE: Self Sufficiency through a "Permaculture Food Forest"!!!!
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Great idea on planting plants that will provide you with food! I tried my green thumb out this season for the first time, and I was able to get a few vegetables to grow from seed! Next year I plan to do something similar to what you are describing, so thanks for the tips!
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@ma1neevent, thanks so much for your comment. If you try this start by planting an apple tree. Make it a "Dwarf" tree. Put one or two comfrey plants around it. Comfrey has a really deep tap root (Up to 20 feet or 7 meters.) It 's a "nutrient miner", meaning it will bring up minerals from the deep soil to feed your other plants. You can chop off it's leaves all Summer, and drop them around the other plants to feed them. At the eventual "Drip line" of your Apple tree, (The eventual outside diameter of the tree.) put in a raspberry, or two and maybe a couple of blueberry bushes. There's a tiny wasp that eats "Apple maggot flies". It also likes blueberries, and they will help attract it. Put in some flowering perennials, to help out the honey bees. In Spring, they'll then know where your Apple tree is, and pollinate it. You can slip in a few Asparagus crowns. Their lacy leaf structure makes a good home for a predatory insect called the Tacinid fly. Tacinid flies eat lots of bad bugs. You might also put in a few "Lupins" They're a pretty perennial flower that makes nitrogen in the soil for your other plants. Fill in the rest of the area with some culinary and medicinal herbs. Echinacea is a good one. Lots of medicinal uses. Finish off by planting a few "Wild onions" around the base of your tree. Mice and voles hate the smell of onions, and garlic. It will keep them from eating the bark off of your baby tree. After the tree gets a little bigger, you can put a grape vine by it, and let the tree act as a trellis for the vine. (Hey what do you know, you said make a reply, and here I wrote a blog lol.... Guess I'll have to post it LOL.)
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