Re: permaculture digest: November 16, 1999

[rick valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>]

re: Beneficial invasive cover crops;
>Like pauwlonia it is leguminous
Not legume- belongs to the Bignoniaceae & is not N-fixing as far as I have
heard. 
And would Kudzu grow in a -0- summer rainfall climate like in California? I
doubt it; I bet it was tried in CA back when Kudzu was being promoted by the
USDA.
One dude's invasive is another's coddled curiosity....
-R

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