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Permaculture·/u/brianbarbieri·4 days ago
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Hi all, Small update on my agroforestry system. The first picture shows the 2000 m2 of a more conventional system. It is 3 years old and most scrubs like fly honeysuckle, japanese wineberries, red currants and blueberries, autumn olive are starting to produce a lot fo fruit now. For the fruit trees, the feijoa, plums and cherries are the first to produce. Most fruit trees were planted 4 meters apart, but I started planted more scrubs in between them and added some species to take the canopy like black locust, pauwlonia, poplar and gunni eucalyptus. The second picture shows the new system of 2000 m2, which I planted according to the syntropic principles. My target species of feijoa, persimmon and pawpaw is still grown 4 meters apart, but every 0.5 meter two aromatics are planted with the same plants as above to fill up the canopy. In each line I also planted onions and garlic in the right (west) side and broad beans and jeruselem artichokes on the left side. The broad beans and onions are harvested now but j.…

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