Wanted - Legume bushes and trees suitable for Sth East Qld

veggie boy · **Posted:** Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:46 pm

The only bush/shrub size legumes I'm growing are pigeon pea. I'm interested in growing some more shrub and tree size legumes. I've not done any good with tree lucerne in the past, but will try again sometime. Another I will try is icecream bean.

Anybody got any other suggestions or seeds they might want to swap for something I might have. I guess one thing about legumes is that it is all well and good swapping seeds, but without the innoculant, there is probably not a great deal of point :ohdear:

dufflight · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:29 am

These guys send it out with the innoculant.
http://www.greenharvest.com.au/seeds/po ... orage.html

veggie boy · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:20 am

Duff - am familiar with greenharvest. Have bought much from them previously but other than pigeon pea and tree lucerne they don't have much in the way of what I'm talking about.

My point about the inoculant was simply that if we share legume seeds here, not much point if they are varieties requiring an inoculant to nitrogen fix properly.

dufflight · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:22 am

Tagasaste grows to 5mtr. What type were you after. And with sharing seeds all you have to do is get some soil around there plants. Or better still get them to dig a small plant up.

earthbound · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:33 pm

Yeah, not much over here..

We just tried to buy the special Western Australian green manure mix from Eden Seeds. They made a special mix for us because of quarantine and now it seems that since printing their 2010 catalogue, they now can;t send the special W.A. mix to W.A. any more... In fact we have seed packets we are selling here from mid last year that in the 2010 catalogue are not for W.A...

Simo · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:27 pm

Isn't there a seed place in Geraldton that does chemical free seeds? I'm sure they had heaps of green manure seeds but i can't remember the name :dunno:

earthbound · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:10 pm

Yes, is it Yilgaren? Damn , I think I posted a link to their site before on the forum but I can;t find them at the moment...

earthbound · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:19 pm

Here they are.... You can download their catalogue on the right hand side of this page..

http://www.permaculturenursery.com.au/s ... dhere.html

dufflight · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:06 pm

earthbound wrote:

Yeah, not much over here..

We just tried to buy the special Western Australian green manure mix from Eden Seeds. They made a special mix for us because of quarantine and now it seems that since printing their 2010 catalogue, they now can;t send the special W.A. mix to W.A. any more... In fact we have seed packets we are selling here from mid last year that in the 2010 catalogue are not for W.A...

Just send them to someone in NSW and have them forward them on. :hello:

earthbound · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:14 pm

I do so like that smiley......... :lol:

muzzy · **Joined:** Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:40 pm **Posts:** 3

I have tree lucerne growing quite well here in drought stricken midwest they are about 4 years old and still doing well I will have a surplus of seeds in spring if anyone is keen. I also have Old man salt bush that is flowering right now this is the best for wind breaks/fodder the lot I reckon these both are a great all round permacultre plants.

The permaculture nursery in Geraldton (Yilgarn) is fantastic, Julie is a great source of knowledge and may I say inspiration. I have a lot of trees and plants form her nursery.

chillidude · **Posted:** Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:09 pm

yeah, I like her too - only place in WA I can get tomatillo seeds !

earthbound · **Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:05 pm

Old man saltbush is a good fodder for sheep and goats as well. so is tree lucerne....

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