Re: [nafex] [permaculture] Permaculture in viticulture?

I have had excellent results in southeast Texas stacking grapes—both muscadines and Euro-American hybrid bunch grapes on 8-10 ft trellis wires, with blackberries staked and topped at 5 feet underneath and sweet potato spinach understorried below the blackberries. The sweet potato ground cover was suggested by Bill Mollison in a conversation in the early nineties and it works well. The grapes here do not get much in the way of leaves until most of the spring blackberry fruiting is done, and the sweet potato spinach dose not need a lot of light.

Sweet potato spinach is a relatively little know sweet potato cultivar with inedible roots that do well in soils that ordinary sweet potatoes do poorly in. It is popular here in Asian communities and like all sweets, is easily reproduced from cuttings.

Bob Randall
Houston

> On Apr 20, 2015, at 9:30 AM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe there will be answers from this group.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sonia Ghiggioli <sonia@vinetime.com.au>
> Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 6:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Permaculture in viticulture?
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
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> cestin <cestin@...> writes:
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>>
>> Does anyone have any information about permaculture practices in
>> viticulture? I know that many permaculture principles of encouraging
>> biodiversity and soil health make sense. But I'm curious about more
>> extensive applications - are there "guild plantings" that might enhance
>> wine grape quality? Does comfrey have a beneficial effect when planted
>> near grape vines, etc...
>>
>
> Dear Chuck,
>
> did you get any responses back from Australia regarding this topic. I'd love
> to know what
> information you've discovered so I can trial it. Biodiversity and soil
> health are
> very important to me.
>
> Kind regards,
> Sonia
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