Tree Lupin | root trainer seedling

Description

Nitrogen fixer, low shrub, 1.5m, covering the ground well, fast growing perennial mostly although it sometimes dies after flowering, self seeds and self protects young seedling coming up underneath it, yellow flowers all summer, seeds edible by poultry, stunning yellow in forest garden Spring to Autumn Great for biomass/carbon production in forest garden.

Forest Gardens are orchards designed in such a way so the needs of the heavy bearing heavy feeding fruit trees are taken care of in the design.

We do this by:

• Ensuring no more than 60% of the canopy space is taken up by heavy feeders. We prefer 40%.
• For every square metre of heavy feeder canopy there is 0.8 of a square metre of nitrogen fixer.
• For every square metre of heavy feeder there is 1 comfrey plant.
• You have all seven (7) layers of the forest garden present.
• You have as wide a range of mineral accumulators present.

For more details about this see the Koanga Design Your Own Forest Garden Booklet