Actually, it looks like the answer is no.
Most members of the Legume family are know for producing nodules that have a symbiotic relationship with certain bacteria called rhizobia in the soil which fix Nitrogen. Since a lot of plants, like fruit trees, require Nitrogen, companion planting with members of the legume family is popular.
Because I am planting so many fruit trees, I was going to plant some Redbud trees (Cercis canadensis) near them due to the fact that they are members of the legume family. However,, apparently Redbuds are one member of the legume family that lacks this capability.
As I show in the video above, Redbuds still have plenty of good uses on the homestead, so I'll be planting the trees for sure. I just won't be planting them near the fruit trees to fix Nitrogen in the soil. I share more about that in the video below. Enjoy!
IS THE REDBUD TREE A NITROGEN FIXER?
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here is a list of other trees and plants that fix nitrogen
http://homesteadandgardens.com/soil-blog/wp-content/uploads/nitrogen-fixing-plants-chart.pdf
or just pee on them. ;)
Thats another good source! Imagine all the urine and manure we send to water treatment plants that could off set fertilizer use!
Actually China already imports human waste from Hong Kong for use as fertilizer. You know where milorganite comes from right?
There is actually a shortage of it right now.
https://www.milorganite.com/faq
As a long time south eastern Wisconsin resident, I am intimately familar with Milorganite! In fact, we farmers and farmer wannabes have always got some jollies knowing that the city of Milwaukee was selling us back....well, our own poop!
apparently that shit is a hot commodity!
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Well here's a thought.... how about Siberian pea shrubs which do fix nitrogen I believe and are hardy and produce eatable seeds. Old timers used to plant them around chicken yards as the peas shatter out the chickens will eat them. Our hen house was put up about 90 years ago and it has Siberian peas planted around it. For an annual legume fava beans are not so fussy as beans about good soil and make a taller (3-4 ft) plant.
Interesting! I had not heard of those.
if you will be having the animals foraging around the trees base, how about Lucerne /Alfalfa growing there.
Here it is grown as an animal feed, either dried and compressed into pellets,
which may beyond you without the necessary machines. cut. sun dried and bailed for winter feed, or as the oldies did, cut, sun dried and made into haystacks for winter feed.
Great suggestion!
Great post @papa-pepper and well discovered. Most legumes have to die to release the nitrogen from their nodules into the soil too . That type of tree will look beautiful anywhere - they are super pretty 🤗🌴🌈💚🦋
Well, much easier is to prune them. All/much of the nitrogen in the chemical.composition of the leaves and branches will have been sequestered, and now you have that decomposing in your compost or soil. The leaves that fall have 'free' nitrogen as well, it's actually an oxymoron but the 'free' (for us) nitrogen has been trapped.
Yeah, I was planning on killing them in about three years.
I like eating flowers. I would always do that in Indiana.
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