AKG101 - Shamrocks and Clover

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Four-leaf clover, photo supplied by AKG listener Leslie Monk Downey

If you want to grow your own Shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day next year then you’ll need to sow a clover species. The most commonly used ones are Trifolium repens and Trifolium dubium (aka T. minus).

If you’re lucky then you may also grow you own four-leaved clover, but even if you don’t those clover plants are really useful – as a ground cover green manure, fixing nitrogen in the soil, and feeding bees, animals and even you!

We also have another segment from AKG Correspondents Robb and Jackie from the Sustainable Living blog, and this time they’re talking about permaculture zones. They mention a fantastic book – The Woodland Way – by Ben Law, who we visited in Prickly Nut Woods in episode 92.

Don’t forget that the closing date for my birthday book giveaway is 16th March – listen to episode 99 for details on how to enter.

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Posted 13 March 2010, 07:21.  

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