tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5992787439074403830.post7177396959646021032..comments2024-01-13T19:43:05.161+00:00Comments on Allotment Garden: Dynamic Accumulators? This gobbledegook does nothing for the reputation of permaculture. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5992787439074403830.post-30197248901674711252015-02-02T20:47:19.358+00:002015-02-02T20:47:19.358+00:00Rodger, believe it or not I have dug up a number o...Rodger, believe it or not I have dug up a number of iron poles on the new allotment. Why they were buried there is anyone’s guess; neither the Saxon hoard nor the heavy metals that I was hoping for. The permaculturists say that the problem can be the solution and this is a philosophy I like. So the iron bars are going to be used to hold some pallets vertically as a niffy way of storing my canes. <br /><br />As to adventitious roots; absolutely right. I was not writing very clearly here and was still trying to establish in my own mind why turf is so fertile and why grass seems to accumulate relatively 'large' amounts of nitrogen. Many monocotyledons start off with a normal 'root' as they germinate but this soon withers away and is replaced by adventitious roots that form from buds from nodes at the crown. As you know the stem of grass is very short. These adventitious roots are very fibrous and form a dense sward full of roots. This denseness of root compounded by stolons, rhizomes and ramets seems to be a highly efficient Hoover of nitrogen. One could call it a dynamic accumulation; however I would not use the word dynamic in relation to plants without taking a lot of advice. <br />The point is; short, thin, fibrous roots accumulate relatively lots of nitrogen compared to long, thick tap rooted ones. <br />Anthony Cuthberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02875794858885289856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5992787439074403830.post-17286240324808526192015-02-02T09:18:06.721+00:002015-02-02T09:18:06.721+00:00You are absolutely right Anthony, there is a lot o...You are absolutely right Anthony, there is a lot of gobbledegook around.<br />I think the stuff about using plants to extract heavy metals is very interesting and there are various patents around about this for cleaning land and mining!<br />I have recently solved a heavy metal problem of my own by digging up ancient buried metallic garbage! I will be stating in my eventual post that it would not have happened to you . Your double digging would have found it!<br />My understanding of the definition of adventitious roots are that they are roots of 'unusual origin, e.g. direct on stems like ivy roots) and the term is not synonymous with fibrous roots?Roger Brook - No Dig Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210160273591839142noreply@blogger.com