In permaculture, tagasaste (tree lucerne) is used as a nitrogen-fixing tree on large sites and rural properties, but it can grow around 5-7m tall and equally wide, which is way too large for smaller urban properties. Luckily for Australian permaculture gardeners, we have a much smaller nitrogen-fixing tree available which works much better in small-scaleContinue reading “Permaculture Plants – Australian Indigo, the Nitrogen Fixing Tree for Small Sites, an Alternative to Tagasaste for Urban Gardens”
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Permaculture Plants – Tagasaste, the Nitrogen Fixing Tree for Large Sites
Permaculture is all about energy-efficient design, and if you can add a single design element to a site that can perform many functions, then that’s an incredible gain in efficiency! A tree that could do almost everything would be incredible, but it doesn’t exist. The next best thing would be a tree that does aContinue reading “Permaculture Plants – Tagasaste, the Nitrogen Fixing Tree for Large Sites”