![]() Nothing can be done about that but to keep it mowed, or let the animals mow it for you.īiochar sounds like a good idea as well. After 15 years there are a squillion seeds on the ground already. If you have straighter pieces, they can go into hugelkultur or buried wood beds whole, but they are hard to stack. ![]() It has made some really great stuff for building the garden with. It's a bit of a pain to chip, especially the twistier pieces, but we did it! We piled it up and let it sit for about a year or so, and boy does it break down nicely. Along with native shrubs, nonnative shrubs such as common gorse, Scotch broom, and French broom colonize these sites. The broom debris was chipped and spread on-site as mulch and weed suppression. The Man cut it off at ground level with a saw. French and Scotch broom patches occur along both sides of the slope. It was crazy tall and thick, and there were parts of our new property we couldn't even get to until it was cut down. 15 years worth of 'Old Growth' Broom forest. You have exactly the same situation that we faced when we bought two years ago. I just need some direction and/or some ideas on how to use this resource.I'm a bit bumfuzzled on this one. Although something tells me I'll be pulling little ones every stinking year until I die. I'm reticent to build beds with them.I do not want to be pulling scotchbroom until I'm 80. They spread by seed, I have gathered, and the ones I'm cutting are silly with seeds. I don't want to burn the piles, I want to use the biomass. They do wilt and settle relatively fast, so they don't stay dangerously huge for long, but. I have only cleared about 1/4 of it so far and the piles are monstrous. ![]() Super-fertilization One of the reasons broom does so well is because its roots have tiny nodules full of bacteria called rhizobia that have the ability to add nutrients to the soil by turning nitrogen (N2) from the air into ammonia (NH3), an essential nutrient that. Cutting French broom in June in Mendocino County at 5-8 cm above soil surface resulted in extensive resprouting (Bossard et al. So cutting isn't my problem - it's what to do with the giant, crazy tall piles of scotchbroom that are now littering my pasture. French broom is an evergreen, meaning it keeps its leaves all year long. It hasn't been touched in probably 15 years and some of it is about 10 -13 feet tall it looms heavy over my head as I cut it down. I have heard that scotchbroom is a natural nitrogen fixer and that, overall, it can be good for the soil (I only heard that recently - I have much more reading to do on this.) but I am clearing pasture for animals, food, orchard, etc, so I need the scotchbroom gone, pronto. When we bought our farm this last March the whole lower pasture was consumed with scotchbroom.
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