[Scpg] -SBOrgGdn- Gopher Stopper Clover -- a nitrogen fixer that deters gophers!

Tue Feb 17 14:25:25 PST 2009

I just received the following from Ron and Rincon-Vitova:

Hello Linda,

After further checking it seems that I was a little  mistaken, the active 
agents in Melilotus indica are coumarin and dicoumarol.  Coumadin is a brand name 
for warfarin, a chemically modified coumarin, that is  an anticoagulant.. 

There are reports that eating large quantities of  fresh or dried herb can be 
harmful to  livestock.

happiness,

Ron

In a message dated 2/15/2009 11:14:14 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
loren at sborganics.com writes:

You can  find this plant growing all over the place.  _picture_ 
(http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=&enlarge=0000+0000+0505+0019)    I 
am sure you could collect your own seed if you wanted.
It has a single  stem and it reaches about 2 ft high.  I think it just deters 
gophers from  eating itself, not other plants, kind of like gopher spurge.  
If you did  a 3 ft wide strip around your garden it might keep gophers out.  
But the  unknown good benefit of that would be lots of nitrogen rich  biomass!

Loren Luyendyk
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:36:07  -0500
Subject: -SBOrgGdn- Gopher Stopper Clover -- a nitrogen fixer that  deters 
gophers!

Last night at the meeting of the Santa Barbara Rose Society, we had a  
speaker from Rincon-Vitova who shared a lot of info on beneficial insects and  other 
organic methods.

One I thought people might be especially interested in is Gopher Stopper  
Clover (Melilotus indica or sourclover) which can be ordered from  Rincon-Vitova. 
 It's a winter-annual legume in Calif and flowers April -  October.  Contains 
coumarin, which is toxic to rodents (and livestock, if  you happen to have 
any -- so care is required).  

It's definitely what permaculturists call a "stacking" plant - multiple  
functions.  It has been used as a green manure and cover crop in citrus  and other 
orchards.  It improve heavy soils because of its deep roots and  increases 
the water-holding capacity of all soils.

Rincon-Vitova is at _www.rinconvitova.www_ (http://www.rinconvitova.com/) 

Linda

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