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Wonderful mixture of techniques in this UK garden.
youtube.com/watch?v=2UVwfqPa4fg

5:55 has an explanation of syntropic farming. The theory is when densely planted support trees are pruned near the food tree; they send signals into the soil alerting to the damage, and this signal to put on fast above ground growth is picked by the food tree, which then grows quickly.

Does anyone know if there is evidence for this plant signaling and behaviour?
#permaculture
#Syntropic
#biology
#soilmicrobiome

Handweeding and adding *Lomandra hystrix *plus a few assorted trees into a SE QLD #bushregeneration #riparian trial site, a mix of a #Miyawaki style on #Syntropic rows. All grown from seed in a home nursery, and watered once at planting time. No fertiliser or any amendments in field, soaked in seaweed and worm castings the day of planting. No herbicide will ever be used. The 2m *Commersonia bartramia* on right of frame of Photo 1+2 is 4 months old.

The resulting tree growth will be thinned to best performers while maintaining species #biodiversity and spacing. Some will be volunteered for #biomass production through #pollard or a form thereof, more often than not the faster-growing pioneer species. You may think the spacing is crazy but if I grow 50 tubes from the same seed batch, there may be 5 great performers, 30 OK, 5 poor, and 10 thinned in nursery. Even where they are planted onsite could be a difference in growth rates.

Photos 3+4 are 3 months old, have had less rainfall, and are at tractor spacing if that was ever required for mowing management. Just a test between closer and wider spacing across the site.

This is part of a 40m wide, 10 row system that is 1.5 years at the oldest. As the system matures, herbs and shade-loving species will be added when the weather is good (maybe after #elnino).

Rather than call it Miyawaki/Syntropic mix, how about something like S.A.P - Successional Accelerated Planting? Something tree-related? Any ideas?