hi csd

you are writing of research on xeroculture, perhaps you can help me

what I'm looking for are pioneer plants which can subsist in deserts (e.
g. acacias) and by which one could start some form of re-naturalization
of deserts

I have a friend (farmer) in Sicily who suffers from drying out the soil
and who does not know which plants to set for getting natural mould
(without permanent irrigation)

when I was there I detected a great shrub of wild blackberry, the
remnants of which could form a starting mean for garden mould

cheers kauhl