Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:33:11 -0600 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
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I am running an experiment Kevin of a pet-theory of mine. I believe
the maximum best conditions of an apple-fruit orchard is to plant
the trees 20 feet apart but to have some pine or spruce tree every other
one. The evergreen makes the soil of the best proper PH for the nearby
fruit trees. I have a case example of this now wherein my best pear tree
is smack up against a blue spruce.

I was looking yesterday for a one word to describe that pattern. The best
word I can think of is a checkerboard. A checkerboard array where the
white square is a fruittree and the black square is a evergreen pine or
spruce
tree. And to have trees that mature at about the same height.

Another one word is "alternate". To alternate the rows with fruittrees and
evergreens.

I believe the maximum growing conditions for a organic fruit orchard where
no chemicals are applied would have a checkerboard array of evergreens
with fruittrees in order to maintain optimum soil PH.

Archimedes Plutonium,
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies