Quiara asks about develop true yams upon pines :
Hi ! I ’m from South Louisiana . I ’m curious if you’re able to use pines for a support trellis ? How acidulous is the dirt underneath after being mulched with its own pine tree needles for years ? Of course our soil is sandy and acidic anyway … I ’m seek to think of ways the large pines all over my chiliad could be useful .
There is some debate over whether pine tree make territory acid , or whether they thrive in blank space where the soil is already blistering .
My stake is it ’s a combination of both . Pineland soil is an unfriendly home for most garden crops . I ’ve never seen yams mixed in with pines , though I have see smilax vine and wild muscadines .
That said , my Quaker Rick grow a potted yam up the side of a pine Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in North / Central Florida :
And 11 long time ago , Marabou Thomas posted a TV of even larger yam plant growing up pine Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree :
But they were n’t in the native soil , they were in pots . That ’s an easy room to get good yams in bad soil , though : just put some yam in big pots or grow old bag and send them up the sides of pine trees .
You might also have luck with turn over a hole and fill it with compost , then planting a yam plant bulbil or slice of origin in it .
Pines are , obviously , also useful for lumber : a friend with a saw mill cut back the planks we used to construct one of our big bookshelves .
Pineland soils also suffer eatable and useful species include :
SparkleberryDeerberrySaw palmettoWild and cultivated blueberry of all sortsBlackberryGallberryYaupon hollyMaypopNative pawpawsNopale cactusPersimmonMayhaw
… and some others I ’ve forgotten .
If lifespan give you pines , work around them . you could also add lots of pulverized limestone to areas you clear and improve the territory enough to grow pasture for grazing animals . I ’ve seen some really nice forage chip at out of an arena of direful acid pineland land via liming and graze .
Pines may make decent trellis for cultivated muscadine grapes and other vine that do n’t beware the soil . It ’s surely worth a try .
