Honey Locust have all of the posatives you mentioned. One draw back is the
thorns. They will go through a tire! A draw back to relying on trees for
shade is the concentration of nutrients in the area of the tree.
Jim Ahrens
West Branch, IA
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Oogie McGuire wrote:
> Anyone have any experiences or comments on using honey locust trees
> as shade trees in pastures?
>
> We need trees to lamb under trees to prevent eagles from killing the
> lambs. Also, we've found that our sheep gain better and in general
> are much happier and less stressed with shade in mid summer. Our
> extension agent has suggested honey locust as a tree to plant for
> shade in our area. In addition to being fast growing, tolerate
> alkaline soils and fairly tough she mentioned that the pods are
> edible so in times of drought the sheep might be able to be fed on
> the fruits. Also, they are legumes so increase soil nitrogen rather
> than remove it.
>
> Sounds great but I'd like to get some real world experience to
> compare with. <G>
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