Hello,
good wells are rare here in Crete, and apart from winter (until may/early
June), where during most years all cereals and legumes can be sowed and
harvested until the dry season begins, only one main plant is watered during
summer from many slightly brackish wells: the olive.
With this trick (and EC money for growing olives, unfortunately) even the
most desert-like fields can be made to yield a crop (with brackish water)
...
No wonder the olive (lasting for ages, too, if cut properly) was the
Minoans' main holy tree!
And if you want to find out more, just ask all those farmers who then kill
with roundup or the like whatever grows below the watered trees unwantedly
during the summer what they want to kill most...
Best from the southernmost end of the European Community
Sabine Beckmann
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Ramsay" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 7:33 PM
Subject: Salt tolerant plants
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Sorry to bother you all on a Monday but I am looking for
> information/references on salt tolerant (agricultural) plants and I
thought
> I would see if anyone knew of any. I am a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser
> University in Canada and I am working at Caesarea in Israel. The
reservoir
> at the site appears to have become slightly brackish in the later period
of
> its Roman occupation (3rd & 4th centuries) and could have only been used
> for industrial or agricultural purposes. I already have evidence for
> barley being the majority crop during this period but I would greatly
> appreciate any assistance anyone could offer in the way of references or
> information on any other salt/drought tolerant species.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jennifer Ramsay
>
> Dept. of Archaeology
> Simon Fraser University
> 8888 University Drive
> Burnaby, B.C. V5A-1S6
> CANADA
>
>
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