What are the most fire resistant or heat resistant? I know obviously none are immune to fire or like it.
We burn our pastures usually 2 years out of every 5 years in late March or early April, and planting things out in the pasture massively increases the space I can plant things.
Apple trees seem to be less prone to damage than cherry and plum trees. Gooseberry bushes oddly seem to thrive out in the middle of the fire burnt areas(probably because the fire partly prunes them), osage orange seem to not care if the tree is cooked or not, mulberry seems to grow semi well (probably because cows try to grub any leaves they can reach and keeps the grass well grazed around it), and walnut trees seem to do just fine as long as they can get large enough to cast some good shade that attracts cows to graze around it.
Any one have any experience or observations what could do better than others?
Here’s a empty area just burnt that burnt good, mostly because cows don’t frequent the area to graze it because there is no shade or water nearby (there’s no trees because we cut them out otherwise it would be grown up in hedge trees)
My mind read fireblight in the title but it was a hallucination. Interesting topic. Generally speaking plants native to fire prone areas are a safe choice.
Persimmons
Nut trees, oaks
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This pdf has a ton of useful information on what edible plants can tolerate what, although it’s primarily for the PNW. Page 127 has a list of fire resistant species.
Bur oak.
Primocane fruiting raspberries / blackberries could be good, assuming the fire isn’t bad enough to harm the roots.
That’s a very interesting list of things on that, thanks!
I was thinking that too. Also I was thinking of trying maybe figs too, because they freeze to the ground evert winter.
That is a good point about blackberries. We have frequent burn cycles in our forests. And numerous wild blackberry varieties thrive to the extreme in burn areas.
I’ve tried for years to get my in ground figs to actually ripen fruit. They freeze to the ground every year and never have enough time to actually ripen anything.
Hmm, I’ll see if it can ripen fruit this year for me. I’ve read things from other people speaking highly of Florea as having fruit ripen sooner than Chicago hardy after freezing off.