Common Gorse

Thank you for adding your spotting LauraMaria. Please keep them coming, it's fascinating building the collection.

like i said people tradicionaly made the animal beds whith gorse, the animal make there necessitys in the stable,they put more gorse in top and so one,i saw stables whith a meter higth or more,of this smely misture,every year before working the land they distribut this misture all over the field an them they plow and is how it's made.it's organic but like is made whithout oxigen the bacterias are anerobics, its not so good for the soil(has to many nocive bacterias),the ideal is to make compost whith gorse and other vegetable remains,in a aerobic way(mixing the misture sevral times so the oxigen can penetrate in)and use him only when is complitly decomposed.but the traditional way is like i discribe first

Antonio, do you know how to make such a fertilizer? it sounds like a good use, and better than using chemical poisons to keep the gorse down.

here in my region the gorse is used like shebe said,to make animal farm bed's and to make traditional organic fertelizer Ok Laura sorry for the question,but your name is writen like we in portuguese do :-)

I must say, I've always thought it is beautiful when in bloom, carpeting the sea-facing hillsides. Do you have problems with salal, imported from North America? It likes a similar environment.

So is gorse considered the invasive enemy there that it's known as on the West Coast of North America? It definitely crowds out other species, and is thorny, but I've read that it can be used as fodder for some farm animals.

this one we have in portugal to:-) sorry to ask,but are you portuguese?