Got to meet Hedgerow, and some of his Hedge!
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Mulberry?
Are you sure that "hedge" isn't just mulberry in disquise?
Looks a little suspicious. :msp_sneaky:
Are you sure that "hedge" isn't just mulberry in disquise?
Looks a little suspicious. :msp_sneaky:
Hedgerow
HACK
The stuff steve got? Positively hedge...
OK, I guess. But if it turns burnt orange in a couple of weeks and no hedge apples are lying around for proof... :msp_unsure:
Unless your like three or four years old, it take 40 years or more before you got a harvestable tree of hedge from seed.
There fast growers but not that fast.
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80' of Hedge...
... was growing in my back yard on the back border in Normal, IL. That stuff was mean. Huge thorns, and monstrous green hedge apples fell every year. The wood was hard as nails and strong as an ox. I recall hanging a pair of gymnastic rings from a horizontal branch for exercise. Whenever I jumped on them, the branch hardly budged, and I weighed 180 at the time.
Some say that hedgerow was used to contain livestock. It would have been impossible for a cow to walk through that border. The thorns were enormous, some at least 2" long and sharp enough to sew seams with.
... was growing in my back yard on the back border in Normal, IL. That stuff was mean. Huge thorns, and monstrous green hedge apples fell every year. The wood was hard as nails and strong as an ox. I recall hanging a pair of gymnastic rings from a horizontal branch for exercise. Whenever I jumped on them, the branch hardly budged, and I weighed 180 at the time.
Some say that hedgerow was used to contain livestock. It would have been impossible for a cow to walk through that border. The thorns were enormous, some at least 2" long and sharp enough to sew seams with.
Mac88
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That's how it picked up the name "hedge". I've got hedge, and I've got mulberry. They don't look anything alike
except the color. ;o)
Hedgerow
HACK
I'll do you one better doc... The hedge tree I cut that log out of has no hedge apples on it... And the wood will dry dark... Almost brown as it seasons... And yet??? It's still hedge... :hmm3grin2orange:
zogger
Tree Freak
That's cool,. I don't care. Paying it forward for the following generations after the next "carrington event" or whatever might happen. Be good to have some growing around here. I was thinking more of the living fence idea anyway, with just the trims for some wood.
I've never seen it offered for sale around here in any of the firewood listings, so it must be rare.
Steve2910
ArboristSite Guru
I've yet to be successful getting them to germinate. Harvested fruit from different trees, trying to overcome the male/ female thing. Most of what I've read said to freeze/ thaw a few times, that didn't help...
Anybody have any insight?
zogger
Tree Freak
Thanks man! I'll catch ya on shipping and maybe I have some swap you might want? Garden seed we save (I'm getting some nice biggggg watermerlons right now, our seed for a lot of years), hey, maybe some fatlighter? I can go yank one out with the tractor and cut up the choice pieces. Indoor plants? I've got baby aloes that come from a mama plant I bought in the 80s.
Anyway, ya, I'll PM you and you let me know what you might want. Fun is fun!
Hedgerow
HACK
You got PINE KNOTS!!??? Damn skippy I want one!!!
Arbonaut
Go Climb It
If there's somthin' normal in Illinois, I never noticed it!
Steve2910
ArboristSite Guru
How many do you REALLY want? One doesn't seem like enough...
Hedgerow
HACK
Throw the hedge apples in a pile by the fence... Just imagine the last place you'd want a tree.. Then put it there... Let em rot over winter... Step in em and cuss at em every so often... They like that... See what sprouts out of the pile of goo... Then cuss at it once in a while too...
They seem to like being where they aren't wanted...
Hedgerow
HACK
As much as will fit in a box from GA...
Mac88
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Locked up politicians? I rest my case.
Steve2910
ArboristSite Guru
My offer stands on the Hickory, I have Pine knots as well. I also have big boxes... It'll be fun when the girl behind the counter gives me the "Anything hazardous, fragile, liquid, flammable, potentially dangerous... speech. "Ma'am, I'm mailing some firewood to a guy in Missouri"...
zogger
Tree Freak
Not really knots (that is some english construct with a name I forget now...), it's the like taproot/heartwood area from just a little above ground, then mostly below. The ones from rotted stumps here are at ~ 40 years old since they were logged and are hard shiny and smell like..well..pine, like solid pinesol. *most* of the stump rots away but leaves this like stalagmite thing sticking up. Light it with a match it burns hot. Neat stuff, sort of fast growing coal or something. Appears to be impervious to rot/insects whatever.
Of course you are funning with me you proly got some around you, too....
tell ya what else I haven't been able to find around here, morels! WTH?? Ain't seen a one.
Our cabin is the oldest inhabited structure around here, and it appears to be originally made with heartpine. You just about can't pound a nail into it. You mostly just don't think of pine as being a "hard" wood, but dang, some sure is.
Most of the baby trees we do we just use cuttings, good results from most species so far. That's all fast growing spring shoots though, they are the best.
Hedgerow
HACK
We got no pine knots here... No pine trees... No nothing... The Arkansas fellas call it "fat wood"
Guarranteed to light with a match...
I'd love to have some...
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