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Post by MikeH on Oct 19, 2014 13:33:03 GMT -5
Anyone use sea buckthorn in their hedgerows? It's pretty thorny but not very thick. You'd have to have a fairly large mass of it. It's a good plant to have in any event because of its multifunctionality - nitrogen fixing, nutraceutical, LOTS of Vitamin C & E, leaves can be dried for a tea. We had our first harvest of any size this year - the berries were very juicy and tasted like unsweetened orange juice. A very acceptable plant. I'm very pleased with it. But you do need male and female plants. From seed to fruit apparently is about 7 years so that's when you'd find out the sex of your seedlings. |
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Post by synergy on Oct 22, 2014 16:19:59 GMT -5
Aye, I think I better buy a few sexed plants from the nursery to start cuttings or layering to reproduce then ? I had bought sexed plants before , to the delight of one of my horses whom molested it to death. My hedge is a s-l-o-w building shelterbelt that will likely be several varieties of plants interplanted . Good to hear of this plants value. Now I grow things out in a pot nursery area and have been cutting down on horses.
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Post by darrenabbey on Jan 26, 2015 11:30:13 GMT -5
Also bois d' arc. Locally that's pronounced "bō dark". (I don't speak french, but I would have to wager that that's wrong.) There's a town by that name near here. I found out while researching these trees for living fence that it means wood of the bow. Apparently, it's strong and flexable, the best north american wood for bow making. I guess some folks prefer it over yew. Some folks even spell it "Bodark" and have lost any memory connecting the name to its French origin. |
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 26, 2015 13:46:53 GMT -5
I had wanted an Osage Orange Hedge for a long time. Leo was afraid of the spreading...so I'm working on a willow instead.
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 1, 2015 20:42:21 GMT -5
Today we got the first of the living hedges planted: foothillfarm.blogspot.com/2015/02/winter-planting-2015.htmlI mowed, Leo tilled and ran the irrigation. I laid out the plants and entered them into the log as Leo poinked them into the ground. Yes that's a technical term resulting from the noise of pushing a willow into a wet and gooey place. Note that this was done today. How dry the soil is. I didn't think we'd have to irrigate to plant, but there you are. Welcome to my drought, please bring rain. I'm washing the cars and wearing my pjs inside out. |
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Post by steev on Feb 6, 2015 1:33:24 GMT -5
You wear pj's? Well, there's the problem.
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 6, 2015 21:58:10 GMT -5
Well, I got put on something to streak to the kitchen....there's youngsters about and I don't want to scare them.
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