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11/20/10, 10:17 PM
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who has osage orange growing?
I would like to find some osage orange balls to soak for seed in the spring. I want to plant a living fence. Who can send me some?
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11/20/10, 10:44 PM
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I have some, not as many as some years, must not be a great year for them. You should just come down, you could dig up small trees and save the years of growning them. > Marc
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11/20/10, 10:53 PM
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Hedge Apples?
How many do you want?
Truck load, 2 truck loads?
Squirrels will get hungry if you take 3 truck loads.
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11/20/10, 11:05 PM
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Kansas has a bumper crop of hedge apples.
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11/20/10, 11:13 PM
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We have gobs of them in fact at present we are tearing out the seedlings. If your in the Joplin, MO. area we'll even help you load them up. The problem is they dont stay in the fence rows, the cows and squirls eat them and scatter seeds every place we dont want them growing. We had a heavy frost and the apples are starting to rot and seeds are falling out of them. We never plant them just throw the hedge apples and in the spring they sprout. If the seeds are all you want PM me and we can mail you some.
Glenn
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11/20/10, 11:35 PM
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The trees sure produce some nice wood---if you have many years you can wait on it.
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11/21/10, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Windy in Kansas
The trees sure produce some nice wood---if you have many years you can wait on it.
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I'd burn it on a campfire, or if I had an outdoor woodburning furnace, but there's no way I'd ever burn it in my house...Way too hot and sparky IMO
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11/21/10, 08:39 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pheasantplucker
I'd burn it on a campfire, or if I had an outdoor woodburning furnace, but there's no way I'd ever burn it in my house...Way too hot and sparky IMO
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Be careful even in an outdoor I was working in a shop the boss wanted firewood, said it would burn anything, long story short I gave him all the hedge he wanted he warped the door. I use a very small piece once in a while.
Glenn
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11/21/10, 10:05 AM
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In Remembrance
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I'd burn it on a campfire, or if I had an outdoor woodburning furnace, but there's no way I'd ever burn it in my house...Way too hot and sparky IMO
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I meant for woodworking. Very hard on tools but is a pretty wood.
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11/21/10, 11:50 AM
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I would like about a priority box full!! Let me know how much and if you have paypal!!
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11/21/10, 12:09 PM
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I had to look it up to see what it was. We call them Bois D'arc here.
The balls are supposed to be good roach repellents. Around here lots of people just put them in the bottom of cabinets, etc.
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11/21/10, 02:19 PM
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It's called Osage Orange here, and Windy is correct the wood is beautiful and durable. We have lots of the "hedge apples" on the ground here too. Hedge trees make great fence posts and last longer than a lot of metal posts.
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11/21/10, 03:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Trixie
I had to look it up to see what it was. We call them Bois D'arc here.
The balls are supposed to be good roach repellents. Around here lots of people just put them in the bottom of cabinets, etc.
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I never tried them for roaches, I was told they repel mice WRONG they seem to draw mice and squirrels.
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11/21/10, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by luvrulz
I would like about a priority box full!! Let me know how much and if you have paypal!!
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I will PM you on Monday.
Glenn
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11/21/10, 03:51 PM
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Primitive bow makers love the stuff
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11/21/10, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by glenn amolenaar
I never tried them for roaches, I was told they repel mice WRONG they seem to draw mice and squirrels.
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That is why they repel roaches the mice and squirrels eat them and clean up everything else along the way once the food is gone the roaches move on.
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Primitive bow makers love the stuff
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They are a strong wood that will bend and not break so yes old time bow makers use them.
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11/21/10, 06:16 PM
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Common name Bow Dok or Hedge Apple 
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11/21/10, 06:21 PM
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so would planting a living fence to keep livestock in with these be a bad idea? are they invasive? I have never seen any around here though.
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11/21/10, 08:52 PM
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Can I highjack this thread?
Wondering if osage orange will grow in my area...... zone 4a/b I beleive.
I want a living fence too!!! 
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11/21/10, 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by glenn amolenaar
I will PM you on Monday.
Glenn
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The seeds or the hedge apples - either way, I'd be tickled! They didn't do well here this year.... TYTYTY!
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