[Ag-eq] The Honey Locust trees

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Jewel.
That sounds like a good idea.  Will the roots have plenty of room, though?
A 60-foot tree probably has roots to match, or even bigger.
Vinegar, especially industrial-grade vinegar, is a potent weed-killer, so be
careful.  Maybe give your barrels a good wash and airing.
Tracy


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Subject: [Ag-eq] The Honey Locust trees

I asked my local garden shop if they stocked anything that would protect my
seedling trees against
the predations of my sheep, and I was told that they did;  however, when I
saw what they had, such 
barricades might have served if one wanted to keep pesky varmints such as
rabbits away from veggie 
plants, but, sheep?  no fear!  They would have laughed themselves into a fit
and when they had 
recovered their breaths, two
chomps and my seedlings would have been history!
What I wanted was stout plastic or steel drums, and these I found I could
get from a recycling depot
here in Gore.
What I was going to do was to cut both ends out and drop the remaining body
over the seedlings, but
then, I had a better idea.
These drums are BIG...BIG...BIG!!! easily the size of an old-fashioned 40
gallon oil drum, and I had
heard of large trees being grown in ditto barrels:    honey locusts can grow
to 60 feet or more in
height:   so that is what I will do.
Cut the top off, and put some goodish-sized holes in the bottom for drainage
part fill the barrel
with soil and plant the seedling.
In this way, when I am no longer here to protect them;  rather than someone
cutting them down, the
barrel, plus its occupant, can, simply be picked up by an excavator and
transferred to a new site.
There is nothing on the drums indicating what was, originally, in them, but
when I drilled a hole, I
could smell vinegar, so that should be fine.  I wouldn't want to plant my
babies in barrels that had
contained Roundup etc.

         Jewel 


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