[Ag-eq] The Honey Locust trees

[Jewel]

I have changed my mind:  I do that as often as I change a lot of other things:  about the trees.
I am going back to my original plan of using the truncated barrels as sheep keepouts.  Why should I 
worry myself into a lather about what will happen to the honey locusts after I am, no longer, in a 
position to bother.
Cutting the ends off the barrels is proving to be a herculean task, but, like Hercules, before his 
woman got her barber to give him a short back and sides while he was asleep:  [must have been a very 
deep sleeper or perhaps he was dead drunk!]  I will stick at it!  A huge stalecmite grows from Just 
a single drop of water dripping from the roof of a cabe!

         Jewel

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From: "McCulloch" <ralphies at xtra.co.nz>
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Jewel If the roots grow through the drainage holes and end up quite large they night block the holes 
thus causing a problem with draining.
Bev

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Jewel
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Bev!  I would anticipate that the roots will find their way out through the drainage holes in the
barrels, but the root growth would still be restricted, to some degree, and this would be reflected
in the size of the mature tree.
The honey locust is such a lovely tree with so many beneficial properties that I hope that they will
be spared the chainsaw and will, if necessary, simply be relocated.

          Jewel
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From: "McCulloch" <ralphies at xtra.co.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 4:42 PM
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Subject: RE: [nz-blindgardeners] The Honey Locust trees

Hi Jewel
Hopefully the people you bought the barrels off might know what was their use before or someone with
sight could tell you if there is writing on the sides. If you grow the trees in them they might
keep the trees a bit smaller.  This can be good if you don't want them to reach the sky.  When I
plant my fruit trees I don't dig the hole the size the instructions tell me so the roots can't grow
thus keeping the trees smaller.
Bev

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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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