i can't take it anymore

[Scott Beitzel]

after looking forosage orange trees here in westrn maryland for the last year i have only been able to locate 6 trees with in 50 miles of the house and of course these are located in someones yard so harvest is not gonna happen so this evening i stopped at one location not far from the house and picked me up an arm load of the apples and brought them home . now the hard part i mite just try to plant some of the seeds but i don't really know to go about it the sites i checked on the internet ( about 300) all have a differant approch to them but most of them say to let the in a bucket on the porch all winter adn plant them in the spring  but i would like to control the planting part of them and not just have a heavy row but more of a nice row gonna plant them on the edge of my yard .
has anyone did this and what seemed to be the best way to plant them or to go about it .

thanks ,
Scott

[Killdeer]

Have you thought about hickory or black locust?
Just thinking...

Killdeer

[Kentucky Jeff]

Good lord....I have Osage Orange trees all over the farm  Could fill 18 wheelers with OO wood....

[stujay]

I've had limited sucess by drying the seeds out then planting in a pot with planting soil. I then put the pot outdoors through the fall and winter and see what comes up in the spring. I get about 50% becoming a seedling and about 50% of them living to be planted by late summer. Our Wa. state climate is wet and mild.

[Scott Beitzel]

some guys have all the luck jeff lol.

and killdeer i sure could find plenty of locust and hickory . but just like when i decided that trad archery was for me it had to be hard and the wife calls (it differant) from anyone else and i guess thats the way i am .
like this year id like to make me another bow maybe and try some wooden arrows and maybe with help from above nap me some arrow heads the last two i have never done before so they will be all new lol.
but thats part of my life fun and hard at the same time .

let the games begin lol.

Scott

[Mudd]

Starting Osage is really easy.

Put the hedge apples in a 5 gallon bucket and fill so the water is at least 2 to 3 inches over the top of them.

Place you bucket in some place without any heat allowing the bucket to freeze and thaw until next spring.

You should have a soft mush by next spring. Add water to the bucket and then using something like a baseball bat or whatever will work pulverize whatever is in the bucket making a slurry.

Now dig a shallow trench and pour your slurry along the length of your trench and cover with soil.

Keep it watered and you'll have more Osage saplings than you'll know what to do with.

In years gone by that was how Texans built fence..lol, Head high and hog tight!

God bless,Mudd

[hvyhitter]

Check the local feed store add board for osage fence posts or put a card on their board that you are looking for osage.......

[ksbowman]

They're a noxous weed in Kansas. I can't kill them and locust fast enough in the pastures.

[far rider]

Mudd,
You sure have a lot of very useful stuff rolling around in your noggin!

[Scott Beitzel]

that mudd is full of advice but not oil at times . i can recall one cool feb a few years back in tenn. had to do with a honda generator and a cold mudd lol.

but thanks for the info fellas and will try to get me some tools rounded up or made  for this winter project .

Scott