Weaving

[Daisy]

Easy willow plant trellis. I snagged the picture from Home Depot. I can make that for much less than $32.View attachment 15364

That is really cool!! I might try it. I hadn't even considered anything like that, the only thing that had crossed my pea brain (hehe @wyoDreamer) was to weave some portions to cover the degrading garden edging. I pulled a strand along the top of the ducks gate which is only chicken wire, just to have a line of site on it. If between two solid points is could certainly be shaped into fencing.

These ides are great! So cool to hear ya have all done some in your time.

 

[Hinotori]

I haven't tried wattle fencing yet. They look really neat. You could make panels and then attach them where needed.

 

[CrealCritter]

Your talking of vines and weaving brought this to mind .

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When your weaving material can grow as much as 2 foot a day on can do a lot of weaving .

Kudzu is pretty wild stuff. I wouldn't leave my truck window cracked around that stuff. Since I've heard stories from loggers in NC, about kudzu filling up the cab of a log skidder over a long weekend. While traveling on some of the NC back roads, you can see where kudzu has taken over forests. I don't know how tall it can grow but it can climb a tree easily.

But wow take a look at that website, a kudzu bale barn and kudzu recipes. I never knew you could eat zudzu, that's something new to me. I wonder what it tastes like? Has anyone tried it?

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[Hinotori]

The whole plant of kudzu is edible to humans.

You can buy kudzu root powder for cooking. Usually under the moniker Japanese arrowroot powder.


If it wasn't an invasive, it would be great to plant. Of course if you're in an area it's already growing, animals like it.

Didn't help any in the US that they planted it for erosion control on road margins and other places. That was how it really spread.

 

[Britesea]

I'm guessing it tastes similar to other greens? I know each type has their own flavor profile, but they all share a certain amount of "green-ness"

 

[baymule]

What about weaving a living willow fence? Stick them in the ground and start weaving!

 

[Britesea]

Willow roots very readily. In fact, you can make an excellent rooting hormone mixture using willow. Just put some cuttings in water and let them root, then save the water to help other plants root. I think it's the salicylic acid in the willow.

 

[Fixit]

That should work but I normally see that done with Osage orange trees. They plant young trees 8 to 10 feet apart . Once they are established they bend down a branch both directions and put a rock on it with a bit sticking out . It roots and sends out branches that are bent down to root. In about 4 years it is to the point that even a pig can't get through it. Plus what most people don't know is that the fruit is eatable.

 

[baymule]

Osage orange is called Bois de’ Arc here. Being Texas, we slang it all up and pronounce it Bo Dark. LOL

 

[Lazy Gardener]

I'd not use anything for a living fence unless I didn't care about what would be happening under ground! (ROOT INVASION!!!)