Garden 2024!
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doing some orchard survey work and future planning...i am pretty excited.....an extremely expensive scion i bought this year i cut in half and grafted it and one was damaged early on and it recovered and grew...both grafts together produced 70 inch of growth and two side branches as well.
i am excited to have this much graft to graft multiple trees on this spring..if...IF...i can keep deer and rabbits and voles and mice from chewing it to nothing by then....its a constant fight i tell ya.
i am excited to have this much graft to graft multiple trees on this spring..if...IF...i can keep deer and rabbits and voles and mice from chewing it to nothing by then....its a constant fight i tell ya.
Picked the scarlet runners from the bean wall. Didn’t think I was gonna get any this year. Weather holding off has been helpful.
Nice basket too. Interesting pattern
That might be my favorite basket. I use it all the time. Got it in Riggins Idaho.
Learning how too weave baskets like that could be a valuable skill down the road
I have a couple books but haven’t tried yet. I can easily get too many irons in the fire and that just hasn’t made the cut. This is my laundry basket (I like good baskets). I actually have a smaller one that nests inside this one too. I use it for taking the wet laundry out to the line.
That one is really nice too.
Way too easy to get too many things going at any one time
Way too easy to get too many things going at any one time
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I have made baskets and have a box of basket making materials. I haven't made any in years now, though.
I finally got some Egyptian walking onions! I ordered them a while ago and they came yesterday! Now I need to get them planted! I think I have 30 + bulbs. I'm hoping to get a forever onion patch growing.
I finally got some Egyptian walking onions! I ordered them a while ago and they came yesterday! Now I need to get them planted! I think I have 30 + bulbs. I'm hoping to get a forever onion patch growing.
That's beautiful work! I bought a couple books also, never got that project off the ground. I still have baskets we used here on the farm when I was a kid. We used them pulling corn, all kinds of farm work. I remember these being made too. Grandpa selected the white oaks to cut down. Took them to a man who along with grandpa made them. I was about 6 and bored out of my mind so I don't remember how they actually did it but I was there. I was hoping to just repair them using the books I bought...
The foxfire books tell exactly how I remember grandpa selecting the white oak trees and splitting them.
There was a show around here called the Heartland Series. One episode was about a couple old men walking the woods, selecting a nice 6-8" white oak, drug it back to their shop to split the tree and work down strips before weaving a basket. It was super interesting to me. I'd love to know what characteristics made one tree suitable over another.
@LadyLocust These are the books I bought on Appalachian White Oak basket making. Both are filled with black and white photos and diagrams.
The book on the left is “Baskets and Basket Makers of the Southern Appalachia”, about 200 pages by John Rice Irwin. 8.5"x11"
On the right is “Appalachian White Oak Basket Making, Handing Down the Basket”, about 300 pages by Rachel Law and Cynthia Taylor. 8"x10"
The second has more detail than the first. They were the best books I could find at the time and I looked at dozens. They seemed the most complete.
The book on the left is “Baskets and Basket Makers of the Southern Appalachia”, about 200 pages by John Rice Irwin. 8.5"x11"
On the right is “Appalachian White Oak Basket Making, Handing Down the Basket”, about 300 pages by Rachel Law and Cynthia Taylor. 8"x10"
The second has more detail than the first. They were the best books I could find at the time and I looked at dozens. They seemed the most complete.
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Just loaded those in my saved cart at amazon
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The photo of the basket on the book on the right side is an egg basket. I have made many of them, not using oak strips, but using caning.
I do remember tree selection. You want a young tree in old timber. It would have grown fast and straight with very few limbs. Never a tree near the edge of a clearing. They will have lots of limbs on the sun side, no good for splitting.
I still use this for cutting firewood, same principles. Any tree by a clearing will be knotted with lots of limbs, a pain in the butt to split.
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I read the whole Foxfire books & they taught you how to hunt basket materials. If I remember correctly White oak slapping are best.
I’m only finding one of the basket books I have at the moment 
I have another but not finding it, and the FF series.
Also thought some might find this one interesting since we are in the garden thread.
My books are outgrowing
have outgrown my bookshelf.
I have another but not finding it, and the FF series.
Also thought some might find this one interesting since we are in the garden thread.
My books are outgrowing
have outgrown my bookshelf.
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