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Martha Stewart Living Magazine, Nov., 2001, Page 5; "Enjoying Hedge Apples" Article discusses uses of Hedgeapples. Hedgeapple.com is mentioned in it! We're so proud! ... I assume this method would be a good technique if one would want the hedge row to act as a fence. Mr. Knapp knows his business. Picture at right was taken...
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Your question is a good one. I hadn't ... I was looking for uses for the Osage oranges/hedge apples gathered in Kentucky a couple of days ago. My hostess makes flowers from them, slicing and drying the slices in the oven. Tje pieces curl and change color.Their liquid is sticky enough to become a commercial glue.
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Plants considered as uniquely curious are many and Maclura pomifera is one. Depending on where you're from, this tree has such names as hedge-apple, osage orange, bodark, bowwood and bois d'arc.
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lancaster.unl.edu/hort/Articles/2002/hedgeapple.shtml
lancaster.unl.edu/hort/Articles/2002/hedgeapple.shtml
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Don't pay good money for Hedge Apples! I live in Iowa "right in the Midwest" and we get lots of spiders this time of year. We use hedge apples to get rid of them disgusting spiders and they work wonderful. We live in the country and have lots and lots of hedge apples. ... What Are Hedge Apples Good For?
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What Are Hedge Apples Good For? ... "The idea of hedge apples sounds good, but WHERE does a person in Minnesota find these in June? Any other effective ways to get rid of large spiders? I am desperate!!!!"; I have found them at Kowalski's in Woodbury.
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Where do hedge balls come from? Hedge balls are the fruit of the Osage Orange Tree (Maclura pomifera). ... The criteria for a good hedge made with the Osage Orange Tree was, "Horse high, bull strong and hog tight." By the invention of barbed wire in the 1880's, the hedge became obsolete.
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www.osagehedgeballs.com/faq.htm
www.osagehedgeballs.com/faq.htm
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These are all good questions. The law in ... The bushel basket of odd yellow-green, pebbly-skinned fruit was accompanied by a sign saying, "Hedge Apples. Not to be eaten. 99 cents each" But there was no word about what you do with them..... or why anyone would pay ninety-nine cents for the privilege of taking one home.
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www.extension.umn.edu/yardandgarden/YGLNews/YGLN-Aug150...
www.extension.umn.edu/yardandgarden/YGLNews/YGLN-Aug1500.html
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“we all know what this is but do you know what good they are. It seems it is the worlds most abundant inedible fruit; hedgeapple” ... “Horse apples make great decorations for those spaces between the window bars. It's a good thing”...
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www.thebackpacker.com/trailtalk/thread/32974.php
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just watch out when gardening under them in the fall. Those apples will conk you on the head a good one! On the other hand, we get good at shouting "incoming!" or "timber!" whenever we hear the crashing of leaves in the hedge apple tree!
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forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/ohioval/msg10093012204...
forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/ohioval/msg1009301220458.html
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