Ontario Fruit Explorers

["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Bert,

I have seen walking sticks made from burdock.  A scout leader brought one  
to a meeting and asked people to guess what it was made of.  Nobody  
guessed burdock.

It was light and strong when dried.

Later,
Tom



On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:47:43 -0400, bert dunn <helbert@idirect.com> wrote:

> Sorry to hear the OK Corral is retired. You sent me some great pictures  
> of
> your labours there.
> Not really surprised that St Croix & P. Star are surviving in spite of
> neglect. They're tough birds--also make decent wine (a bonus).
> All you need to do is grow a different variety of burdock. Helga & I &  
> some
> of our kids ate it's rooter of New Years Days at Japanese friends home.  
> It
> is a Japanese tradition             Cheers          Bert
> Bert Dunn  Box 352 Schomberg    LOG1T0     1-905-880-4453
>
>
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 6:59 AM
>
>
>
> > Hi Bert,
> >
> > Was over at the old loading pen yesterday and ignoring things may work.
> >
> > I needed some steel stakes to tie up some top heavy tomatoes, so I went  
> > to
> > the corral to steal steel stakes from the failed grapes.
> >
> > To my surprize, about four of the sixteen grapes are still there.  The  
> > St.
> > Croix is doing what St. Croix does, and defies dying.  Though it is not  
> > as
> > robust as my vines at home.
> >
> > I found that some of the Prairie Star vines had found homes climbing and
> > growing on the tops of burdock.  The burdock was six feet tall.
> >
> > So for all that time I papmered the corral and nothing worked for me.
> > Ignore it and the plant pressure forced a few survivors to adapt.
> >
> > My guess is that everything except the St. Croix dies back to the ground
> > each winter, and even the St. Croix is hard pressed.
> >
> > If there was only a market for burdock!
> >
> > Later,
> > Tom
> >
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