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  • From: Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple wood
  • Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:53:58 -0500


Have you considered growing Alder? Black Locust and Alder both offer
nitrogen fixing benefits. I know Locust
is considered hard and blade dulling, would alder be soft enough to work?
Charlie Paradise
zone 5/Massachusetts

"Erdman, Jim" wrote

> A while ago I asked this list and also a woodworking
> related list about varieties of apple and other
> fruitwoods that would be worth growing for the wood, and most
> of the answers that I got ignored my actual question,
> but instead lectured me on marginally related topics.
> Never did get any specific recommendations about
> varieties to try to grow for wood. We need to replant some
> trees in some fields that we have replanted to trees
> for timber, and I thought it would be good to grow
> something other than maple, oak, walnut, butternut, etc.,
> especially as my son likes to carve spoons, turn
> bowls, etc., and he finds that apple, lilac, and plum give
> nice results. When friends need a tree removed for
> any reason, we hope that they give him a call first, and
> he usually rewards them with something made from the
> tree he takes out.
> We will be planting "generic" apple seedlings,
> whatever comes up from last years fall plantings of seeds.
>
> Jim Erdman, in Menomonie, WI





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