1 Hedge Apples, Spiders, and Mice
- Author: extension.illinois.edu
- Published Date: 04/11/2022
- Review: 4.83 (800 vote)
- Summary: · It turns out that chemicals in the fruit repel spiders and quite a few different insects, and a good number of folks in the country used to
- Matching search results: From out in the southwest, in the drainage area of the Red River in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas, came a deciduous tree known as the Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera), often called the Hedge Tree. It was prized for its wood by the Osage Nation of …
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2 Local company finds value in hedge apples!
- Author: thenewmix.com
- Published Date: 06/21/2022
- Review: 4.69 (313 vote)
- Summary: · You may hear tales of good fortune and certainly of the spider and cricket-repelling capabilities of hedge apples. While there are compounds
- Matching search results: You may hear tales of good fortune and certainly of the spider and cricket-repelling capabilities of hedge apples. While there are compounds within the apples, that, when concentrated, repel bugs – the whole-form hedge apple itself won’t get the job …
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3 Its That Time of Year… Hedge Apples Are Everywhere!
- Author: vantrumpreport.com
- Published Date: 02/09/2022
- Review: 4.55 (511 vote)
- Summary: With all the kids and grandkids out running around, I wanted to pass along some interesting facts about “hedge apples” and the good old hedge tree
- Matching search results: With all the kids and grandkids out running around, I wanted to pass along some interesting facts about “hedge apples” and the good old hedge tree. When I was a kid I loved to gather hedge apples and throw them at all kinds of things. Some things I …
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4 Are Hedge Apples (Osage Orange) Edible? Maybe – If You Stick To The Bottom Of This
- Author: urbanorganicyield.com
- Published Date: 11/29/2021
- Review: 4.33 (260 vote)
- Summary: What are hedge apples? … As with its name, the plant is commonly used as a hedge. Due to its high survivability rate and poor soil and weather conditions, the
- Matching search results: With all the kids and grandkids out running around, I wanted to pass along some interesting facts about “hedge apples” and the good old hedge tree. When I was a kid I loved to gather hedge apples and throw them at all kinds of things. Some things I …
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5 The odd history of the Osage orange tree
- Author: nationalgeographic.com
- Published Date: 02/08/2022
- Review: 3.99 (276 vote)
- Summary: · Hedge apples are full of a milky, latex-like sap that can stain the hands. Their seeds are fragile and eaten by animals such as squirrels
- Matching search results: Before and during the last Ice Age, all sorts of giant herbivores, most now extinct, lumbered and galloped throughout North America: mastodons, ground sloths, mammoths, camels, horses. Also glyptodonts, which ecologist Daniel Janzen compares to “a …
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6 Iowa Chemist Turns Inedible Hedge Balls Into Valuable Cash Crop
- Author: npr.org
- Published Date: 04/07/2022
- Review: 3.98 (471 vote)
- Summary: · LINDSEY MOON, BYLINE: Osage oranges, hedge apples, horse apples, monkey brains – these are synonymous for the fruit that falls from the hedge
- Matching search results: MOON: Schock lives on a 300-acre farm here in Bloomfield, Ia., just north of the Missouri border. Like many farmers, he’s got hundreds and hundreds of hedge trees on his property. They grow to be up to 60 feet tall and have thorny branches that’ll …
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7 Behold the lowly hedge apple
- Author: hutchnews.com
- Published Date: 08/30/2022
- Review: 3.64 (299 vote)
- Summary: · This time of year, anywhere there are hedge apple trees, … The most talked about and controversial use for hedge apples involves their
- Matching search results: Even though the sticky inner flesh of the hedge balls is said to irritate human skin, Iowa chemist and entrepreneur Todd Johnson’s company, Osage Healthcare buys hedge apples and extracts their oil for use in making hair and skincare products. …
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8 Facts and Myths Associated with "Hedge Apples"
- Author: hortnews.extension.iastate.edu
- Published Date: 07/20/2022
- Review: 3.46 (294 vote)
- Summary: · The use of the hedge apples for insect control is one of the most enduring pest management home remedies. Placement of hedge apples around
- Matching search results: The Osage-orange is native to a small area in eastern Texas, southeastern Oklahoma, and southwestern Arkansas. This region was also the home of the Osage Indians, hence the common name of Osage-orange. White settlers moving into the region found …
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9 How to Use Hedge Apples to Repel Spiders and Mice
- Author: thehomespunhydrangea.com
- Published Date: 07/02/2022
- Review: 3.25 (404 vote)
- Summary: Hedge apples can also be tossed into your compost bin to help enrich it. One of the more creative uses for hedge apples we will discuss below: using them to
- Matching search results: Hedge apples can also be tossed into your compost bin to help enrich it. One of the more creative uses for hedge apples we will discuss below: using them to repel pests such as spiders and mice. How to Use Hedge Apples to Repel Spiders and MiceThe …
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10 Hedge Apple | Horticulture, Landscape, and Environmental Systems
- Author: communityenvironment.unl.edu
- Published Date: 01/21/2022
- Review: 2.99 (486 vote)
- Summary: Hedge apples are great trees to use on an acreage. Because of the strength of the tree and the thorns, this tree has been used as a living fence. It is also a
- Matching search results: Hedge Apple, Maclura pomifera, is also called Osage Orange, hedge, and an assortment of other names. This small tree grows up to 30-40 feet tall and wide. It has very dense, yellow to bright orange wood and thorns that are ½ inch in length. The …
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11 Can You Eat Hedge Apples?
- Author: preparedcooks.com
- Published Date: 08/29/2022
- Review: 2.81 (73 vote)
- Summary: · Wood from the hedge tree turns brown when exposed to natural elements. You can use it to create durable and robust furniture, archery bows, and
- Matching search results: However, animals like squirrels and chipmunks can eat these fruits. Animals such as cattle are likely to die if they eat them. It can be caused by settling in the esophagus due to their large size and thick skin, which will chock the animal and …
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12 Hedge Apples – Preservation Parks of Delaware County
- Author: preservationparks.com
- Published Date: 08/19/2022
- Review: 2.77 (183 vote)
- Summary: · It was once said that the price of a good Osage orange bow was a horse and a blanket. Today the wood is made into beautiful pieces of furniture
- Matching search results: The tree itself is covered in sharp spines. Much like the honey locust, this suggests that the tree needed protection from large herbivores, such as the megafauna found during the Ice Age. This means that the hedge apples were adapted to be …
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