Cutting Walking Sticks, Questions

[Bugbear]

I haven't seen Jock Scot posting or logging in for a while now. I looked over at the Scots Forum yesterday, though I'm not a member, and he doesn't seem to be posting over there, either.

Hope everything's OK with Jock.

I have a few more sour orange sticks to cut, but I'm going to hold off on cutting the mesquite. I should be able to tie a mesquite branch in a crook. They can be a little scratchy to work with, like a rose bush.

[Jock Scot]

I haven't seen Jock Scot posting or logging in for a while now. I looked over at the Scots Forum yesterday, though I'm not a member, and he doesn't seem to be posting over there, either.

Hope everything's OK with Jock.

I have a few more sour orange sticks to cut, but I'm going to hold off on cutting the mesquite. I should be able to tie a mesquite branch in a crook. They can be a little scratchy to work with, like a rose bush.

I am still about Ted, just not near a computer too often at the moment. Getting onto drying a cut stick, we have a very different climate to you and in our damp climate things just take longer to dry. I should imagine the process will be very much quicker in your dry climate and I should have thought of that when advising you the last time.

Anne, we used to grow those cabbages years ago for the cattle,but I have not seen them anywhere recently . Rightly or wrongly we used to call them Cornish Cabbages.