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Erik Ks farmer 02-13-2013 11:05:04 199.241.240.16 Report to Moderator	Here is my humble opinion.....DON'T DO IT! I have spent half of my life battling hedge, honey locus, and cedars. Once you get them established they are next to impossible to get rid of. If you want a fence, build a fence. These trees will produce a sort of natural barrier but it takes 15-20 years and intense maintenance to get the sort of result you desire. The old timers called it "chopping hedge", never seen it done, but the somehow chopped the trees in a manner to cause them to grow straight up and form a dense hedge from tree to tree. This has been abandoned around here and the result is a tangled, stickery mess. [Reply]   [No Email]
Brendon-KS 02-13-2013 16:15:08 63.245.190.37 Report to Moderator	Re: Osage orange in reply to Erik Ks farmer, 02-13-2013 11:05:04   I"d agree that you need to think long and hard about planting osage orange (everybody calls it "hedge" around here). A lot of hedgerows are getting dozed out because they kind of take over and consume a lot of farm ground around the field. Also, they suck moisture from a surprisingly large area; in drier years the eight or ten rows against the hedge are basically non-existent. That said, it is great to have a lot of hedge around for firewood. I have never seen any kind of wood that burns hotter or longer. [Reply]  [No Email]