Hi All
a friend pollarded a lime tree in his garden and he gave me first choice on the branches he cut off. Nothing very thick, 4 inch at the widest, most about 3 but I took the half a dozen best bits, all about two to three foot long.
The middle son peeled them for me in long strips and there's now about a carrier bags full of bark.
Now, from what I've read you are supposed to pin them down in a "slow flowing stream or lake for 2 to 8 weeks" for the magic to occur. Now, I don't have acces to a secure stream or lake, anything left unguarded would get disturbed by the local youffs. Is there anyway to replicate the process using a bucket, if needs be changing the water often or adding chemicals or live bactaria or walking widdenshins around it at midnight in the nuddy while flagulating yourself with a nettle cordage cat-o-nine-tails?
I've read of beating the strips to loosen the fibres but that sounds like I'd need practice ( being heavy handed ) and with a small sample like this I'm loathe to waste any of it.
Any advice folks?, and not "buy a ball of string" as one helpful son suggested when he heard what we were planning.
ATB
Tom
a friend pollarded a lime tree in his garden and he gave me first choice on the branches he cut off. Nothing very thick, 4 inch at the widest, most about 3 but I took the half a dozen best bits, all about two to three foot long.
The middle son peeled them for me in long strips and there's now about a carrier bags full of bark.
Now, from what I've read you are supposed to pin them down in a "slow flowing stream or lake for 2 to 8 weeks" for the magic to occur. Now, I don't have acces to a secure stream or lake, anything left unguarded would get disturbed by the local youffs. Is there anyway to replicate the process using a bucket, if needs be changing the water often or adding chemicals or live bactaria or walking widdenshins around it at midnight in the nuddy while flagulating yourself with a nettle cordage cat-o-nine-tails?
I've read of beating the strips to loosen the fibres but that sounds like I'd need practice ( being heavy handed ) and with a small sample like this I'm loathe to waste any of it.
Any advice folks?, and not "buy a ball of string" as one helpful son suggested when he heard what we were planning.
ATB
Tom