Lime needed
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I only have access to public lime trees on the high street.
I often get odd bits of fibre from fallen branches that have weathered while dead for a few months. Then the fibre easily separates but is of variable quality. Earlier this year I obtained a number of live sticks. No sign of the fibre at all - just solid bark. When I soaked it for a couple of months the fibre began to be released.
How do you plan to get the fibre out of the bark? I suspect there are much quicker ways than I know about.
I often get odd bits of fibre from fallen branches that have weathered while dead for a few months. Then the fibre easily separates but is of variable quality. Earlier this year I obtained a number of live sticks. No sign of the fibre at all - just solid bark. When I soaked it for a couple of months the fibre began to be released.
How do you plan to get the fibre out of the bark? I suspect there are much quicker ways than I know about.
Hi, Stickie: I have a question regarding the "lime" bark. Is this the same lime tree typically found in tropical climates and which bears a green fruit of the same name? I didn't think such lime trees would grow in the UK climate. Thanks.....Bruce
Different trees,
Our 'Lime' is Tilia cordata, vulgaris or platyphyllus, whereas the wee green fruity one is a Citrus Aurantifolia. Our lime is sometimes called Linden too.
Cheers,
Toddy
Our 'Lime' is Tilia cordata, vulgaris or platyphyllus, whereas the wee green fruity one is a Citrus Aurantifolia. Our lime is sometimes called Linden too.
Cheers,
Toddy
Stickie said:
*Supposedly* the retting process can be speeded up a bit by soaking the bark in something mildly alkali...bicarbonate of soda or ammonia added to the water ought to work, but caustic soda (
) diluted *way down* ought to do it too. Heaven knows how you'd judge the mixture, though (dunno shrug).You could maybe have a go and let us all know how you got on
Cheers,
Toddy
I noticed that my local council were cutting trees down round by me, many of them lime, as they had become too big and were damaging the pavements. I wrote to them asking if I could be informed about any lime trees soon to come down so I could strip bark of them. I suppose it was a reasonable if unusual request, but they never replied.
Pappa
Pappa
Pappa said:I noticed that my local council were cutting trees down round by me, many of them lime, as they had become too big and were damaging the pavements. I wrote to them asking if I could be informed about any lime trees soon to come down so I could strip bark of them. I suppose it was a reasonable if unusual request, but they never replied.
Pappa
They can only dispose of waste to liscenced waste handlers, personally I don't see it as waste unless you don't use it but I think the law says otherwise!
Keefy
