Cleaning up after pruning....

johng

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is always a pain in the arse! I suspect few folks do as much pruning as I do but this still may be helpful to some. In the summer I end up with huge piles of clippings and weeds to rake, sweep and pickup daily. Much of my work this summer has been aimed at making the nursery more efficient...read...less time sweeping, blowing, and weeding = more time on trees.

here is a solution I am trying...
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seems to work well...
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Simply cut a hole in the bottom of a large nursery container(45gal) and slid it over the telephone pole where I do most of my pruning. I should have left the cutout attached...then when lifting off to empty I could have used it to cover the hole.

I would be interested in seeing or reading about other folk's solutions to keeping the nursery in shape.
 
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Tiki

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I like it. In the words of some crazy cook from a kitchen in hell, "Simple, rustic, yeah!"...and the beauties (pre bonsai) in the background. I'd be a kid in a candy store there.

@johng Is your nursery open to the public? I may have to make a pilgrimage that way if so.
 

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I'm not as clever as you, John! I also don't have near as many trees to work as you do, so I bring mine down to my work space under the deck. There I have my hydrolic table, and a cement mixing tray that will partly slip under the table. When I'm decandling or pulling needles, I try to direct the clippings towards the tray. I guess it gets 75% of them. (Seems the rest get in my pockets, hair, underwear, shoes...)

Not to mention the cat hair! The cat always seems to want to climb on my back and lay on the back of my neck when I'm working bonsai! Lol!!

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I simply use the newspapers on the ground. But not old, new one, the newer the worse news...
 

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! The cat always seems to want to climb on my back and lay on the back of my neck when I'm working bonsai! Lol!!
It's got to be better than having a monkey on your back.
 

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I hope you allowed the wound to dry a couple of days before putting in the pot medium. Otherwise, you will never get your telephone pole to throw out roots!:p
 

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Sometimes the best ideas are the simple ones. You see it and think, "Doh"!
 

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It just
It's a lot of a stick in a pot if we're being brutally honest.
It just needs Collin's help with a couple branches grafed on. It could be a formal upright. A coupla roots from the trunk and a nebari thread grafted on right quick, get a cool pot and boom. Like the ID thread I just read about (another) dead juniper (shocking) and a piece of deadwood and stuck on branches with painted foliage. Thats the goal for this pole, may as well make some carvings too. Maybe a totum pole with leaves?
Totum pole with leaves?! Now Im gonna carve a strait trunked tree into one.
 
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