Re: Willow Water

**"Rosenlund" rosenlund@transport.com>**

Hi ya Joanie,

How ya doing gal?  :-)
How does your garden grow?

I would think that anytime of year would be fine for taking willow.  Surely
other times of years would make it more favorable, but willow is willow.  I
never thought about using it as a fertilizer, hum.... I've only used it a
few years ago with taking some late Spring rose cuttings, that did great by
the way, until I keep forgetting to water them in the summer.  :-P  We were
still finishing up our house then and I would neglet the cuttings.

I think I read that you are not to BOIL the cuttings of willow, but bring
the water to boil and steep it... I doubt it would be too strong, I never
got a "recipe" so I just tossed in handfulls into 5-6 cups of water, then
poured it (after steeping it overnight) into the buckets of cuttings I had
soaking that morning.  So perhaps it was too deluted when I used it.  I did
leave one bucket for nearly two weeks and those cuttings starting to get
some roots already and they were still nice and green.

I recall that I got much of this information from Texas Rose Rustlers site,
but I can't seem to find their website?!  Anyone have that address?

                ~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep and Old Roses

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