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Old 12-14-2004 | 07:31 AM
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timbercruiser
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Default RE: Honey suckel

Doughboy I don't think the bush type honeysuckle is what he is talking about. The Japanese Honeysuckle (vine type) is not only a good food source for all bees, some birds and whitetails. It also provides shelter for birds, rabbits and other animals. I know it is classified as invasive, I don't think it is in the same class as kudzu and some others.
A good way to make a honeysuckle bed is to till up an area about 50 feet or more feet long by 6 feet wide and plant the bed. Then take some wire and make either a angled cover or a rounded cover over the bed. As the honeysuckle grows out through the wire the deer and other animals can eat it, and it will make a good shelter area. Just add a little triple 13 each year for a cheap, good deer food source. Honeysuckle can be controlled with Roundup on the edges if it starts running.
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