Does anyone have any ideas for Hedge Apples? I picked a bunch from some trees in the country. I've heard they will repel spiders. Any craft ideas? Are they poisonous? Excited to find out. Thanks! Sharon
I just heard about them stopping cancer too. A friend personally knows 3 people who had 3 different types of cancer - all cured. One was skin cancer so they rubbed the hedge apple on their skin. And yes, they make excellent bows. My father has carved many, many bows from the wood. He calls them bowdark trees.
I just heard about them stopping cancer too. A friend personally knows 3 people who had 3 different types of cancer - all cured. One was skin cancer so they rubbed the hedge apple on their skin.
This will come as a major surprise to the medical community, but I have personal knowledge that the hedgeapple is an alternative cancer treatment. I personally know 3 people who are now cancer free after using 1 teaspoon per day for only 1 month. It isn't poisonous. In my opinion, it's a miracle from GOD.
Well, they've always helped keep the spider population in my house almost non-existent. When we moved in, over three years ago, I had constantly battled daddy-long legs in the basement. After three years of placing hedge apples around the basement every fall, I rarely see a spider. They work for me!
They are really not good for much of anything. They are inedible for humans. Not poisonous, but so fiberous that they can glog the throat and cause choking. The "juice" is irritating to the skin of some people and can cause burning and itching.
I tried slicing some and drying them in the oven for using in natural dried flower arrrangments. I have to agree it is not worth the trouble.
On the other hand, I like the bright green color and interesting texture. To maybe put in a bright orange bowl for a temporary, unusual centerpeice.
I've learned at the University of Washington Burke Museum site and elsewhere, that neither osage orange nor horsechestnuts can 'repel' spiders, which have no sense of smell anyway. The spiders in houses were nearly all born there.
I love the color & texture of hedge apples & want a few to put in a bowl or basket for decoration. I didn't know deer fed on them - that's a new one, but I knew they rot.
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Archived on 10/13/2008
Does anyone know what Hedge Apples are good for? I thought they were a spider deterrent?
Thanks, Mary from LeRoy, IL
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RE: What are hedge apples good for?
Mostly they are good to feed squirrels and other wild animals. Deer will eat them if they are starving.
There are some that swear by them as bug deterrents, but it takes a lot of them. They get in the way, and as they are an organic material, they will rot. Kids like to throw them at each other.
I saw a craft once using sliced hedge apples that were dried then painted, but it was hard to cut them and they weren't pretty enough to go to the trouble. (09/28/2006)
