new member of the family
Sitting in a five-gallon bucket on my front porch is the newest member of the Cleaveland family. It's a rooted cutting from one of the cottonwoods on the Ingalls homestead in De Smet! In the spring, if you cut off a piece of new growth just below a leaf node and insert it in moist soil (dusting the end with rooting compound doesn't hurt), it will put out roots if you're lucky.

If I have to, I can leave this "tree" in a pot for several more years before planting it. It's only about eight inches tall right now, and it shouldn't put out more roots than a large pot can handle in that length of time.

So. Now all we have to do is find a place to settle and plant our own little piece of Ingalls history in our own yard. I am looking forward to it...
- posted by pioneergirl at 12:41 AM