cavey
5 year old buck +
Treated lumber, a 1/4 mesh screen across the bottom and Plastic lined to hold added moisture (red osier and most cuttings like damp soil mediums ) and filled with sand, (might be a better idea to mix in a bit of better soil as I think I could get better root growth - but I pretty much plant them into the bed and forget about them).That's impressive. Is your bed just all sand?. Also I have only direct planted my cuttings. If you were to harvest some now is there a good way to store them till the ground thaws?
So the bucket and bagged osier where late spring cuttings.... (you could do them now or wait a bit depending on when you want them to come out of dormancy) filled the truck up with cuttings, took them home and cut them down to the sizes I wanted, dipped ends in candle wax and bagged them into 1 gallon zip-lock bags with a damp paper towel, for storage till May'ish. Stored in a refrigerator. I tend to believe the shorter they are in storage the better they will do, but they sit dormant all winter too right?
I have and use a narrow tree planting spade to shoot them in. You can volume shoot them in this way and hope they root out, or bed them out and let them develop their root systems then the following year or two transplant. I always have something growing the sand bed, You can take cuttings from a lot of other shrubs and get them going this way. I plan to make a couple more beds and just keep fresh cutting from the farm growing in them.