Just leave them to dry for a year.. they will be perfect for next spring when you are looking around for canes for the garden. Then that years pruning will make canes for the following year, etc.
Well, all of this has definitely confirmed I won't attempt to use them this year, so I will stick them in a forgotten corner until next year when needed. Although knowing my rubbish memory, I'll probably find them just too late to be of any use to me....!! But at least they won't have rooted into new willows by then...
We used willow for our plant supports on our old allotment. It did root but if you’re only using it for temporary crops (as peasticks etc) it won’t have rooted deeply so can easily be pulled out when no longer needed. Sometime some of our supports were left in over winter and still pulled up easily the following spring.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
I made a support for a peony and the video I followed suggested removing the bark from the ends if putting it in the ground fresh. So far so good, but I'll pull it up for winter anyway so hopefully not long enough to get too established if it does root.
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It doesn't work that way and you can end up poisoning yourself.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham