I seen a homemade broom this past summer and it was kinda neat. Have you ever tried making one?

I haven't, but I would love to. Here's an interesting link with some information on growing broom corn and broom making.
http://www.story-lovers.com/listsbroommaking.html

And some historical pictures of people harvesting broom corn.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgarvin/broomcorn.html

Another with basic instruction:
http://www.covenantofrhiannon.org/broom3.htm

And more:

http://www.everlastingsflorals.com/BroomCorn.htm

A wonderful picture of a cornbroom. Do you remember that?
http://www.art-craftpa.com/moyer.html

I seen a homemade broom this past summer and it was kinda neat. Have you ever tried making one?

I have made a broom with a sassafras for the handle which I gathered out of the woods and I grew broomcorn and used that for the sweep. You can buy broomcorn seed and it grows like fieldcorn except it does not grow a cob of corn.

A friend gave me some broom-corn seeds a couple of years ago. I'm hoping they'll still be OK to germinate as I'd love to grow some and try making a broom.
It seems like such a fun thing to do!

Darrell always ruins my brooms. So, maybe I should learn this haha. Gail

If I were you Gail I'd just be grateful he knows how to use one! :clap:

I guess. But, when he does use it, he pushes down so hard on it as he sweeps. Then when I go to use it, the bristles are all laying down. I try to hide the good one so he don't ruin it. I'm very blessed. I have trouble sweeping with my back and he's always right there to offer to help. God love him.

I know what you mean. Nothing worse than a flat broom! My DH gets a little too enthusiastic when he sweeps the pine needles from our large deck around the house. Fortunately he has one broom set aside for that job, and I never use it!