Pretty sure they don't.

You can see in the video that the hawthorn was planted between two fences, protection is fairly essential to prevent thin spots caused by wild animals grazing in the spring for the first 3 years or so. I saw that black locust has thorns, and is a very vigorous tree these are all great characteristics for a hedge species, however how flexible they are in winter when hedge laying should occur matters as well. I would go out in the woods and find vigorous hardwood species and test how well they lay down as a hedge as thorns aren't everything if you can get the hedge dense enough. Thorns are just preferred as they can keep rabbits and hares out as well.

Prevent livestock trampling it before it is large enough to contain them.

How does 2 lines of barbed wire help wildlife, unless it’s removed once the hedge grows?

​@@cynthiamgentles6781 Most of what lives in the hedge row won't be impeded by the barbed wire at all. But yes, those barbed wire fences would be taken down once the hedge is established and has grown together enough to be stock-proof.

​@@cynthiamgentles6781 not going to stop birds is it

​@@cynthiamgentles6781I'm sure it helps small critters birds and insects, idk how much dear eat honey suckles.

I guess part of the base must still be alive for sap to travel to higher up . Make sure that’s not the bit you cut through obvs .

I was thinking more Ken Barlow .

@@barkershill 🤣

Yes, I thought biochar was made by heating at high temperatures (compared with charcoal) in the absence of, or very limited, oxygen. That's (so I've read) is supposedly what makes it more porous, containing more minerals, more environmentally friendly and much longer lasting than charcoal. I've seen quite a few "biochars" that look like charcoal to me.

Doesn’t sound nearly so posh though does it ?

@@GlynisDance You just described charcoal. Which is created at high temperatures and in absence of oxygen (pyrolysis). There is no difference between charcoal and biochar at all, at least not in its creation - the only difference is its eventual use, the material is one and the same. Using a silly new word for the same stuff is commonly used as a cheap marketing trick.

Hawthorn, he said in the beginning. Mostly, anyway.

No . My guess is that it just got into the hedge by means of wind blown seeds . Having said that though I have seen quite big sycamores successfully pleached and laid , so if that’s all you got then that’s what you have to make do with .

Beautifully done, my friends think I'm weird because I'm very interested in hedgerows and their history. Thank you for sharing.

My father grew up on a farm in Devon between the wars and would talk about the winter job of "hedging and ditching". The soil in the ditch would be cut and lifted with a lazy jack (long handled shovel) and placed (slapped!) onto the side or shoulder of the bank. His lazy jack, made by the local blacksmith, now hangs in my shed ready to dig my runner bean trench. Along with a couple of his billhooks and a staff hook.

@@lesleyscott938. Sounds like my friends!😂

@@paddyoak1 😬

Prática totalmente errada! 😢

​​@@mirleydamazio628just curious what you prefer? Edit: I just read your other comment and generally agree.