2000 IN A WEEKEND! - Building new HEDGEROWS

We have been looking forward to this all through that dry hot summer. It's cool enough to get planting! 450m to get done.
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[@spinaway]

About 40 years ago i saw an advert for some conifer trees, which read 100 conifer trees, grow 3 to 4 foot per year, 4 years old £20, so i asked my boss if i could use the 16 ton wagon to go and collect them, i arrived at the nursery, and said to the young woman shall i reverse the wagon in , she looked at me with a bemused grin , and said if you want to, i reversed in down a very narrow track along the side of the greenhouses, i opened up the roller shutter door and lowered the tail lift, ready to load all these trees, imagine how stupid i felt when she appeared with a carrier bag containing 100 conifer trees, , i still get embarrassed 40 years on.

[@vayde]

Brilliant

[@JamesHardiman99]

When acknowledging help, you didn't mention Maggie ... you could never have done it without her help! 😊

[@David_Bell_growing]

Thank you for planting all those native species, especially the Blackthorn important for Butterflies.

[@islandhopperstuart]

Was fun to help on day one. Looking forward to seeing flourishing hedges in a few year's time.

[@justwannaridemabike]

0:44 Happy 21st* Birthday Jo….. *and a bit! 😂🎉

[@theresathomas1258]

Thank you for this antidote to news that is all doom & gloom! Watching & smiling from a small city in southern Ontario 👏🇨🇦

[@basiaboy]

Add an auger bit for your electric drill… many widths for planting holes as well as many lengths… no bending I’d never plant the old way again

[@robgullen]

Day 2 was a bit wet and miserable for the morning but I had great fun and it was interesting to see the project for real.

[@diyfarm]

Thanks Rob, at least it wasn’t too wet. Plants got a good soaking last night!

[@dalewarren8447]

great work Team ,look forward to seeing the hedges grow. (helped to plant 40 Trees last week in my home town of Ipswich) more to do this week.

[@justwannaridemabike]

First, I love these on a Sunday evening, Thanks Tim and Co❤👏👍

[@jeanrichardson2044]

Gorgeous day, once the frost was gone. Here in NZ early summer, wet, wet, overcast. Hard to get enthusiastic about planting. Love your plans for hedgerows, for shelter and animal corridors.

[@vaalrus]

A great spade for planting, an even better spade for cleaning digger tracks.

[@shaun30-3-mg9zs]

You and your volunteer's have done a great job on your hedge row, well done keep up the good work, catch you on the next one👍

[@Raysnature]

Fantastic job. I put in about 70m last winter so can only imagine what doing several hundred meters is like. I was the same and left them all unadulterated, like you Tim couldn't bring myself to give them the chop.

[@mrv8rick2]

My best pencil also

[@Clothis64]

Dog rose is "Eglantier", nothing to do with dog in french 😉 Happy birthday Jo !

[@54mgtf22]

Hey Tim. Love your work 👍

[@philipallen8648]

Hi, well worth planting some spares if yiu can in case any of the new trees dont make the first years.

[@tangofoxtrot4603]

Fantastic job, that hedgeroe has been given every chance to survive and thrive, i planted a bit myself and they thought me to dig push and slip the plant behind the spade, hold the plant remove the spade and stomp, also we staggered the plants, to make it more stockproof and helps when laying in years to come. look forward to seeing it develop.

[@diyfarm]

Yeah that method worked great for rose, apple and maple but the thorns had big roots that needed tucking in. 👍

[@BillsCountrysideAdventures]

You need to invest in big bulb planters, saves the back

[@stephanieellis5399]

Why is it that the strip where the hedges are planted need to be sprayed? I find so many aspects of that confusing? If the spray is to kill plants...won't it also hurt the new hedge cuttings? If it's about reducing competition for the cutting's roots, wouldn't it be better to have some sort of "dip" for the root end of the cutting to "increase" nutrients directly (kind of like a yolk for a chick)... And with so many chemicals having harmful side effects on plants, all the biomass in the ground itself, insects, small, wild mammals, farmed and pet mammals and of course the effects on humans (especially the mini ones)... I just find the spraying so puzzling. But I trust that there is a reason... So can you explain it further?

[@alexstewart7652]

I assume that the planting strips were spayed off with glyphosate?

[@BLAZERSEAMS]

Great to watch (far better than actually freezing and planting!) but poor Maggie was bereft at being kept out of the corridor of planting. Why is chicken feed (?) bad for sheep/goats??

[@diyfarm]

No idea but I know a neighbour lost a ram to a bag of chicken feed. Pig and poultry feed is not designed for ruminants and I can only imagine that as much as they like it they cannot digest it.

[@BLAZERSEAMS]

Much like humans I suppose. I tried to eat an envelope of chicken feed some time back and I found my payslip to be VERY indigestible!!!@@diyfarm

[@hstwodrainage.1410]

I have seen a few of your videos. Can you tell me the dimentions of the small squared wire mesh fence please? And the maker of it? I did not see a video of you putting this up, but did see other fencing. Thank you.

[@C4sp3r123]

From memory it is Tornado horse fencing. If you scroll back through the channel there was a video on it about 4 months ago, called something like most expensive fence on the farm.

[@hstwodrainage.1410]

I did start looking at wire fencing on the www, and looked at Tornado as it is made near me, I saw something similar, yes expensive. Thank you for getting back to me. @@C4sp3r123

[@diyfarm]

It’s the 1200mm 50mm horse net, we do have some shorter horse net with larger 75-80mm holes which was a bit less. Expensive but great stuff and can’t beat it for some situations.

[@russellwheeler2760]

so is the idea to eventually remove the fence? or are you just assuming the fence has a finite life (10yrs or whatever) and by the time it starts to break etc, the hedge will be established?

[@diyfarm]

No the fence will remain, (hopefully longer than 10 years) that will still leave a 7-8ft wide hedge yet still keep the goats and sheep off. Once really established and laid it may well be stock proof in itself but that would be some way off.

[@russellwheeler2760]

@@diyfarm ah ok. So the hedge won't be enough to stop the livestock getting through, at least not for years. I've never really checked but do most farmers fields also have fences in front of hedges?

[@barkershill]

@@russellwheeler2760yes they do Rus, it would have to be a really well maintained hedge to be an effective barrier to livestock .

[@bevoberholzer17225]

😀😃😄😁😆😊🫠🫠🙃🙂

[@timmylumsden8060]

Strange to think farmers were paid to grub up hedges not that long ago

[@diyfarm]

Now it’s the opposite. 🙄

[@richardstevenson2727]

👊🫡