Hedge Cutting - with a little bit of help!

[@carlas872]

I do love watch garden maintenance. Gets me motivated to get out there and work. I'm amazed at how much you have done in just 9 years! You have such a beautiful garden and I can't wait to see how you transform your borders.

[@MurphysGarden]

@@carlas872 Funny but I think having you all watching our progress on the channel motivates us to push on too!! It’s nice having all the old footage as sometimes we forget all that we have done and think it’s not happening fast enough!

[@Soggymoggies]

It’s such a privilege to watch the skills of a local farmer at work. The hedge cutting is not as easy as it looks but Mark did a wonderful job here. The structure of the hedges will now look great over the entire winter months. Thank you for the video.

[@MurphysGarden]

@@Soggymoggies It’s a really hard job to do and he does it so well, enjoyable watching a master at work! He must be the best in his field! 🤣

[@CharleneMGrant]

Thank you for sharing that. So unique to the UK, as I live in New Hampshire, USA.

[@adamhall5024]

Love y’all content! Your hard work is rewarding!

[@MurphysGarden]

@@adamhall5024 Thank you, nice for us to have the day off!

[@JRP58]

I also enjoy a good hedge trimming. Trimming keeps the hedges healthy, thus ensuring ongoing habitat for birds and wildlife.

[@MurphysGarden]

@@JRP58 Exactly 👍🏻

[@a760541]

The first day we moved in, we had pre-ordered 120 mtrs of 30cm taxus. (A lot of digging) Anyways 20yrs later we have a great wind break & wildlife refuge on the Southside of the plot. Facing onto a field we prune back every other yr with hand secateurs. Make a day of it, take the LR n trailer into the field. Prune off the hedge straight onto the trailer. Each length is on ave a foot or more long (minimum waste n threat to the Wildstock) The garden side we do with hand shears. Electric clippers i really find make too much of a mess. The waste goes through the mower and the shredded waste is used as a mulch around the acidic loving plants or banished to the compost bins. We top our hedges again only every other season. any unsightly growth clip out with secateurs. We air to keep the heights at about 2-2.5 mtrs. The goal is to able to prune them with 2 feet on tera-firma. On our northside we put in a Photinia hedge. Against the road against a fence we put plastic privacy screening (as a protection against the north winds) We very rarely prune them and just nip them out with secateurs. We have gone for height with them and now have got a ave 3.5mtr height on them. What we've done on the fence is run a combination of ivy as a evergreen screen but for seasonal effect Virginia creeper. In early October you get a cascade of red leaves 50 mtrs long and upto 4 mtrs high. Pruning the creeper back at season's end is more work than hedging...

[@MurphysGarden]

@@a760541 Fantastic to hear of your success, work done early on really pays off and times flys by quicker than we would like!