A reasonably busy couple of days at the field.
The rest of a 120m line of young ash trees have gone in along the north boundary parallel to the roadside fence.
A few hazels planted together, some alder and a couple of willows, as well as some willow cuttings.
Part of the south hedge has had a severe cut and pruning - probably for the first time in 15 or 20 years...
The hawthorn had grown into trees with substantial lower trunks, so they have been coppiced.
There are more gaps than hawthorn, so quite a bit of replanting to do.
The bulk of the twiggy cut waste ended up being burned rather than shredded, the wood-ash will still end up going into a compost mix. Quite a few larger lumps for logs.
Quite a lot of stuff is starting to bud and vegetation is starting to green up and become noticeable.
The east hedge that I layered in November has noticeable buds on the hawthorn and dog-rose.
By the time it was dark, an owl could be heard quite close (probably the one in the hollow tree from last month), but a second hoot could be heard further away too.
No comments:
Post a Comment