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Any smallholders out there?
"D Russell" wrote in
: It still takes a long time. I lay my own garden hedges, but you'd need a lot of time and/or help available to maintain all the hedges on a small farm that way: most people won't have that, and will at most lay the odd one which has been particularly neglected and needs thickening up, relying on a mechnical cutter to do the rest. Surely there's also an economy of scale, type thingy, I mean if you lay a hedge well it won't need doing again for 10 years, but if you trim it you have to trim it every year. Ten *years*? You must have very undernourished hedges! My mixed/hazel hedges would be lines of well-established trees (and far too big to lay) if untrimmed for that long. I agree that you don't need to lay a hedge every year, but you do still need to trim it if you are going to keep it as a hedge, not a small area of woodland! |
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Any smallholders out there?
"D Russell" wrote in
: It still takes a long time. I lay my own garden hedges, but you'd need a lot of time and/or help available to maintain all the hedges on a small farm that way: most people won't have that, and will at most lay the odd one which has been particularly neglected and needs thickening up, relying on a mechnical cutter to do the rest. Surely there's also an economy of scale, type thingy, I mean if you lay a hedge well it won't need doing again for 10 years, but if you trim it you have to trim it every year. Ten *years*? You must have very undernourished hedges! My mixed/hazel hedges would be lines of well-established trees (and far too big to lay) if untrimmed for that long. I agree that you don't need to lay a hedge every year, but you do still need to trim it if you are going to keep it as a hedge, not a small area of woodland! |
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