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Oct 2021
12:07pm, 7 Oct 2021
80,527 posts
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Hanneke
I have a fruit "hedge" too, very nice...
Ashridge trees tends to be best value for hedging, bare rooted season is now.
It was the woodland trust who offered mixed native bare rooted hedging cheaply I believe.
Also: as a money saving heads up: I have bought things like elder, hazel, crab apple, wild pear, damson as hedging saplings at £3 ish each, then let them grow into trees. If you buy a 2 year old maiden you pay £16/20, for something that is often only marginally bigger and a year older. Hedging whips establish easily and quickly, unlike older trees and if tbey don't you don't loose much money.
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Oct 2021
1:28pm, 7 Oct 2021
23,324 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
We got a load of stuff from the Woodland Trust last year, for our Scouts to plant.
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Oct 2021
1:03pm, 14 Oct 2021
14,845 posts
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Cerrertonia
I must pull up and chuck away several hundred pounds worth of hazel, elder and ash saplings each year at those prices!
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Oct 2021
4:24pm, 14 Oct 2021
80,837 posts
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Hanneke
Probably Cerertonia!
I dug up enough saplings at a client a few years ago to give to a friend to plant 5 metres of hedgerow!!?
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Oct 2021
4:26pm, 14 Oct 2021
80,838 posts
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Hanneke
5 plants per meter = 25 x avg of £2.50 per whip is over £60...
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Nov 2021
10:59am, 3 Nov 2021
3,445 posts
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jacdaw
Has anybody tried moving chard plants? I have some in the garden that I thought I might move into the poly tunnel to keep them cropping a bit longer. Good idea? Bad idea? No idea?
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Nov 2021
11:11am, 3 Nov 2021
81,718 posts
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Hanneke
They happily crop for at least a couple of years outside. They are my go to frost proof winter green!
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Nov 2021
11:11am, 3 Nov 2021
22,937 posts
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Rosehip
Last winter they cropped more or less straight through in the garden - but it’s relatively warm here - and then bolted when we had a couple of warmer sunny days in Feb. Can you rig a heath robinson mini polytunnel over them rather than move?
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Nov 2021
11:12am, 3 Nov 2021
81,719 posts
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Hanneke
They don't like being transplanted. They are beetroot family. You can actually eat the root! Bit woody, but edible...
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Nov 2021
11:30am, 3 Nov 2021
3,446 posts
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jacdaw
It gets very cold here, at 210m, and in a frost pocket. But I could put some fleece over them where they are. I expect they will just stop growing, though.
I might still move a couple, for, you know, science.
They aren't just beetroot family Hann, they are the same species; Beta vulgaris.
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