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Was this photo this week - up here anyway we had a decent amount of rain in the last couple of weeks - more than normal - so the ground might be wet from that still? Some kind of soak away - can you just dig a pit and fill it with gravel - should work till the trees establish themselves?

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the. issue i think with a soak away is that the water table is so high on the property just now it's just going to be a sump but at the high end of the property there isn't water filling the planting trench or tree pits. 

 

Current thinking after a bit of a nap is plant up the top end with beech and give the client the choice of buying hornbeam vs getting some big toys in to sort the drainage properly vs giving it a go with the beech that's already been bought but knowledgeable of the high risk of morality rates being high.  If they go with hornbeam  i either plant the remaining beech elsewhere on their property or try and sell it or decide if i want any beech hedge on my property...at least with them being in containers rather than bare root i have a good time window to get a solution. 

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What about mound planting? Plant the hedge on a bank, this will keep the roots out of the water. Use the arisings from digging the trench to make a bank. Waterlogged soil = dead hedge (no oxygen for the roots to respire).

And the client gets further privacy too.

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1 hour ago, dangb93 said:

What about mound planting? Plant the hedge on a bank, this will keep the roots out of the water. Use the arisings from digging the trench to make a bank. Waterlogged soil = dead hedge (no oxygen for the roots to respire).

And the client gets further privacy too.


And a ditch and a rifle backstop. Great solution. 

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15 minutes ago, AHPP said:


And a ditch and a rifle backstop. Great solution. 

Can you enlighten a bit more on this. This isn't my usual game to be honest

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It’s not my usual game either. Just seemed like a good idea on the face of it. More security, more privacy, probably some drainage utility as well as fixing the beech problem. 

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