Conifer hedge cutting

[Hodge]

Can anyone please tell me when you should stop cutting conifer hedges for the winter?? I usually cut them till we get hard frosts but just wondered what the score is?

[White Noise]

We cut them year round without any problems .

Edited November 11, 2011 by White Noise

[richyrich]

We cut them year round without any problems .

 

i agree:thumbup1:

[Mick Stockbridge]

Late October imo.

[born2trot]

I'm still cutting them now , but admit I'm starting to get nervous as some folk on here advocate spring /summer only ( and I have no reason to doubt them) .

 

Is there an absolute deadline ?

 

Good question hodge.

[SAM66S]

I cut them all year round, never had a problem before even with the last 2 winters

[White Noise]

I'm still cutting them now , but admit I'm starting to get nervous as some folk on here advocate spring /summer only ( and I have no reason to doubt them) .

 

Is there an absolute deadline ?

 

Good question hodge.

 

I don't think that there is a deadline as such . Just don't cut them back to harshly . I also advocate Mick Stockbridges thinking of cutting them later in the year as this will reduce aphid damage in summer .

[Mick Stockbridge]

I don't think that there is a deadline as such . Just don't cut them back to harshly . I also advocate Mick Stockbridges thinking of cutting them later in the year as this will reduce aphid damage in summer .

 

No I don't think that at all mate. I said late October for this year in particular as we've had a warm Autumn and even then that's the very latest I'd do em. I always tell my customers to have em done in April or May that way they look nice for the Summer then hold onto the foliage for protection for the Winter.

[Graham]

I won't do reductions between March and August purely because of greenfinch nests. Trimming of well-clipped hedges I will.

 

IME hedges can burn/dessicate in the winter during times of dry cold.

[PeteB]

I used to stop cutting hedges when the customers stopped asking!