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  1. spandit
    By the time you two have finished arguing it'll be fully grown! I've planted it now anyway so we'll see how it does. Considering my initial quote from the Woodland Trust was for 4,500 trees and I "only" planted 1,500, I think I've got space
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    For example? I'm not particularly worried about the firewood aspect, got plenty of other tree seedlings of superior species but not going to get any logs for many years. I read that goat willow doesn't propagate with rods like other willows so sprouting in the woodpile isn't a problem anyway - I'd rather have a log pile full of willow than no log pile at all
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    I will! Don't think it's the first one there anyway
  4. spandit
    What's wrong with goat willow? Any quick growing tree is good in my book
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    I'm inclined to say "willow" but if anyone else has an idea, I'd be very interested
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    People are too quick to use chemicals, in my opinion. What damage are the rabbits doing? Most of ours died over the winter but I'm sure the population will recover. Wish I was a morning person so I could get up early & shoot them
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    The wild cherries were the first to leaf and most of them are looking good still but this one has been attacked by something and is looking the worse for wear. Is it likely to die or will it just come back stronger next year?
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    It's just mulch - more to weigh the weed membrane down as it was being pushed up by creeping buttercup and swamping the willow rods. We've just planted a little plantation of about 60 sticks at close spacings to try and get some nice straight rods for construction purposes. I am planning on making a "tree bog" at some stage, which will use willow for filtration. Have had a bit of slug damage to the trees - each tube seems to be filled with them. I have seen signs of rabbits around the trees - piles of droppings on the membrane, for example, but the spirals and tubes are meant to protect against that. There has been some deer damage to some osier I planted elsewhere (at least, I presume it's deer) but hopefully I can grow so much of it, it won't be an issue if a bit gets eaten.
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    The willow sticks I planted are beginning to accelerate now, this is osier viminalis:
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    Had a closer look at a "dead" one today and as you say, the upper stem was dead but there are leaves sprouting from the base, you can just see them next to my finger. I have tried what I call "emergency mulching" - basically ripping any grass/weeds that were growing inside of around the tube and laying it down as a mat around the tree: I've marked the trees I'm worried about with little flags: I did notice, unfortunately, that one of my cherries, which were going great guns, has been eaten by something and is now struggling:
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    1st of May and had a good wander round with the dogs this evening. Plenty of little wild oaks coming up, don't know whether these are from the acorns I scattered last year: Also got some reasonable sized birch popping up too, one of the reasons I didn't plant any: Finally, the aspen is making an appearance, although most of them are weedier than this: Some of the hawthorn I planted in January and the hazel are sprouting out the top of the spirals already. Blackthorn is struggling, to be honest
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    If you can remind me and talk me through the process, I'll gladly oblige!
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    I will leave well alone. As far as I know the roots were fine and most of them have sprouted. I'll replace any genuinely dead ones with sweet chestnut, red oak, Chinese dogwood and black locust (although the latter is planned for the boundary)
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    Pretty, though. It's not on my property, though, so hopefully I can germinate some of the conkers
  15. spandit
    My ground is really damp - I was worried it would be too wet for some of the species - but they all seem to be thriving around the dead alder (plenty of live alder too). Perhaps it was a bad batch? I'll mark the tubes but wait for a few months before uprooting any
  16. spandit
    I know some of the beech are being a bit sluggish to get going but looking at the trees I planted, some of them look pretty dead, alder in particular. How long should I wait before declaring them dead? Thinking of marking the tubes with red pegs or flags so I can see where to put different species next year
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    No, I'm properly ignorant!
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    I thought it looked like horse chestnut, didn't realise there were different species. Thanks!
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    I thought it looked like horse chestnut, didn't realise there were different species. Thanks!
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    Thanks! Unfortunately it's so wet where most of them are planted, including the access to the field, that getting our new mower up there is not doable (you'd struggle with anything, frankly) - not really prepared to strim that area either! I'm hoping the membrane around the trees will help and some of them have already produced their own shade inside the tube which should stop weeds coming up
  23. spandit
    Whereabouts are you?
  24. spandit
    Sorry, did I say Jedi? I meant willow... Here's one I butchered in the winter (unbutchered one behind it), fighting back with a vengeance!
  25. spandit
    Not sure which particular bit you're replying to but the trees were all planted in February and have started growing. The blackthorn has been planted in a hedge as suggested by someone earlier. Can't remember if I mentioned my existing hedge but getting South of England hedgelaying society to come and look at it with a view to laying it later in the year/early next year.

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