Green Rosie
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We laid our hedgeWe started with this on Friday morning:
and by Sat afternoon we had this:
and 12 people who helped us have now learnt the basics of hedgelaying
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Treacodactyl
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Looks great!  Is there much hedge laying done where you live?
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Andy B
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Very nice, leaving it a bit late though, wasn't the sap rising?
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Barefoot Andrew
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Looks grand!
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Northern_Lad
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Just a little bit neater. Nice work.
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cab
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Gosh, thats a lovely bit of hedging! Well done! Was it getting sappy?
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kevin.vinke
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Looks really good wish I had a hedge now lol
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mochyn
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Tidy!
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vegplot
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Excellent. Impressed.
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Rob R
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Very nice, want a job?
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Green Rosie
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| Rob R wrote: | | Very nice, want a job? |
OH never turns down the offer of work .......
Thanks for all the positive replies - a few of the branches were just breaking bud but I think we were just in time.
Over the next few days we also have 1000 hedge plants to get in - anyone fancy a hedge planting break in Normandy?
As for hedgelaying round here - it's new to the French - they tend to butcher their hedges round here but they all seem impressed. Next year, when we lay the rest of it we hope to get french people here helping as well. Time to find out what hedgelaying/binder/pleach etc are in french
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Rob R
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| Green Rosie wrote: | OH never turns down the offer of work .......
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It wasn't an offer, it was a challenge  We have about a mile of overgrown blackthorn & have given up on laying that stuff, slash & burn is by far the better policy.  The hawthorn laying is a bit more sucessful, but the stems are a bit further apart in places so it'll need a few years regrowth before it can be re-laid to make a job as good as yours 
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pookie
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looks great!
My OH has just done his 1st laying of hedge too! He came home shredded! 
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gil
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Very impressive.
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mochyn
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| pookie wrote: | looks great!
My OH has just done his 1st laying of hedge too! He came home shredded! |
Was that the one down the lane from you? We need pics...
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marigold
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It looks lovely . Will you do us another pic when it's all leafed up?
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ksia
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Wow, that looks great Rosie.
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Green Rosie
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| marigold wrote: | | It looks lovely . Will you do us another pic when it's all leafed up? |
As requested:
All the hedges we laid and saplings we planted back in March have done really well - and we are off to an Anglo-French event on Sunday to show people about hedgelaying and why it is so good for hedges. Could be a good test for our french 
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marigold
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Looks lovely - you must be really pleased .
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ariana
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It does look good. That's a fair crop of maize on the other side. Is it yours?
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Green Rosie
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Not my maize - the farmers round here grow it to make silage for their cattle. It makes my small sweetcorn plants seem very pathetic. The dogs love it too - it makes a great place to run and hide for hours on end  . And I shall be there after harvest time gathering up the dropped cobs to feed to my chooks.
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Mrs Baggins
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Absolutely lovely! Someone has had a go at doing it on our property at some point and the results are pathetic.  Would love to do it myself sometime and if I did - I would want it to look like yours! Good on ya!
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Green Rosie
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Well we are running another hedgelaying course in late winter if you fancy a trip over to France (Dover-Boulogne Speed ferries and 4 hours of very empty french roads and you're here or various English ports into Le Havre or Caen, 1.5 or 1hr to us )
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Mrs Baggins
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Pm me the details! I'll definitely think about it. Is it expensive??
Look fwrd to hearing from you!
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