And that right there is what this is all about. Plant some trees and we can carry on as we are with a clear conscience.
Planting Trees
- Thread starter flowerpot
- Start date
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
I had to smile wryly to myself today. The National Trust did some tree planting today on some wet ground next to to a river. This was the number of cars that turned up to do the job:
Must have been 1 hell of a planting job, especially as they were told to take their lunch with them.
All this (9 cars, 1 person in each, plus a Trust pickup and quad bike), all looked like well paid salaried staff from the NT, the EA and who knows where else, just to plant 500 trees (willows and alders)!
How many million are they intending to plant? Going to be bloody expensive and take an awfully long time at this rate.
Must have been 1 hell of a planting job, especially as they were told to take their lunch with them.
All this (9 cars, 1 person in each, plus a Trust pickup and quad bike), all looked like well paid salaried staff from the NT, the EA and who knows where else, just to plant 500 trees (willows and alders)!
How many million are they intending to plant? Going to be bloody expensive and take an awfully long time at this rate.
Nah,they have a vegan burger at the airport and that offsets their flight.....
God loves a trier....
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
This is what really cheeses me off. They’re planting rubbish trees onto fertile permanent pasture which would sequester more carbon than the trees will, and keep it locked up, whereas the trees will release it all back when they die and rot (after they’ve shed a load of leaves into the river each year, adding to the silt).How much carbon was released driving to the place to plant the trees?
renewablejohn
Member
- Location
- lancs
Wildlife trust in Bolton doing a similar thing on Winter Hill but have done a purpose made car park which probably holds 250 cars which seems to be three quarters full every day of these tree planting nutters. Its rather ironic as there replacing the trees lost due to the fires caused by there own mismanagement.
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
someone who believes we are going to be paying a wealth tax for many years to cover the cost of Covid...
GeorgeK
Member
- Location
- Leicestershire
Will they come and water them in a drought to stop them dying, and keep the weeds down so they aren't smothered? People don't realise planting trees is the easy bit, the maintenance is forgotten about
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
25 years that it stops being too f**king wet or too f**king dry to do anything with
Wow! It's probably worth £10k already .
Wow! It's probably worth £10k already .
I pointed this out to the local WT when the planted a small Coppice nearby. I got the local PC to badger the Council, who sent in there grass cutting gangs with strimmers etc, so at least most trees survived. WT really had no idea It seemed to me.
Hesston4860s
Member
- Location
- Nr Lincoln
The answer to your sons question is my f**king late father, I’ve 36ac of the barsteward things !. They earn nothing and haven’t since 2012, one schemes just finished and I want to return it to arable as per the rules of the original agreement !.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
Shropshire County Council recently advertised a new full-time position for someone to 'investigate novel ways to plant trees' - salary £33K per annum. I pointed out that for that money they could plant a lot the old fashioned way! I despair!
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
No chance. I mentioned to one of the EA ladies as she was leaving that it’s a shame their “wetland area” drys out every summer. She looked at me quite disbelievingly.
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
I have said it before and I will say it again. If government and society want lots of tree planting they need to purchase the land into trust for the nation! Farming to forest on a rental basis is a bad deal for both parties.
betternextyear
Member
- Location
- salop
How many farmers are growing barley at £ 135 a tonne. Costing about £100 a tonne to grow when you could grow willow or poplar for chipping worth £130 /tonne. Once its planted you cant stop it growing.
And in a few years when it's over supplied will cost a fortune to put the ground right again
- Location
- South Molton
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