6 each of apple pear plum and cherry trees and then we're planting more soon to counteract the stuff we've cut down
How many trees have you planted this winter?
- Thread starter Pan mixer
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Hay Farmer
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- Location
- Herefordshire
About 300, another 20 to go in.
- Location
- Devon
Single figures only so far, few dozen more to go in over next few weeks.
Few hundred metres of new hedges to go in next winter.
Few hundred metres of new hedges to go in next winter.
poorsheepfarmer
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- Location
- North York Moors
1350 today
Net 0
renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
Blackthorn hedge I planted 6 years ago for making sloe gin wiil be ready to lay next year then probably another 3 years before it thickens up into a decent hedge. Already had 2 harvests off it but last year got nothing due to late frosts.
michael N123
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We’d plant more if the ‘professional’ planters we hired weren’t complete eejits loads of guards and trees wasted just because they put the cable ties to high so they slipped off the post in the wind
even when they come back to sort the trees like there meant to they can’t reuse the guards just out of laziness
even when they come back to sort the trees like there meant to they can’t reuse the guards just out of laziness
- Location
- Minehead,Somerset
None but 32 acs of trees planned to be planted here next couple years . Oh yea, on grade 1 and 2 arable land . Guess who my landlord is ???
Clue: mentioned earlier in thread .
Clue: mentioned earlier in thread .
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Still collecting cuttings and seeds, always months behind you blokes 
Will plant 8-10,000 over the next couple of years
Will plant 8-10,000 over the next couple of years
- Location
- Bedfordshire
About 5 acres in the last 30 years. Not sure how many trees that is.
- Location
- East Sussex
2,500 in hedges around 500 metres.
3-5 years. Make sure you cut out the growing tips at the end of the first year...
- Location
- Romney Marsh
3.........all memorial ones though ! 
- Location
- Near Colchester
My point was: NT got on the news because they said that they were going to plant a few trees.
None of us did.
None of us did.
Goggles
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- Location
- Hertfordshire
10,250.
some hedge, some trees.
some hedge, some trees.
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Question to all you guys planting trees, where are you planting them? Replacing dead trees on established woodland? In or on new or old hedges? Rough ground? Or on what was productive farmland? Just interested
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
depends on how high you are, some hedges we have planted over 1000 feet, must be 10 years ago and I recon it will want trimming for the first time this autumn! I have found that Blackthorn does not do at the top of the farm either, not robust enough.
Doing it for the kids
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as I learnt, often they skimp on post length so by the time it’s banged in there’s an inch below the cable tie Which doesn’t work so well
planted about 20,000 8 yrs ago, then chunks of a few a few 1000 every few years with hedges. Just done 1.2 km of hedge and tree belt this year. Got 100 arriving Monday for the garden hedge.
we are planting gapped up hedges, created new (where there would have been) and lots of tree belts about 10-20 m wide to link up woodlands, often on boundary hedges.
i love doing it, I love walking through them as they grow, I find it v rewarding. It seems the deer do as well!