Hedge growth.

[Grassman]

Seems to be a very large amount of growth on hedges round here this year. Nearly double in places compared to last year. I guess it's the drought last year and wet and warm this year.
Some blackberry creepers are 3 metres out from the hedge.
Will be some big bills and worn machines this year.

 

[Goweresque]

I was wondering if it was my imagination, but now you say it, yes I think hedges here seem to have really put on a spurt this year as well.

 

[essexpete]

Here in dry SE as well.

 

[Northernlights]

Trees as well as grass/clover. Lots of rain,and warm humid nights after June up here just perfect growing conditions

.Just add in rising rising background CO2 levels and all plants produced explosive vegetative growth draping over fences and walls. Just lacking sunshine for grain fill in my neck of the woods. Positive thought is that all this extra growth will be locking up some CO2

 

[uztrac]

Massive hedgerow growth here also.Gaps that were there seem to have been fillied by very aggressive blackthorn & blackberry bushes.The local moaning in the media will soon commence as we try to control this years abundance of growth.

 

[goodevans]

Probably the same reason there has been good grass growth and record cereal crops,at least around here anyway

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

I did a bit a couple of weeks ago and was thinking it wasn't trimming up as tidy as it quite should be after the 'tidy' pass. Then what annoyed me a lot of the sides were needing a tidy up pass as well! Normally can take it off in one, no sweat. Might not be too bad once the leaves are off....

Few did a bit even earlier and the re-growth is phenomenal. Grass has done about the same, a lot has been topped back off rather than made into anything, every man and his dog is selling hay and haylage this year and there just isn't the stock about to eat it.

 

[Gong Farmer]

Verges round here tend to have a lot of ash saplings growing each year, once a year they are mown down by a flail mower in autumn. This year they might have got too big for it

 

[DrWazzock]

Yes massive growth here. Something else to take up more time and money.

 

[Barleymow]

seems less here this year especially the sides of hedges

 

[mixed breed]

Father merrily took off to make a start this morning, came home questioning why I hadn't cut his first field last year... I thought we stopped doing this bloody two years buisness?? Err dad we cut it everything last year.. Reckons theres a hell of a growth on some of them, maybe a mild winter after last autumns brushing?

Also said there's more berries about than he's seen in a long time..
Hard winter coming??

 

[Goweresque]

Father merrily took off to make a start this morning, came home questioning why I hadn't cut his first field last year... I thought we stopped doing this bloody two years buisness?? Err dad we cut it everything last year.. Reckons theres a hell of a growth on some of them, maybe a mild winter after last autumns brushing?

Also said there's more berries about than he's seen in a long time..
Hard winter coming??

We are approaching a solar minimum - when the spots on the surface of the Sun reduce in number and often stop completely for some time. The cycles last anywhere from 10-12 years, the last solar minimum was around mid 2009 to mid 2010 when hardly any sun spots were visible for almost a year. And coincidentally the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11 were two of the harshest winters we've had for a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_2009–10_in_Great_Britain_and_Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_2010–11_in_Great_Britain_and_Ireland

If I were a betting man I'd say there's good odds that one or more of the next 3 winters will be hard ones.

 

[Danllan]

Seems to be a very large amount of growth on hedges round here this year. Nearly double in places compared to last year. I guess it's the drought last year and wet and warm this year.
Some blackberry creepers are 3 metres out from the hedge.
Will be some big bills and worn machines this year.

That would mean most of the lanes around here becoming tunnels...

 

[Kidds]

That would mean most of the lanes around here becoming tunnels...

Some around here are.