How many trees have you planted this winter?

[Rossymons]

25000 going in over the next 12 months.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

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

I have double fenced ditches, to stop the cattle pulling the ditch banks in, then after they have been fenced, thought may as well plant a hedge (with standard trees), partly as I like the look, for wildlife habitat and connect ability and as a windbreak for the stock too.

 

[Pan mixer]

Mine are in hedge lines and odd corners.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Serious spacing there!

 

[Pan mixer]

Serious spacing there!

They will be plenty thick enough in a few year I hope.

 

[Goggles]

Finished planting this yesterday. It’s to join two established woodland blocks.

 

[Hilly]

View attachment 943903Finished planting this yesterday. It’s to join two established woodland blocks.

That’s good land to be planting with trees , rather regimental as well , why plant good field like that ? Or is it not as big a strip as it looks , ?

 

[Barleymow]

None but have potted 200 to grow on and put out next year , smaller ones struggled last year

 

[Netherfield]

3 Laurel in a hedge, and can find maybe a hundred self planted Sycamore every year, but they get removed.

 

[ORRA LOON]

I was part of a team of lads who planted 17 million trees this summer in the nursery, we are almost finished harvesting the 5 million planted in 2019, they are been graded and dispatched out to plantations etc.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

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

Agroforestry, we'll maybe double our drymatter production per hectare inside a decade.
Some in rows, but mostly in corners of paddocks where it's easier to keep cattle off them while they establish.
500 paddocks = lots of corners

 

[GOODYSMATE]

we planted 7 two years ago ,one for each grandchild , and we planted another 7 last Sunday

 

[muleman]

None... this tree planting all seems to be part of the current fashion for 're-wilding'.
Lets hope its just a passing fad and the next fashion is for eating, rearing beef and lamb is what im good at and enjoy so will stick to that for now.

 

[Goggles]

That’s good land to be planting with trees , rather regimental as well , why plant good field like that ? Or is it not as big a strip as it looks , ?

It’s almost pure gravel, burns up in March.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

It’s almost pure gravel, burns up in March.

cant you farm underneath it first!?

bet a nice Lake there would look lovely!

 

[Agrivator]

Agroforestry, we'll maybe double our drymatter production per hectare inside a decade.
Some in rows, but mostly in corners of paddocks where it's easier to keep cattle off them while they establish.
500 paddocks = lots of corners

500 paddocks??? That's lots of posts and wire!! Both for the paddocks and to form guards round the trees.

 

[Goggles]

cant you farm underneath it first!?

bet a nice Lake there would look lovely!

Unfortunately it’s not mine, so not my decision. I’ve got a sneaky feeling some of it might be under roofs one day. Well looking at its location, I’d go for it.

 

[curlietailz]

I just bought another apple tree for the garden. Will be planted this week. Does that count ? Scrumptious is the variety. Very red sweet eating apples very pretty

 

[Kiwi Pete]

500 paddocks??? That's lots of posts and wire!! Both for the paddocks and to form guards round the trees.

It is a bit. About 1000 of these, and half a tonne of 1.6mm HT.

 

[neilo]

None at all. What do we want more for? Like a lot in this area, we’re covered in hedges, trees and mixed woodland, in and around small fields.

I’m glad however, to see you prairie farmers trying to catch up with us.