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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 7821754" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>I’ve only got one hedge under that scheme, a whole 130m in length, and where I can only cut one third each year. What a mess it is!</p><p></p><p>I only put it in as it’s along the side of a 0.5ac strip behind some houses, and about 30m away from the gardens. The enviro scheme allowed me to leave a strip of hedge to grow up and obliterate the view from one of the houses, where the owner wrote letters of complaint to me, and my landlord, when we spread lime on the fields behind, on a very calm day.</p><p>He also rings me annually, saved as ‘Moron from Montgomery’ on my phone, to complain that a lamb (just one, in a mob of 200 ewes and 400 lambs) is bleating behind his house and they can’t sleep.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😡" title="Pouting face :rage:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" data-shortname=":rage:" /></p><p></p><p>He moved out a couple of months ago, so I can trim the hedges properly again soon.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up :thumbsup:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" data-shortname=":thumbsup:" /></p><p></p><p>Where it has been allowed to grow up it gets open and straggly, providing very little cover for hedgerow birds. When it is cut back into shape, it hammers the plants back hard, delaying regrowth. </p><p>hedges do grow very fast here though, much faster than they ever used to on a dairy farm in Gloucestershire and, I’d wager, much faster than they do in the prairies around Lichfield.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 7821754, member: 348"] I’ve only got one hedge under that scheme, a whole 130m in length, and where I can only cut one third each year. What a mess it is! I only put it in as it’s along the side of a 0.5ac strip behind some houses, and about 30m away from the gardens. The enviro scheme allowed me to leave a strip of hedge to grow up and obliterate the view from one of the houses, where the owner wrote letters of complaint to me, and my landlord, when we spread lime on the fields behind, on a very calm day. He also rings me annually, saved as ‘Moron from Montgomery’ on my phone, to complain that a lamb (just one, in a mob of 200 ewes and 400 lambs) is bleating behind his house and they can’t sleep.😡 He moved out a couple of months ago, so I can trim the hedges properly again soon.👍 Where it has been allowed to grow up it gets open and straggly, providing very little cover for hedgerow birds. When it is cut back into shape, it hammers the plants back hard, delaying regrowth. hedges do grow very fast here though, much faster than they ever used to on a dairy farm in Gloucestershire and, I’d wager, much faster than they do in the prairies around Lichfield.;) [/QUOTE]
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