Plant a tree to save the world

[Steevo]

More Packham on Channel 5.

Programme about trees and a fundraising drive by the Woodland Trust to get £150k to plant 100k trees.

Within 5 mins of starting the programme they’d already hit their target it seems!

Plenty of tree propaganda too!!

 

[nelson]

whats the point when brazil is cutting 1000,s down a day

 

[farmerm]

whats the point when brazil is cutting 1000,s down a day

an area the size of a football field a second isn't it...?

 

[Lincs Lass]

Even though I was 11 yrs old I remember the government advert from way back when ,,Plant a tree in 73

 

[betweenthelines]

Where are all these trees going to come from? Labour say they will plant a billion! And what happens when they reach maturity and stop capturing carbon? Cut them down and burn them so you can plant more? And everyone (apart from XR and their supporters) know that if you take 1000 acres of farmland out of production, 2 or 3 times that area will be de forested elsewhere to produce the food that will still be needed.

 

[primmiemoo]

More hedges is the way to plant trees. Manage them for the wood - coppice, pollard, and steep them as linear woodlands to keep them in work for wildlife, and in fresh, carbon capturing mode - and don't use bushwhackers on them to make them look like municipal box hedging.

 

[bobk]

More Packham on Channel 5.

Programme about trees and a fundraising drive by the Woodland Trust to get £150k to plant 100k trees.

Within 5 mins of starting the programme they’d already hit their target it seems!

Plenty of tree propaganda too!!

Cut one down and keep warm .

 

[primmiemoo]

Even though I was 11 yrs old I remember the government advert from way back when ,,Plant a tree in 73

Wasn't the rhyme, Plant one more in '74?
It went on then about them becoming dead sticks in '76, iirc, but I was a bit younger, so didn't learn it that well.

 

[Bury the Trash]

More hedges is the way to plant trees. Manage them for the wood - coppice, pollard, and steep them as linear woodlands to keep them in work for wildlife, and in fresh, carbon capturing mode - and don't usebushwhackers on them to make them look like municipal box hedging.

Seems to be a competition to see who can smack them off the tightest, which apart from road viability issues is inappropriate as then the shrubs will eventually die and it will just be a grass bank.
Then they moan about jo public s opinionof them and their land management 'skills'

 

[Bury the Trash]

Cut one down and keep warm .

That's what we do.
Then plant replacements , works out more convenient and better heat than anthracite.

And I dont have to buy it in in plastic bags . Or get it delivered on a lorry.

Selfsuffieciency is pretty satisfying really.

 

[primmiemoo]

Seems to be a competition to see who can smack them off the tightest, which apart from road viability issues is inappropriate as then the shrubs will eventually die and it will just be a grass bank.
Then they moan about jo public s opinionof them and their land management 'skills'

I drove westward across the border, and there's some pseudo-farmer who has bought hundreds of acres in the last few years who has absolutely scalped miles of what were lovely hedges.
Why nobody has had him/her up for it under the Wildlife and Countryside Act is baffling.

 

[GOODYSMATE]

Well I planted 7 trees of different types last winter so hopefully it will help save the world, I say I planted them I bought them then got the 7 grandchildren to pick one each and then got them to dig the small holes along the top of a main ditch we had just cleaned out , we planted them in a row 12meters apart oldest grandchild first then 2nd and so on ,that way they should be able to remember which one is there's

 

[Steevo]

Daily Mail now advertising their “Be a tree angel” campaign on tv!

Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon!

 

[Bury the Trash]

Just goes around in fads , remember 'plant a tree in 93?' And then 'plant one more in 94'.... then itwas all forgotten about

......And what ever happened about SoS ?

 

[Lincs Lass]

Just goes around in fads , remember 'plant a tree in 93?' And then 'plant one more in 94'.... then itwas all forgotten about

......And what ever happened about SoS ?

It was 73

 

[Bald Rick]

As a matter of interest, Welsh Government plants two treesfor every child born or adopted within its jurisdiction and you (the child ) get a certificate to prove it.

Called “Plant!”

Seems eminently sensible to me

 

[betweenthelines]

But the public have made their decision. Latest figures confirm that SUV are outsell Electric by 37:1! And they aint all driven by sheep farmers!

 

[Still Farming]

Ironic really when millions (Christmas trees)are cut down to put in their houses for 2 weeks or more then thrown out??
Just leave them growing?????

 

[Bury the Trash]

I drove westward across the border, and there's some pseudo-farmer who has bought hundreds of acres in the last few years who has absolutely scalped miles of what were lovely hedges.
Why nobody has had him/her up for it under the Wildlife and Countryside Act is baffling.

All around I see hedges 'smacked' to within an inch of their life , sometimes literally, thers no need too , no reason to at all, no amenity value no livestock shelter value complete mismanagement.
Quite a few on dry ground particularly in dry years dont need touching, a complete waste of deisal when done annually religiously,
No thought put in to it at the time just
Ignorance or arrogance or both possibly.

in saying thatI've trimmed 100's of miles of hedges ovef the years as well so it's not without observation.

 

[Bury the Trash]

It was 73

Dont remember that I was only a toddler in 73

Deffinatly I remember it being 1993, your county council (or at least deffinatly ours) DCC were giving out 25 native trees, free, to each person or organisation, all you had to do to claim them was apply andto say you had control or permission over a suitable place for planting

So I did and planted them around the farm.