Planting a new hedge, grants/ schemes??

[Guiggs]

Are there any grants/ schemes/ free money available for the planting of new native hedges?

 

[D14]

Are there any grants/ schemes/ free money available for the planting of new native hedges?

Option BN11 of countrywide stewardship pays £11.60/metre for this. We are doing some and the native hedge mix is costing £2.85/metre for 2 year old plants. Two people can plant 200m per day we are finding. Its hard work though so not the easiest of jobs, but if your paying staff anyway they might as well be earning it!

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

What would hawthorn/blackthorn with guards cost? With & without labour for planting?

(For people that aren't in, or don't want to be tied into a scheme)

 

[D14]

What would hawthorn/blackthorn with guards cost? With & without labour for planting?

(For people that aren't in, or don't want to be tied into a scheme)

Crataegus monogyne Bareroot (Hawthorn) 2 years old plants are 30p each
Prunus spinosa Bareroot (Blackthorn) 2 years old plants are 33p each
You need 6 per metre for the scheme but without it I would plant 4 in a staggered pattern. So for 100m you need 400 plants are an average of 31.5p is £126 per 100 metres plus labour. As said we are planting around 200m per day with two people planting a 6 way mixture. Not using spirals though as the scheme doesn't like them and no canes as these plants are 2 years old so big enough to stand. I think the spirals are about 20p each from memory.

 

[Agrivator]

What would hawthorn/blackthorn with guards cost? With & without labour for planting?

(For people that aren't in, or don't want to be tied into a scheme)

Unless you want the hedge to spread into the field, don't plant Blackthorn.

Hazel, Crab Apple, hardy Fuchsia, Dogrose, but definitely not Blackthorn.

 

[cotswoldcs]

Don't forget BN7 - hedgerow gapping up. We've used this in conjunction with BN6 Hedgerow Coppicing

You guys are doing a quicker job than we can. We struggle to plant 50m a day! Using canes and spirals however. We've very stony ground which slows us down.

 

[steveR]

Local water company?

Severn Trent have planting schemes. I believe other areas do too...

 

[delilah]

If you have a local community group you're happy to work with, and if there is an element of public access to/ enjoyment of the hedge, they can get free hedge packs from Woodland Trust.

 

[Pan mixer]

Option BN11 of countrywide stewardship pays £11.60/metre for this. We are doing some and the native hedge mix is costing £2.85/metre for 2 year old plants. Two people can plant 200m per day we are finding. Its hard work though so not the easiest of jobs, but if your paying staff anyway they might as well be earning it!

You have to fence it one side too I thought.

 

[Longlowdog]

Can't tell you were there is any free money but my wife and I took 400m of single fences and doubled them up and planted 5 varieties of roses, elderflower, crab apples, haw and blackthorn and Guilder rose to have bragging rights over all the urban vegan ecowarriors who actually do bugger all except type away all day.
It is loaded with fruit and berries for wildlife, smells incredible when the roses are out and provides nesting for loads of l.b.js and pheasants.
It is worth doing without grants to prove your stewardship of the land and also provides a very decent windbreak and relief from driven snow.
We used Woodbury Estate near Kirriemuir for our hedgerow whips.

 

[Bootneck]

I've managed to tap into some money from UK power, a landscape enhancement grant. Someone from the local council ( wealden) told me about the grants and helped with the application. I'm reinstating 500 m of hedgerow taken out sometime in the last 60 years, splitting some big fields into smaller ones to help with rotational grazing.

 

[Pan mixer]

I've managed to tap into some money from UK power, a landscape enhancement grant. Someone from the local council ( wealden) told me about the grants and helped with the application. I'm reinstating 500 m of hedgerow taken out sometime in the last 60 years, splitting some big fields into smaller ones to help with rotational grazing.

I am splitting big fields too, Granddad would be having fits. This time though there is a certain amount of order in where the new hedges are at - avoiding triangles and things...

 

[steveR]

I am splitting big fields too, Granddad would be having fits. This time though there is a certain amount of order in where the new hedges are at - avoiding triangles and things...

Same here, putting new hedges on reshaped arable land has been a good service. Still allow long fields for the contractors big kit, but the fields have got a bit narrower...

Would have been wonderful for the partridge shooting we had 30 years ago, but we cannot get them to stop and/or breed nowadays, inspite of some great habitat. Urban man's cats and the bloody Badgers being the main culprits.... In fact almost no ground nesting birds.

 

[D14]

You have to fence it one side too I thought.

Only if its used for grazing land and then its only for protection nothing else.

 

[milkloss]

I've managed to tap into some money from UK power, a landscape enhancement grant. Someone from the local council ( wealden) told me about the grants and helped with the application. I'm reinstating 500 m of hedgerow taken out sometime in the last 60 years, splitting some big fields into smaller ones to help with rotational grazing.

mmm. Me too and we’ve struggled to get the jobs done. Grant ends March next year and in one section we’ve fenced one side of a very gappy hedge to preserve what’s left by stopping the cattle stomping through it. We are supposed to be gapping up and fencing the other side but unsure if we’ll get the job done in time because of weather/other commitments on farm. I’ve now put a stop on the work as they won’t guarantee to pay if we go over the deadline. I’d rather get stuffed for fence at £6 rather than two fences and gapped up hedge.

Get everything in writing as when the staff change so do the conditions. Our man thought protecting the remaining hedge with one fence would be paid for and the bonus of gapping up and second fence would be paid for when and if done.
not so according to the new staff,