Planting the hedging

Well February was pretty cold and the ground very hard but we collected our order of hedging from Future Forests in west Cork Saturday morning Feb 28th.

As the ground is pretty hard and essentially Farm Land we arranged then to collect a rotovator at 1pm from Toss Bryan's in Fermoy.

The Van was packed with the hedging plants but Toss Bryan's rotovator was broken, we could not get another that weekend so we needed a plan B for breaking the ground.  Chris went off to B&Q for a handheld attachment for the Ryobi strimmer which could work but so much smaller.

By 2pm we were on site and started to break the ground for the hedging, Chris with the small handheld rotovator and Tanya with the Fork & Spade!!! It was tough going so we did not get much done by 5pm on the Saturday.  Back Sunday morning at 10.30am for planting and trying to do as much as we could.  

We got the Beech planted on Sunday morning (March 1st) and spent the afternoon digging the west facing (back) of the site for further planting, and the back corner planted with the Yew, some of the privet and Berberis plants.  We also planted some apple trees, and the Oak tree as planned.

It was so slow that we knew we would have get a rotovator for the following weekend to complete the North Facing site

 

Next post will be the north facing side of the site being planted, and the mini-nursery section where the remaining plants will be planted for re-planting

 after the house build has been completed but at least there will be some growth between now and then.