Well the saying is that you can’t make an omelet with out cracking an egg and that’s how we felt yesterday with the hedge planting. The digger is a wonderful tool for this task and cuts out a lot of back breaking labour but not everyone has the access to the area they want to plant. It also makes quite a bit of mess but as we are changing the whole area this was not a problem.
our trusty digger
So with compost and bins moved and small beech hedge taken out and saved the trench for the new laurel plants started. The plants were positioned and the soil back filled by hand and adding well rotted organic matter to the planting soil although the soil texture is really lovely. We firmed in all the plants and hey presto our hedge was planted and we were on our knees! As it was so late and the night was going to be very frosty we deceided to give the plants a good water in the morning.
Planting hedge
