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Planting Poplar trees

  • 06-04-2016 02:27PM
    #1
    Altreab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 667 ✭✭✭


    Hello
    I want to plant some poplar trees to act as a shelter belt and then as a source of fire timber in about 5 years time. Where can i buy them?
    Altreab


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  • #2
    Oldtree
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    Your local garden center would probably have some bare root left, but it is very late in the season to be planting them as poplars around here have already bud burst. may be best to leave it until next year.

    Planting is best done on a fine day between the start of November and the end of Feb, when the ground is moist but not frozen. It is best to buy your plants as soon as the become available in the season and to store them in a healing in bed until they are to be planted at your leisure, that way you get the pick of the crop and not the leftovers.


  • #3
    monkeynuz
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    Just be sure not to buy black poplar as it is fire proof (used to be used as chocks for steam engines)


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