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1m trees in one day

  • 06-12-2016 01:08PM
    #1
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,938 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.onemilliontreesinoneday.com/farmers.html

    Just got an email about this, no longer free though as I reckon too many ppl never bothered to collect free trees in the past.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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  • #2
    redbeaard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭redbeaard


    €21 per tree pack
    Tree packs available for 2017:

    Woodland Pack:

    50 mixed native trees for a trees for a small woodland (Approx 1/10th of an acre) or for several smaller plots.
    Species to include appropriate mixes of oak, hazel, alder, rowan, birch, crab apple and scots pine.

    Coppice Pack:

    50 mixed native trees for a small coppice (Approx 1/10th of an acre).
    Species to include appropriate mixes of oak, hazel, alder and birch.

    Hedge Pack:

    50 mixed hedge plants for 10m or more of hedgerow or to fill gaps in existing hedges.
    Species to include appropriate mixes of hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, crab apple and oak.

    Agroforestry Pack:

    50 trees of an appropriate species or species mix for low density planting of rows and groups of trees across arable and or pasture land.
    Species to include oak, scots pine, alder, birch, hazel, hawthorn, blackthorn and crab apple as appropriate.

    The last few years I've been planting about that much in bits and pieces around the place. Is this worth the extra paper work though?

    Anyone know what the quality of the trees is like?


  • #3
    AntrimGlens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭AntrimGlens


    I've got off them for the past two years that they did it, probably took about 2000 black/whitethorns and mixtures of coppice and woodland packs. To be honest I got a lot more trees than ordered as i knew the group that were distributing them and said to them whatevers left over i'll take.
    The thorns have done exceptionally well considering i only laid plastic, gravelled over it and then a hole with a crowbar through the plastic and heeled in the whips. The rowans, hazel and crab apples have all done very well, the wild cherry unfortunately not so well. the birch have done well also.

    They came out for a look earlier this year to see how the trees had done and they were very happy with things, so i don't know if it was less satisfactory elsewhere?


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