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Yeah perfect time now and the next few weeks. I'm gonna split a field in two and an thinking of doing a sort of fruit hedge. Medlar, damsons ( cultivated variety ), couple of hawthorn, mountain ash. Maybe a few apples/ pears. Not going fully up the field, leaving room at each headland for tractor. Not really sure where I'm going with this but it's in my head and can't get the idea out of my head now
Edit i suppose not really a hedge as trees will be spaced a couple of feet apart. I think hawthorn is a lovely tree on it's own.
Could add wild cherry and crab apple if looking to mix it up. Both are native AFAIK and flower pretty well too once they mature.
Dog rose might be an option to fill in around the base.0 -
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Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »FYP:pac:
Maybe I'm getting too complicated and should just put down a line of cider apples
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Some fantastic info here folks! Particularly about the Sloe gin
. I think it might be time for a hedging thread?!
I like the sole gin myself but I'm much happier to go pick sloes elsewhere rather than plant Blackthorn and have it spread out from the hedge!
Won't be long till I'll gather a few lbs of them. Stick em in the freezer and they're ready to rock then.
You don't have to stop at Sloe Gin. Sloe Whiskey and Sloe Vodka is good too.
Also, possibly the nicest of all is Damson Gin. A unique flavour. There's nothing else like damson.0 -
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Base price wrote: »Yes, between the Forest road entrance and the steel bridge there’s a hedge that runs perpendicular to the path. There used to be some growing there.
The sausage
Edit There was a wooded area there that people went to drink cans. After you cross the bridge heading towards rivervalley. It was known as the Sausage. I was there one Halloween with friends and ended up having to walk home as I was black from the smoke of the tyre thrown on the fire so was too embarrassed to get the bus. Had to climb in the bathroom window as my parents would have killed me if they saw the state of me.0 -
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As a 'non GLAS farmer' I'd be very happy to enter new environmental schemes. There are plenty of us who didn't go in or in my case got kicked out for admin reasons. We were starting a farm transfer when my dad went into GLAS at tier 1 on the basis that we had breeding Connemara ponies, plenty of confusion etc ensued during the transfer. Final point was that his membership of the Connemara Pony Breeders society and my new membership didn't overlap and that was cause enough to kick me out despite the money I had already invested in coppicing hedges, planting a grove of native Irish trees, planting native Irish apples etc. I appealed but got a very snotty rude response about having to retain a membership of a rare breed society at all times. I explained that I was a member within a month of the transfer and that there was a whole application and approval system to become a member which I thought would happen more quickly but in the end I had to pay back what was paid to my father and also foot the bill for all the trees, fencing labour etc myself
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Yes I'm very bitter, it was a lovely way to start my relationship with the department and their schemes.
Anyway, now I let the ponies in among the trees to graze the grass down.0 -
As a 'non GLAS farmer' I'd be very happy to enter new environmental schemes. There are plenty of us who didn't go in or in my case got kicked out for admin reasons. We were starting a farm transfer when my dad went into GLAS at tier 1 on the basis that we had breeding Connemara ponies, plenty of confusion etc ensued during the transfer. Final point was that his membership of the Connemara Pony Breeders society and my new membership didn't overlap and that was cause enough to kick me out despite the money I had already invested in coppicing hedges, planting a grove of native Irish trees, planting native Irish apples etc. I appealed but got a very snotty rude response about having to retain a membership of a rare breed society at all times. I explained that I was a member within a month of the transfer and that there was a whole application and approval system to become a member which I thought would happen more quickly but in the end I had to pay back what was paid to my father and also foot the bill for all the trees, fencing labour etc myself.
Yes I'm very bitter, it was a lovely way to start my relationship with the department and their schemes.
Anyway, now I let the ponies in among the trees to graze the grass down.
Sorry to hear this, find dept. inspectors have a "computer says no" attitude with little leeway for genuine examples like above.0 -
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You should appeal this and get a letter form the relevant pony society stating the date you originally applied for membership and explaining the process in becoming a member for the first time and how long it takes etc. - something you would not be aware of at the time.As a 'non GLAS farmer' I'd be very happy to enter new environmental schemes. There are plenty of us who didn't go in or in my case got kicked out for admin reasons. We were starting a farm transfer when my dad went into GLAS at tier 1 on the basis that we had breeding Connemara ponies, plenty of confusion etc ensued during the transfer. Final point was that his membership of the Connemara Pony Breeders society and my new membership didn't overlap and that was cause enough to kick me out despite the money I had already invested in coppicing hedges, planting a grove of native Irish trees, planting native Irish apples etc. I appealed but got a very snotty rude response about having to retain a membership of a rare breed society at all times. I explained that I was a member within a month of the transfer and that there was a whole application and approval system to become a member which I thought would happen more quickly but in the end I had to pay back what was paid to my father and also foot the bill for all the trees, fencing labour etc myself.
Yes I'm very bitter, it was a lovely way to start my relationship with the department and their schemes.
Anyway, now I let the ponies in among the trees to graze the grass down.
Also the fact that your father was previously a member and had horses on the farm all along should help.
Your are basically continuing what was already established and the small gap in membership was due to administration delays in the pony society.
Some of these societies are voluntary groups and only meet once or twice a year so it can take ages for new members to be registered.0
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