Andersonarb@xxxx.com wrote:
In a message dated 08/12/2008 18:20:38 GMT Standard Time,
trees@xxxxxxxxxx.co.uk writes:
But seriously, isn't this a sound thing for everyone to be doing?
I'd've said so, what species are you planting Jerry? And who sells 100 1+1s?
I wouldn't have thought it would have been worth their while sticking them
in a bag!
There's a local nursery (Parks Farm Forest Nursery) that grows & sells a
good range of locally grown transplants...
Anybody got any thoughts on alternative coppice species? Other than Ash I
mean. I've been burning some Alder recently, cut from the shoals on the River
Don. Removed in the cause of getting Jon Tesh (in Doncaster) flooded more
quickly. I've been quite impressed with its burning characteristics.
Well ash does very well here (on a good rich silty soil) so that's the
bulk of what I'm putting in. Also some oak for the longer term and
birch for the short. And some sycamore, which is probably more
productive than anything (though it's an odd thing to buy - should've
grown them myself really, but they're only a few pence each...).
As for other species, Italian alder was suggested... grows well, pretty
well anywhere; no idea how it coppices, but if it's like its native
cousin it should be OK. And how about red oak? A fast grower and a good
enough firewood.
I've often pondered whether stuff like False Acacia might do OK on spoil
heaps, as well as providing coppice wood, it might rapidly improve poor soil it
being a nitrogen fixing legume and what have you.
I'd be interested to know what any others of might think/have experienced.
People (well, William Cobbett anyway) have been trying to popularise
Robinia for ages... Then I seem to recall there was a bit of a craze
for trying out southern beech (N. procera & obliqua) a few decades ago.
They never seem to have caught on, but then forestry as a whole has
hardly been thriving in recent years...
But who knows, climate change might encourage a bit more variety in
planting.
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