2020 - Tell us what you did today

First go at cutting and laying a hedge. We got better as we went along, bending the saplings, cutting them part way through and then weaving them in. Really should have cut back the wild roses and brambles first. We're both shredded!!

Is that on a new hedge or an old mature one??

we planted one 18months ago. It's grown well...not sure if I should have put roses in as they are so vigorous. But I'm wondering what to do now. I can't find great advice. Brother say lay it next year.

It is hard to describe, but it is ten year's worth of scrubby growth along the edge of a field ditch with a wood beyond - we simply cut the grass up to it and left nature to do what she liked. It is a mixture of ash, hazel, blackthorn, oak, willow (goat and ordinary), birch plus the roses and brambles. Up to this year we've just cut everything off at about shoulder height, but where a few trees have fallen through it had big gaps that the deer jumped through. We thought we'd try cutting and laying to fill the gaps and then decided to do the whole length. When the rain (hurrah!) stops I'll take some photos.