I have a hedge (supposedly!!!) around my front garden. However the previous owners of the house used the bottom of the garden as a dumping ground & managed to build up a substantial bank of earth, ashes and cinders etc. As a result a stretch of the hedge has given up and died.
I am having the bank of cr@p removed shortly (it involves a man with mini-digger 'cos there's so much) but it will leave a large gap in the hedge. I further want to part remove the hedge due to it being a mixture of privet (lovely) and thorn (not bl**dy lovely).
As a temp measure I plan on erecting chicken wire to plug the holes but want a quick, easy & cheap way of filling in the gaps in the hedge. I had a look at potted privet at my local garden centres & nurseries & the cost nearly made me go toes up. Whatever I plant will have to grow around the chicken wire as I plan to leave it in situ to make it more difficult for cats etc to get into my garden.
The other things is - once this space is cleared it will be ideal for growing veg, therefore saving me all the aggro of loading/unloading all equipment from the car & the trek to and from the allotment.
All advice and/or suggestions gratefully received
CC
