Hooray!
Ordered bare root hedging plants yesterday, something like 200 should be delivered to our door during the first week in February. 8) This is, in fact, in collaboration with a couple of friends who wanted some, to minimise delivery charges - only about 60 of them are ours ;D
Blackthorn to make a more perennial front boundary than the thicket of nettles which served last year; a small stand of hazel to fill in one rather useless front corner, common pear to make a low-ish dividing boundary with nextdoor (the fence has pretty much given up), and a couple of crab apples just because! Note that everything bears edible fruit ;D
The downside of this is that we (and our friends) are going to have to rally the troups for a bit of a planting party during the second weekend in Feb. Time to start praying for good weather NOW! ::)
PB
looks like your going to have some fun!
You can always heal them in if the weather is crappy, but dont forget to soak for a good hour before planting. That way you can plant the row then water :-)
And you dont have to do all the work in one day you could dig the trench now and add some manure at the bottom then its a matter of a layer of compost and bone meal and pop the plant in and top up with top soil.
Suggest you collect newspaper as well and plant through the paper on the top as this will give the plant a chance before the weeds start and a added mulsh of composted bark will help protect them for the first 18 months till they get fully established and will make it looks nice.
My boss and I planted 300 hedging plants on Thursday. Made a nice boundary line once done, but I was cream crackered by the time we had finished. Am now thinking about getting rid of the tatty bit of grass between the neighbours and us and doing a similar thing.
If they are slips, soak them and just make a slit with a spade and slide them in, do not put anything under them. Make sure the area is clean of weeds and nettles so they do not have to compete. When they show their first leaves top feed them and mulch to keep them moist. The feed will be to much for them at first and the slit helps them to keep firm in the ground without rocking.
On the off chance you are incredibly rich and have got potted plants the compost they are in will look after them.