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| From Freecycle/Trash Nothing I was given about 200 2 litre mineral water containers which will do well for the willow. At Strawberry fair I collected about 300 used plastic pint cups, when stacked in 20's a power drill was efficient in providing drainage. | From Freecycle/Trash Nothing I was given about 200 2 litre mineral water containers which will do well for the willow. At Strawberry fair I collected about 300 used plastic pint cups, when stacked in 20's a power drill was efficient in providing drainage. | ||
| - | I've got three buckets and a dusbin crammed full of willow cuttings, it seems that the larger ones in the buckets will root fine, the smaller ones haven't done so yet. That's got to be very many hundred more saplings to come, maybe a thousand. | + | I've got three buckets and a dustbin crammed full of willow cuttings, it seems that the larger ones in the buckets will root fine, the smaller ones haven't done so yet. That's got to be very many hundred more saplings to come, maybe a thousand. |
| - | --- | + | ==== Update at end of Year 1 ==== |
| - | Some thoughts on land: | + | I started late April and planted what I could find, which was sycamore and willow. I got a lot of grief on facebook for planting sycamore - oh well. A year later I have: |
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| + | * Sycamore | ||
| + | * Willow | ||
| + | * Horse chestnut | ||
| + | * Holm oak | ||
| + | * Monkey Puzzle | ||
| + | * Oak | ||
| + | * Hazel | ||
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| + | More to come soon... | ||
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| + | On germination https://treegrowing.tcv.org.uk/grow | ||
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| + | Some 2020 thoughts on land: | ||
| * [[https://futureforestsnetwork.wixsite.com/mysite|A map of tree planting projects]] | * [[https://futureforestsnetwork.wixsite.com/mysite|A map of tree planting projects]] | ||
| - | * There is about 15 miles of "motorway" being built near Cambridge, I've asked them if I can plant but haven't yet had a reply. | + | * There is about 15 miles of "motorway" being built near Cambridge, I've asked them if I can plant but I never got a reply. |
| * I think we will see a change in hill farming soon which will result in more planting land: | * I think we will see a change in hill farming soon which will result in more planting land: | ||
| * [[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2013/may/22/britain-uplands-farming-subsidies|Why Britain's barren uplands have farming subsidies to blame]] | * [[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2013/may/22/britain-uplands-farming-subsidies|Why Britain's barren uplands have farming subsidies to blame]] | ||