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Wow check this out! This looks like an incredible deal!!! https://www.yorkshirewillow-shop.co.uk/biomass-super-willow-viminalis-hybrid-cuttings-x-10-000-special-offer-price/ 10k for £900!!! I think I would struggle to use them all on the 2 acres? I do have another smaller plot of under 1 acre...

I am forming my views still but I want fast growing definitely because the land is quite barren and the hedgerow is thin to almost none existent in places. So I would like first and foremost fast growers for screening and privacy. There are other great benefits though, like being able to weave...

How many cuttings could I get from my mum's willow tree do you reckon? It is one of the curly ones but the shoots were straight as I recall. It is about 15 ft I would say. Could save a few bob, but if the amount I would get would be trivial better to squash the idea and look for commercial. No...

My questions as to planting seem to be answered here: https://www.thewillowbank.com/willow-cuttings-for-sale/ Bigger ones tolerate more weeds, smaller like less competition. Another question, how can I get cheap timber for woodworking? My woodland on here is nothing to speak of so thought I...

Huh? I was just mentioning what was in the documentary. A historic thing, not what I am intending to do!

I looked it up and they are extremely expensive! £35 for just one is the cheapest I saw so far! I have read that they can grow from shoots and my mum has a small one in front of her house. I say small, so I am not sure how many cuttings I would get from it to make a whole, albeit small...

Well I have had no hard and fast rules and my thoughts are evolving with new information. I don't 'require' anything from trees except, having given it some thought, the nice feeling of being in a woodland. That is, the cover and general feel so I don't need to extract anything from them in...

There are grants available for turning agriculture back into woodland so they should be supportive of it. https://www.gov.wales/forestry-grants I don't see what any of it has to do with residential planning permission so not sure why you bring that up in this context. You say they won't like...

You are forgetting liberal use of raw human excrement as well. I watched a documentary lately and it stated the first thing you would notice if walking around in that period would be the stench as households would just pile it up outside ready for spreading to grow wheat and such.

The solicitor said it would be agricultural as the historic use. It had not been used for that in over a decade but was told it would 'default' to that. Once I decide what I may want to do they should be in favour should I decide to make change of use to woodland no? I thought they like that...

Thanks. :) Sounds similar to mine now you mention it in that there seem small veins of water in different parts. Also in the middle lower part of the field, by the southern road edge, there is a bit where it actually comes out as a trickle and lots of rushes focused around that point. The area...

Not sure what you mean? To drive on it?

I am not exactly new. I worked on a market garden for 2+ years which grew and sold vege to the local community so have a good idea what is involved, having been there through a couple of on and off seasons. Tbh, as I think about it more, since I hardly eat vege, apart from dried legumes and...

Thanks, but all the suggestions for growing seem like things that don't fill you up so I feel it is hardly worth the effort. I stopped even bothering to buy onions and garlic lately due to the effort of peeling them not really being worth it for the moderate taste they add. I tried a week...

Seems a bit paradoxical, living in a sustainable, self-sufficient, low-impact manner on a little patch is better than relying on intensive industrial farming and using big supermarkets which ship in from all over the world, no?

Oh that sounds great because of the uses of willow as you say and putting the existing landscape to good use. Wood make great use of that for shelters and such. There is a tiny bit of woodland in the corner and another section of almost an acre but really it isn't good for anything I think...

Oh well I have nothing but time so I am up for it if it is faesible. Hmm well since I am not that bothered about vege - I eat buy some but it isn't something to live on compared to carbs like rice - I was thinking maybe cultivate ornamental or conservation space instead. I kind of want to do...

Well adjoining isn't the issue, that is a sheep field, and it is horizontal. I guess they don't have such issues because their house is above. The water is running from the hill above apparently but there is a small single track road in between. There is a ditch on the other side but doesn't...

Should I try and grow vegetables that like boggy land or work on drainage to make the land not boggy? The space is around 2 acres. I saw a couple of youtube videos, one in scotland, so same climate pretty much, where they grew rice and said if you choose the right variety then it isn't too...

Hi guys, I came to my plot which I recently bought of 2 acre open land and 1 woodland approx. My huge problem is water right now. I had already been living out my van for about a year so thought I would be all set to get myself set up but of course the diesel cooker in my van breaks the second...