Simon filled 'Cumberland Gap' with 17 loads of stony spoil from trench using 1 ton dump truck. We dug 2 large heaps of good soil out of the big concrete pipe inside the bridge. Some evil creature has stolen all the big acorns on G7. Moved 3 big planks 3.6m x 200 x 47mm from B&Q to Old Mill Stream to act as a footbridge across the trench. Old gate hung on new gateposts to allow access to Mill Stream. A branch breaks and I fall back into something nasty.Ī squall passes over at 6am, dropping 20 mms of rain, and the Mill Stream fills.Ĭoir mats fixed to OMS footbridge, battens fixed underneath. We build a cairn of big stones found digging the trench. More rain, and the stream and trench fill to beyond the big Hawthorn. PL lifted EyeMead gate off hinges, breaking chain in process. PL placed his own key lock in series with ours on No.1 gate.īarbed wire and locks removed from Cow Sqeeze and EyeMead gates to allow him access with his sheep.Īfter 16 mms rain overnight, the Mill Stream is flowing South to North, and possibly reaching the river underground.įinished weeding new hedge in plantation.Įnd of 2 weeks holiday. Painted numbers on NT fence posts along new ditch to measure progress of waterĮnvironment Agency lady EB and her boss came to look round the new ditch and spoil heap. We raked the spoil heap to even out the top and sides to look better from a distance.

Took samples of 3 distinct layers along new ditch: Infill of Grit+flint (above) clay (above) gravel+pebbles. Planted 4 ashes by side of SE deer fence. Planted 2 more ashes by side of SE deer fence.Įrected electric fence along side of whole run of new ditch. Planted 10 black poplar saplings along S deer fence, Planted 10 more poplars along S.deer fence. Keith Childs, archeologist from East Dorset Council, came to examine layers in new ditch on Mill Stream. 2007- Most recent entryĬleared grass and many thistles in South spinney by hand (A plantation of 318 trees on 7 acres of pasture, with:Ģ58 major oaklets, 11 major oaklet spares,Ģ9 willow, 8 ash, 4 chestnut, 3 birch, 3 spindle, 1 aspen and 1 rowan) Well, veg-patch and Nursery in the Plantation. The secrets are in the grass, water from the ground, deer fences, good hoes and kestrel boxes. Oaks grow slowly enough for old folk to work out solutions to problems. We made every mistake in the book, but we learned from our mistakes. Meantime, a large website was built to keep pace with our work on the plantation. We got a grant and the media became interested: radio, television and the local paper. Battles against voles and grass began, with the aid of owls and kestrels and the hoe. 800 metres of deer fence was erected and local volunteers helped us plant the oaklets. A year was spent hedging and ditching, digging a well and a nursery.

Land came our way at an auction, no one else bid because the nearby river flooded a week before. We potted up 300 oaklets from 3 inch to 10 litre pots. My wife and I (both retired) collected the acorns from England's most famous tree in Sherwood Forest at midnight, and grew them in pots in our back garden at home. The language is terse, so much has happened that readers would get bored stiff with anything more profuse. I got the idea in 1996, got the acorns in 2000, got the land in 2002, prepared the land in 2003, planted the saplings in 2004, and have been maintaining the plantation since.

Licensed U.S.This diary or blog is about planting a new 7 acre oak wood in Dorset, England.

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