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Taliesin

  • Joined Aug 2016
possible ridge and furrow for orchard
« on: November 19, 2016, 12:00:25 pm »

Exploring creating a ridge and furrow field to plant a one acre orchard on wet clayey ground. Anyone here with experience of this? What sort of mower could be used to cut the grass?

wildgeese

  • Joined Apr 2011
Re: possible ridge and furrow for orchard
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2017, 02:47:38 pm »
Did you decide to go ahead? Sounds like a great way to stop difficult land getting too waterlogged; mediaeval ridge and furrow was done with an eye to drainage, I understand. I have no first-hand experience of it, I'm afraid,

How broad / deep would the furrows be? a furrow between each line of trees; so a ridge and a furrow spanning -what? 14' or so? Or are you using really big rootstocks?


I think you'd have to be careful to maintain your topsoil cover throughout - so how would you go about doing it?

Perhaps you could plant some other crop in the furrows at least until the trees grow up.

I think your lawnmower might need to be four-legged or feathery...

 

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