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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: spandit on March 19, 2013, 09:27:13 pm

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Post by: spandit on March 19, 2013, 09:27:13 pm

Hello,

I'm currently trying to buy an old farm that comes with about 10 acres of pasture (permanent pasture?). It's pretty low grade, very boggy despite being on quite a slope (South facing). I'm hoping to plant a proportion with trees (although what will grow apart from willow, I don't know!

I'd also like to dig a small lake in a particularly wet area but I'll be broke by the time I move in so digger hire will have to wait...

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Post by: deepinthewoods on March 19, 2013, 09:36:40 pm

hi from cornwall!  :thumbsup:

good luck with your plans, willow is a usefull crop.

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Post by: spandit on March 19, 2013, 09:47:26 pm

Thanks!

I'm hoping to use some for firewood eventually but also basket weaving and fedging/willow sculptures

I've only walked the land once and there's a bit of wood that needs to be cut but might need to buy logs in for a few years or see if the neighbour will let me manage his woodland... this is all dependant one actually getting the property in the first place

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Post by: happygolucky on March 19, 2013, 10:02:27 pm

Hi :wave: , no small holding but I love the countryside, anyway, lots of people are cropping willow now, I think it grows and can be cropped in a 3 year cycle so ideal for both baskets and fire wood....a new forest near me had a lot of newly planted willow!! I would plant some if I  had boggy or a bit of spare land away from houses...they do sap the water from around them!!! Keep us posted on how  you get on, we so want to move as well but have to sell first, we are in Central Scotland...!! :wave:

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Post by: Lesley Silvester on March 19, 2013, 10:18:06 pm

 :wave: and welcome from sunny Shropshire.  Whereabouts are you hoping to live?

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Post by: spandit on March 19, 2013, 10:29:46 pm

East Sussex is where we're looking...

I've already done a bit of fedging at my current house but won't get to see it grow now...

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Post by: Rosemary on March 20, 2013, 08:33:53 am

Hello and welcome from Carnoustie  :wave:

There are bits here where we should probably plant willow, but our sheep have webbed feet now, so its fine  ;)