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endemoniada

Joined: 28 Apr 2006
Posts: 6

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 06 7:12 am Post subject: Hedging help please
Hi, I have an established hedge in front garden - privet and others. Is it possible to take cuttings to grow as hedge in back garden?? Step by step instructions would be appreciated. Ta Mo

Northern_Lad

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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 06 8:16 am Post subject: Re: Hedging help please

endemoniada wrote:

Is it possible to take cuttings to grow as hedge in back garden??

Step by step instructions would be appreciated.

From what I hear from my neighbours, you can take a cutting off a privet, stick it in the ground and watch it grow, which wouldn't supprise me given the way mine grows.

I'd do it now (within a week), or leave it until next winter though.

Bernie66

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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 06 8:21 am Post subject:
Privet will grow easily from cuttings either started off in water or just shoved into normal soil, i would put the cuttings into pots to ease their movement later. Do it very soon and take twice the cuttings that you will need to ensure you end with enough. Privet is probably one of the easiest things to take ctuuings from in my experience.

endemoniada

Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 06 9:50 am Post subject:
Thanks to you both! Cuttings taken - sitting in a pial of water. Starting to cut a small trench out of grass - I need muscles!!! I'll let you know how it takes. Ta Mo

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 06 9:53 am Post subject:
I think I would pot them up into 3-4 inch pots until next year, rather than putting them straight into the ground when they have rooted. That will give them chance to develop a good root system before they go outside.

Northern_Lad

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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 06 9:55 am Post subject:

judith wrote:

That will give them chance to develop a good root system before they go outside.

My privets are invasive little blighters: show them a piece of soil and they'll have it and turf out anything else that happens to be there.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 06 9:57 am Post subject:
Sounds just like willow. As you were then

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