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Mistress Rose
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I would suggest cutting in blocks as it makes protection easier and you get enough light for the flora, as you say. Unless you don't have deer where you are, you will need some sort of deer fencing round the hazel coppice. Afraid I don't know anything about alder though.
You don't have to conform to the exact theoretical plan. As long as you have other tree and shrub cover next to your plots, you could do the two southern coups first then the two northern ones. Alder should grow quite quickly, so after the first year the new growth should be several feet high.
I would suggest coups no larger than 1 acre, but 1/2 or even 1/4 acre plots are not too bad. Much smaller than that and you won't have a large enough area for the light to get in. I suggest doing one plot a year for hazel, as it has about a 7 year rotation. As I said, I don't know a lot about alder, but if you are expecting to cut it when it gets to firewood size (about 3" dia minimum) then you could either do one small coup a year or a larger one every other year as I would expect something like a 20 year rotation (?).
Once you have your coppice in rotation, hazel needs to be kept there by cutting every 7 years as it will improve each rotation. Longer rotation crops are not so critical. |
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