Willow coppicing, cultivation and an introduction to ramial wood chips
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Willow has many uses and not just for sculpture. It is fast growing, easy to grow, easy to chip and an excellent slow release plant food as ramial chips.
What variety of willow are you growing. It looks a lot bigger than basket willow. (S. purpurea)
Sorry for delay. It’s a biomass willow rather than a basket willow so it puts on several meters of growth each year
@@thoseplantpeople530 I got the willow for biomass too and it has the same name as willow for basket I didn't try to make baskets though :)
Your a very respectful family, great to see.
Willow is such a resilient tree. We have several corners of land and boggy bits used for coppicing, we get a good annual return of firewood and we harvest fir/furze off the road sides and anywhere the other farmers want rid. Peel it and let it have at least 6months seasoning , then add to stove with the willow wood.
Finally, seasoned furze wood is brilliant in a home oven/BBQ.
it is easy to find some smaller pieces of lands that no farmers can make productive from variety of reason. It can be too small, too wet or too sandy. I was able to buy them for a dirty cheap price and put trees for firewood and make small solar plants for selling energy
@@Railman122 Yes it's amazing how much can be "scavenged/foraged etc.
Can I still stick in some willow slips in a corner I thought I'd have done by the middle of March??
@@jimbanda based on my experience - You can try stick them at any time of the year, but everything will depend on the weather. The willow will die if it doesn't have access to moisture and the possibility for such event is much higher if You plant them on summer. Plating it on early spring will give it enough time to grow roots and reach deeper layer of wet soil. You can also try experimenting with thicker and longer rods - these are more resilient for no water
@@Railman122 Cheers Mate 👍