Winter turns to spring - preparing the land
Spending time at Bel’s Wood with the longer days and increased bird song is a joy. Having postponed the major planting from this year until January 2024 to give another year of bracken management, I have time for other jobs that need doing too. Before the new bracken re-emerges I have focussed on opening space for planting and paths and barbed wire removal. Opening paths and planting areas When the gorse was removed last February one section was missed. My fault - I didn’t recognise the newly exposed land and signed off the work finishing at the wrong gate. I have lost a small area for tree planting so have decided to push back the margin at the one side. I can’t pull it all out by hand but I have managed to lift some old dead trees which face north with few flowers and have cut them up so the wood breaks down into the soil. This will take a while and will give me at least one more row of trees over about 50m. Before After