The hedging plants have arrived 10 days early! That means I have spent three days now trying to remove clumps of English Ivy like Jungle Vines from the hedge. Three 1 x 1 x 1 metre bags are full of the stuff and there are gaps in the hedge where old rotten tree stumps have crumbled away.
Inside the hedges and around my feet were brambles and my legs are scratched to bits where they have wrapped themselves around me when I have been tackling the Ivy. It's pretty painful but at least these gloves are doing there job and so my hands are fine but my legs, not so much LOL.
We need to get the plants in as soon as possible to give them a good chance to take root and hopefully fill the gaps. In some cases I can bend some of the younger tree branches to start to fill in the gaps too.
I've been waiting for a quote to do the front wall - it needs re-pointing and so I daren't get any of the new trees near it whilst they do that! If I wait any longer I will have to do it myself - which I don't fancy - I feel knackered and aching after pulling and cutting out the Ivy as it is so working on a wall and knocking up cement do not fill me with glee!
Time for a rest and wait for my partner to get home and hopefully we can get trees planted and clean up the hedge borders. The Ivy has left pockets of vegetation in the branches and so we have compost and rot to deal with. Hopefully the opening up of this area will allow the trees to sprout from lower down this year and we can get our new trees to start to grow a bit ready for improving the Hedge over the years. The Ivy though is horrendous and needs to be tackled regularly to keep it down.
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