Replacing Privet Hedge with Fencing

Quite a productive/destructive day today, I actually feel I have done a hell of a lot of good though. The Privet is around 7' along the whole length and I've cleared loads of the dead stuff out. Tree to the left has a much better shape and again removed a load of dead stuff.
The Cherry was diseased and thus very rotten so I had to take much more of that down than I wood (he he) have liked but needs must. Again with the Blackthorn between the Cherry and the Conifer has almost been coppiced to removed the dead stuff. Pulled all of the old fencework down from inside the hedge so a lot more air and sun can get in.
Behind the Leylandii is very little life... As in practically no privet... I will buy a few 6' privet bushes and once they are here I will rip the conifer out, along with all of that other crap behind it and plant a new hedge for about 3m from the boundary with next door. Hopefully that should take and I will lose very little in terms of privacy. As it is though I started to chop the conifer down with the intention of going to about 8' with the chainsaw but the chain is blunt and I was losing light so gave up...
Got a lot of nice wood on the lawn, some awesome looking spalted cherry in there.
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Looking good.

As for the conifer they secrete a chemical around the base to stop anything else growing, and the lack of light doesn't help either. Nasty things tbh.
 
That explains a lot tbh.
There is another tree of some description in amongst the conifer that is budding slightly... Will be nice to let that do it's thing...
Plan for now is to buy 10x 5ft 4litre privet bushes and 10x 4ft 4L bushes and build a double thickness hedge behind the Leylandii for ~3m than use the remaining to fill out the patches.
 
Leylandii down... Couldn't pull them down with the D-Max so resorted to chainsawing the stumps into the ground.

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Forked fishbone and blood along with chicken manure pellets into the soil then planted a double row (staggered) of the 5' bare roots dipped in Rootgrow.
Chicken wire fence reinstated and a good watering in... All done :)
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Yeah I'm confident it will. Feels so much bigger now there isn't a huge Leylandii towering over. Good shout up there to chop it out ^^^ So glad I have. No idea what to do with it all now that it is down though... It wont shred/mulch :/

Anybody know about watering them? Can I over water them and will they die if they go a few days without? I have literally no idea :D
The ground looks moist so I'm not too concerned, I've been sprinkling a bit on with the watering can each morning regardless :)
 
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Just beware of dogs, i am a dog lover and have one myself (old english sheepdog) where they pee on your boundry fence others will pee and kill the soil and plants.
 
Advertise the wood locally, someone with a wood burning stove may take it off you.
 
Beware of them? In what capacity? not really sure what I could do to prevent that :D
They're attracked to the fishblood and bone already which is unfortunate I guess.

I will chop and season the logs for future use, it's the greenery and smaller branches of Leylandii that are the issue. Clog up the shredder and I can't imagine they'll compost nicely at all :/
 
Cant realy do much where the street sign is just keep an eye on how the plants develop, Under development or wilteed leaves where others seem to flurish is usally a tell.

Dog pee expert ;)
 
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