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Just put loads of new hedging in beech I think what's best to controll the weeds before I put  the woodchip down was gonna spray it of with gylosiphate weed killer as I been told but carefully not touching the hedges just wanted to see what others thought first as the picture doesn't show the full scale of it to go and do by hand would Take a few days as it's all round my boundary and is a few thousand feet all together 

 

 

 

 

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Look dead lol hope the come into leaf but beech as I understand one of the last to and ignore the unstraight wonky bit my labourer  did that and only noticed in photo 

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1 minute ago, Chid said:

There not dead and as long as you don’t touch the foliage with the weed killer it’ll do no harm to the beech 

Just the grass and weeds ? Will it matter if spray hits the bark or not as will spray close to the grass as can 

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1 minute ago, CushtyJook said:

Just the grass and weeds ? Will it matter if spray hits the bark or not as will spray close to the grass as can 

It shouldn’t matter but be better the less that hits them , as long as it’s not to warm and windy spray away if it’s hot or windy don’t spray hem as it’ll dry before they take any up 

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Eh up Cushty. Looking good. Now, a question. When beech sets in a natural environment, who goes round spraying?  Answer. No one. Why don't you leave well alone and strim as and when ?  Your planting a take a bit longer than most to leaf up but by the end of May it should be looking good. I agree by the way, lol. Spec savers might have been an idea. Jok.

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18 minutes ago, jok said:

Eh up Cushty. Looking good. Now, a question. When beech sets in a natural environment, who goes round spraying?  Answer. No one. Why don't you leave well alone and strim as and when ?  Your planting a take a bit longer than most to leaf up but by the end of May it should be looking good. I agree by the way, lol. Spec savers might have been an idea. Jok.

Strimming will slice up the stems jok to close as wanted a well thick hedge spraying or hand weeding only option fella untill there established its all taking ages to come into leaf round here nothing seems to be getting anywhere quick 

 

yeah the wonky part wants re doing but won't be dons this season ild wait untill there doormant next season straighten it up 

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Beech don't suffer with roundup touching the bark like some trees do and if your careful you should be able to spray under the branches. We do row upon row of them with a boom sprayer at work. You could trim a few of the lower branches off to make it easier.

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Looks good now beech are all coming out few are fully out a few are only just puffing but the weed controll has worked and looking good hopefully can keep on top of it and have a good hedge now 

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