Coppicing hazel
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Hello Angi
There is an excellent little site at
http://www.allotmentforestry.com/fact/growown.htm
on growing your own beanpoles - explains in several pages how to set up and manage your mini-coppice to get a regular supply of poles.
It's been on my ToDo list for several years now to set up one of these but I've never got round to it! I'm afraid I use bamboo as poles - not very environmentally friendly though.
There's lots more useful stuff on this site such growing peasticks and making rustic stuff from hazel.
http://www.allotmentforestry.com/fact/facts.htm
John
There is an excellent little site at
http://www.allotmentforestry.com/fact/growown.htm
on growing your own beanpoles - explains in several pages how to set up and manage your mini-coppice to get a regular supply of poles.
It's been on my ToDo list for several years now to set up one of these but I've never got round to it! I'm afraid I use bamboo as poles - not very environmentally friendly though.
There's lots more useful stuff on this site such growing peasticks and making rustic stuff from hazel.
http://www.allotmentforestry.com/fact/facts.htm
John
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Does anyone know how much eight foot Hazel beanpoles cost. 
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Hi
We have an area of Hazel on our allotments, planted specifically to provide pea sticks and bean poles. It was planted in 1996 and we first coppiced (part of it) it in Feb 2006 for pea sticks and re-growth was very rapid so it was coppiced again recently. There are some bean pole lengths but there hasn't been much demand for these - the most demand on our field is for pea sticks. We'll be using the 'bean poles' to make a barrier to hold back the blackberry briars in our wildlife area. Since the first coppicing we've given them frequent mulches of grass from mowings of our wildlife area pathways and this seems to have helped with the re-growth.
We've left part of our Hazel area to grow as mature trees because its a very popular area with the birds for nesting but we do cut out individual long straight poles.
Jea
We have an area of Hazel on our allotments, planted specifically to provide pea sticks and bean poles. It was planted in 1996 and we first coppiced (part of it) it in Feb 2006 for pea sticks and re-growth was very rapid so it was coppiced again recently. There are some bean pole lengths but there hasn't been much demand for these - the most demand on our field is for pea sticks. We'll be using the 'bean poles' to make a barrier to hold back the blackberry briars in our wildlife area. Since the first coppicing we've given them frequent mulches of grass from mowings of our wildlife area pathways and this seems to have helped with the re-growth.
We've left part of our Hazel area to grow as mature trees because its a very popular area with the birds for nesting but we do cut out individual long straight poles.
Jea
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The Agrofostry link is very useful thanks. I have two hazels in the hen run, one a Kentish cob and the other a filbert and have hard pruned one to encourage long poles and I've not been so severe with the other so that I get some nuts (if I can beat the squirrels).
I discovered by accident that Cornus is brilliant for weaving when I noticed how pliable the bits I had used for pea sticks were. I wove and twisted them into hoops for the low growing peas and they looked really attractive - lovely deep red. Also quite a few had rooted at the end of the season so I've potted them up to add to the hedgerow.
I discovered by accident that Cornus is brilliant for weaving when I noticed how pliable the bits I had used for pea sticks were. I wove and twisted them into hoops for the low growing peas and they looked really attractive - lovely deep red. Also quite a few had rooted at the end of the season so I've potted them up to add to the hedgerow.