Other farmers round here remove hedges – we are adding them back in!
We first planted this hedge in January 2020 as part of a Community Tree Planting Day – see stuff about that here.
It has done reasonably well, given the really dry summer we had in 2020, the wind and all the deer and hares who like a nibble. It’s interesting to see how much better the hedge planted (the same day and with the same trees) has done around the front of the kitchen garden along the drive by the house.
To the west of the hedge is what we call Mid Field West
In 2025, it has been drilled with winter wheat including the YQ population wheat, conceived here at Wakelyns by Martin Wolfe and the Organic Research Centre. The YQ has been grown at Wakelyns since about 2003. We are trying some fun new stuff with the YQ in 2023 – as here.
You will see these growing in this field from East to West (look at the QR boards) beyond the alleys which are in their fertility ley building phase:
- Washington State University’s Wolfe Population
- Mike Stringer’s YQ
- Mark Lea’s YQ
- John Turner’s YQ
- The Meta YQ
- The Wakelyns original YQ
