Game cover

[Proudly]

We have very little cover left on our ground after the frosts kill it off. We are limited to a long stretch of riverbank, hedgerows & a single strip wood on a steep bank. The wood often holds a couple of birds which can be cracking. The problem being a lack of ground cover in that wood. I thought about the possibility of hand sowing something in the wood but theres not a lot of light gets through & we cant put game strips in. Could our only other option be brash piles?

[ShootingEgg]

Is there any way of getting light into the woods, encourage bramble growth? In one wood we use we laid some smaller bushes and trees( 4inch trunks max) cut 75% through then laid them down. Lets light in but still grows and greens up. If not able to do this, making man-made cover in there would help you to hold them

[Proudly]

Theres only nettles early on in that wood & we cant cut any trees down so brash piles it'll have to be. Thanks

[Alycidon]

Laurels no more than about 10 yards in from the edge will help make the wood warm. Plant then at at about 5 years lay them over, branches touching the ground will then root expanding the patch.

 

Butt they dont like wet soil and are not to keen on clay or heavy soil either. Spray around them with Grazon this time every spring to kill any nettles.

 

Bit late this year now to plant though unless you can get water to them to establish.

 

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