Hedges: to keep or dig out

pendragon_arther

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Assuming the hedges are yours (ie got put in by previous owner of your house) then just get a mini-digger in. A few hours of a man and his mini-digger and job done.

I was wondering what to do about hedge type stuff there in my garden. Put in by previous owners of my house, so definitely mine okay thankfully to do with as I please and that was it. Found the man and his digger = sorted.

Was there no damage to the lawn etc?

I've dug out a hedge and as said before it's hard work. Can you not get a maintanance gardener to trim it? As well as the local honey remedy I used to have extreme hayfever but had 5 sessions of accupuncture and no problems ever since 20 years later.

Mojisola

He has tried it but not consistently. Maybe a bit of encouragement will help? (aka nagging???)

If he can't be bothered to make the effort when he's the one who could benefit, I don't think I'd resort to nagging. Perhaps leave the jar in a prominent place in the kitchen and leave him to it.

The important thing is that it must be local honey - not honey from a beekeeper who lives locally but whose bees are kept out on farmland but from hives where the bees are foraging on the plants in the surrounding gardens.

Also worth trying acupuncture, judging by pendragon_arther' success.

HulkRogan

The mini-digger option sounds good to me. I did that at my old house, and it worked fine.

Bunnygirl

They are hard work to dig up when I was younger I wanted all the hedges out. I really wish I would of left them in now loads of birds left the garden and never came back. Also it stopped the hedgehogs getting into to the neighbours garden as they are blocked off now. At the time I didn't no we had hedgehogs around. I care more now about the wildlife and the future of years to come.


Also with a fence I have to spend weeks painting it ever 2 years they cost load and need replacing over time.