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Hedgerow Calendar

Spring

• harvest willows

Summer

• Collect nettles & prepare for cordage (started to flower (stop picking to eat) - tall as possible - sunnier spot - not floppy at the top when leaves come off - just after rain. See this video about timing and this one - Midsummer is ideal, end of May in the sun is the absolute earliest

Late Summer

• prepare bramble cordage (long, straight new growth with soft prickles on that have grown through the summer - put by to dry and use later)

Autumn

• collect nuts and seeds to propagate for next year
• beware of bracken (August & Sept)

Winter

• birch twigs for besoms
• plant willows
• coppicing & cutting wood
• fibrecrafts indoors