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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
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