Dead …?
When is a dead hedge not dead? When it’s alive!
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| Now ready for tenants… |
We get quite a lot of sticks and branches as we do maintenance work in the garden. Our perennials produce a small mountain of woody stems as we tidy away the growth from the year. And our meadows and lawn generate large quantities of material.
Shredding takes a lot of time.
Burning produces a lot of smoke.
So we use all of this valuable ‘waste’ to make a ‘lasagne’ for wildlife.
We layer up a ‘hedge’ of dead material: a dead hedge.
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| A layer of branches and sticks.. |
Twigs and sticks and branches then grass and hay, then perennial material then twigs and sticks and branches again and do on.
And voila!! A luxurious warm, thatched home for invertebrates, small mammals, amphibians, slow worms and birds.
Over time it all rots down so new layers are added.
What’s not to like?
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