One more thing to coppice for: Broom handles. I coppice on my 80-acre forested property in the Willamette Valley, Oregon and by far the best product to come out of that are between 2-4 thousand broomsticks a year. (I could do more, that is the number the broom maker in Eugene, OR requests.) He makes broom is the 19thC fashion, but has branched out, (pun intended) to include Quidditch brooms, which he then sells to folks all over the world. So, in effect, my broomsticks are now being used by folks in Britain to play Harry Potter's sport-of-choice... Is that a Circle-of-Life moment, or what... Cheers from a displaced Canadian, now in the Willamette Valley, Oregon
I'm in central Ontario Canada in an area that is not ideal for hazels/filberts/cob bushes. Besides bitter cold winters we have the added challenge of an eastern filbert blight, that requires our strains to be immune to the disease. Regardless, I have been growing hazels, both named varieties, and now my own seedlings, since 2013. Nut production has been spotty but I hope my 7 year old bushes have matured enough to begin more plentiful production. I really enjoyed the video and information (thumbs up) and would like to hear more about this ladies hazels.
Oregon found a blight resistant strain years ago, acres and acres were burned before they found this variety. Might be able to find one from Oregon state uni..
Really interesting, thanks sharing. Interested to know how much of such land would be required to generate a sustainable income, it of it typically needs to be combined with something else?
Depends. I have planted hazel destined for coppice using trees accumulated in our tree nursery from leftovers form other projects. We were a conservation organisation working on a no-budget project (often the case). The hazels went in late, already leafing out and were all different ages with the bigger ones having lots of damage to the root stock. We planted them, watered them in and cut them at ground level immediately. They went berserk. all survived. No watering, large multi-stemmed and ready for harvest as hedging heathers at five years. Next cut at five years, too. Good soil (former veg garden) rainy Surrey climate with hot dry spells in summer. Planted others in the same way since, plus a variety of UK natives as ancient-hedge pastiches. Works excellently, but you obviously can't do it if grazers (stock, deer) have access or the little sprouts all get et.
Hi. Thanks for your question. Cobnut trees can be coppiced in the same way as common hazel. However, whether you want to coppice a cobnut tree or not depends on what you hope to get from it. Coppicing is generally to produce wood products for fencing, hedging, poles etc and to improve woodland biodiversity by letting more light in to the woodland floor. Whereas cobnuts trees are more often grown for their nut production. If you want to grow your cobnut trees for the nuts then a lighter form of pruning rather than coppicing is better. Over Winter to early Spring, cobnut trees can be pruned by removing dead and diseased branches, and any unwanted suckers. If the tree is very dense then branches can be thinned out and those remaining can be trimmed to a more manageable height. The benefit of pruning like this is that the cobnuts will be larger and better quality, and easier to pick than if the tree is not pruned at all. We've got a film in the making at the moment that looks at cobnut production through all the stages to processing the nuts so check back here over the next few months :-).
Unfortunately no, you have to wait a few years before the nuts will come back. My friend sell his Hazelnuts and he usually cuts half of the stems from each plant, so that he can still have a nut crop each year while letting a new stand of Hazel grow.
...but dont the grey squirrels take all the Cobnuts/Hazel nuts? Or maybe you dont have a infestation of grey squirrels near you? The Cobnuts/Hazel nut trees near me hardly ever get past the un-ripe, hard green stage.
As a point of interest perhaps, in parts of the USA squirrel meat is a tasty source of protein. I doubt they have problems with squirrels eating the nuts in those areas. I'm thinking about it myself if squirrels become a problem.
Towards Late July I usually cover my hazels with a tall steel wire mesh with chestnut stakes. It’s not the prettiest site but it stops the Squirrels from getting to the nuts before I do. I usually leave 1-2 trees out of 20 to the squirrels because they seem to neglect the acorns from my sessile oaks.
@@billastell3753as a point of interest.....there are 10s of millions (hundreds of millions? ) of squirrel in most every state that can grow hazel. No way to manage that.
Rotation is the purpose. What one gets from that rotation is what matters most to the Landowner/manager. As mentioned in the video: oil or nut meat for baking/cooking; pea sticks, sails and weavers for hurdles/sheep pens, and much more. Benefits include: clearing sections of woodland for agro-forestry, sheep/goat grazing, and wildflower pollinators for bee-keeping etc.
From the Norman French 'couper' to cut. An area of coppice within a woodland can be called a coupe (pronounced 'coop') from 'coupe' (accent over the e) roughly 'has been cut'. Also called a panel, a fall or a cant. I'm from Hants/Dorset and have always used 'cant', and what you called a cant used to depend on where you were from or who you talked to. In the original context, coppicing was to provide a supply of wood product for a host of uses from building through sheep folding, dry cooperage, baskets, fish traps, creels (all hazel) to tanbark (oak), fuelwood, compass timber (ships and small boats) tool handles (ash) and much more. Hazel was cut on average every 7 years, sweet chestnut at 7-9 (pale fencing) or 20-30 (hop poles) oak and beech longer, willow (basketry) much shorter. Areas within woods tended to be a majority of one species (more efficient) but woods could be mixed with other species scattered, along edges and famously oak as standards cut on a far longer to the underwood (often hazel). Charcoal, white coal, besoms (birch), and much more could be produced, so coppice was very valuable and jealously guarded. The name 'Woodward' comes from one who warded the woods, keeping grazing animals out and warding against the depradations of people.
Having a hell of a time trying to find a conveyancer to act on my behalf to buy a small woodland. Ive contacted 4 and havent heard a word back from any of them
fruiting trees should be part off the governments tree planting program especially on farms because plant enough it would help the animals plus make us self sufficient /exporter off some fruits , 100 million fruiting trees should do, fruiting i mean fruit we consume
One more thing to coppice for: Broom handles. I coppice on my 80-acre forested property in the Willamette Valley, Oregon and by far the best product to come out of that are between 2-4 thousand broomsticks a year. (I could do more, that is the number the broom maker in Eugene, OR requests.) He makes broom is the 19thC fashion, but has branched out, (pun intended) to include Quidditch brooms, which he then sells to folks all over the world.
So, in effect, my broomsticks are now being used by folks in Britain to play Harry Potter's sport-of-choice...
Is that a Circle-of-Life moment, or what...
Cheers from a displaced Canadian, now in the Willamette Valley, Oregon
I'm in central Ontario Canada in an area that is not ideal for hazels/filberts/cob bushes. Besides bitter cold winters we have the added challenge of an eastern filbert blight, that requires our strains to be immune to the disease. Regardless, I have been growing hazels, both named varieties, and now my own seedlings, since 2013. Nut production has been spotty but I hope my 7 year old bushes have matured enough to begin more plentiful production. I really enjoyed the video and information (thumbs up) and would like to hear more about this ladies hazels.
Oregon found a blight resistant strain years ago, acres and acres were burned before they found this variety. Might be able to find one from Oregon state uni..
Nice series about growing a woodland. Thank you!
Really interesting, thanks sharing. Interested to know how much of such land would be required to generate a sustainable income, it of it typically needs to be combined with something else?
How old /large do you let the hazels get before you cut them for the first time?
I think 7-8 Years
@@Jaeger04 Thanks!
Depends. I have planted hazel destined for coppice using trees accumulated in our tree nursery from leftovers form other projects. We were a conservation organisation working on a no-budget project (often the case). The hazels went in late, already leafing out and were all different ages with the bigger ones having lots of damage to the root stock. We planted them, watered them in and cut them at ground level immediately. They went berserk. all survived. No watering, large multi-stemmed and ready for harvest as hedging heathers at five years. Next cut at five years, too. Good soil (former veg garden) rainy Surrey climate with hot dry spells in summer. Planted others in the same way since, plus a variety of UK natives as ancient-hedge pastiches. Works excellently, but you obviously can't do it if grazers (stock, deer) have access or the little sprouts all get et.
How far off the ground should I cut for coppicing a hazel / kent cob nut ?
Thank you
At what age would a tree you have planted be ready for first coppice cut?
7 years
What type of Hazelnut tree variety provides the biggest nuts in the South of the UK?
Question, can u coppice cobnuts as good as common hazel ?
Hi. Thanks for your question. Cobnut trees can be coppiced in the same way as common hazel. However, whether you want to coppice a cobnut tree or not depends on what you hope to get from it. Coppicing is generally to produce wood products for fencing, hedging, poles etc and to improve woodland biodiversity by letting more light in to the woodland floor. Whereas cobnuts trees are more often grown for their nut production.
If you want to grow your cobnut trees for the nuts then a lighter form of pruning rather than coppicing is better. Over Winter to early Spring, cobnut trees can be pruned by removing dead and diseased branches, and any unwanted suckers. If the tree is very dense then branches can be thinned out and those remaining can be trimmed to a more manageable height. The benefit of pruning like this is that the cobnuts will be larger and better quality, and easier to pick than if the tree is not pruned at all.
We've got a film in the making at the moment that looks at cobnut production through all the stages to processing the nuts so check back here over the next few months :-).
Do they produce nuts the first season after coppicing?
Unfortunately no, you have to wait a few years before the nuts will come back.
My friend sell his Hazelnuts and he usually cuts half of the stems from each plant, so that he can still have a nut crop each year while letting a new stand of Hazel grow.
...but dont the grey squirrels take all the Cobnuts/Hazel nuts? Or maybe you dont have a infestation of grey squirrels near you?
The Cobnuts/Hazel nut trees near me hardly ever get past the un-ripe, hard green stage.
As a point of interest perhaps, in parts of the USA squirrel meat is a tasty source of protein. I doubt they have problems with squirrels eating the nuts in those areas. I'm thinking about it myself if squirrels become a problem.
Towards Late July I usually cover my hazels with a tall steel wire mesh with chestnut stakes. It’s not the prettiest site but it stops the Squirrels from getting to the nuts before I do. I usually leave 1-2 trees out of 20 to the squirrels because they seem to neglect the acorns from my sessile oaks.
@@billastell3753as a point of interest.....there are 10s of millions (hundreds of millions? ) of squirrel in most every state that can grow hazel. No way to manage that.
@@Jaeger04this is probably the only feasible way
What’s the purpose of coppicing? It means cutting it down, right?
Rotation is the purpose. What one gets from that rotation is what matters most to the Landowner/manager.
As mentioned in the video: oil or nut meat for baking/cooking; pea sticks, sails and weavers for hurdles/sheep pens, and much more.
Benefits include: clearing sections of woodland for agro-forestry, sheep/goat grazing, and wildflower pollinators for bee-keeping etc.
From the Norman French 'couper' to cut. An area of coppice within a woodland can be called a coupe (pronounced 'coop') from 'coupe' (accent over the e) roughly 'has been cut'. Also called a panel, a fall or a cant. I'm from Hants/Dorset and have always used 'cant', and what you called a cant used to depend on where you were from or who you talked to.
In the original context, coppicing was to provide a supply of wood product for a host of uses from building through sheep folding, dry cooperage, baskets, fish traps, creels (all hazel) to tanbark (oak), fuelwood, compass timber (ships and small boats) tool handles (ash) and much more. Hazel was cut on average every 7 years, sweet chestnut at 7-9 (pale fencing) or 20-30 (hop poles) oak and beech longer, willow (basketry) much shorter. Areas within woods tended to be a majority of one species (more efficient) but woods could be mixed with other species scattered, along edges and famously oak as standards cut on a far longer to the underwood (often hazel). Charcoal, white coal, besoms (birch), and much more could be produced, so coppice was very valuable and jealously guarded. The name 'Woodward' comes from one who warded the woods, keeping grazing animals out and warding against the depradations of people.
Great answers. Thank you
This England, congratz
Having a hell of a time trying to find a conveyancer to act on my behalf to buy a small woodland.
Ive contacted 4 and havent heard a word back from any of them
No squirrels or birds eating those nuts?
ANSWER ME!
fruiting trees should be part off the governments tree planting program especially on farms because plant enough it would help the animals plus make us self sufficient /exporter off some fruits , 100 million fruiting trees should do, fruiting i mean fruit we consume
The problem is not so much growing fruit trees, it's turning fruit growing into a viable business.