Leat Side Hedge
The day time temperatures up on Dartmoor at the moment are scarcely rising above minus two, so I dread to think what the temperature is tonight. There was no way I could have gone out tonight without gloves, so I hunted high and low for them and eventually found them in the very bottom and back out a seldom used cupboard. In fact there were two pairs there.
Tonight I am extending a hedge, which as you can see from the proximity of the fearsome glow from the near by prison; a bit further away from my usual planting sites. This bit lies just down stream on the leat, where I have gradually planted a hedge along a thin strip of land between the leat and a barbed wire fence.
I began planting this hedge about four years ago, with the odd surviving tree from predating years, some being in for about ten/eleven years now. Each year I add another couple of chunks of hedge along here and this year I have chosen to do the far end, where the leat comes up to the main road (B3212). Tonight I have only planted Oak, Hazel and Blackthorn, but many established trees of other types, which I have added during previous years; already exist here. so tonight I was really filling in the gaps, with what was missing.
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