Planting ash

[tracy]

Anyone know how far apart to plant ash when starting a new coppice?

[SimonFisher]

This page about Ash at Swepstone Coppice might be of help and interest

[RichardKing]

BTCV suggests 3 metres apart for Ash coppice, cut on a 25-30 year basis.

But I guess that it would be less if the cycle is shorter

[coppiceer]

I hesitate to admit this, but Swepstone Coppice is actually me.

I have had all manner of problems attempting to establish an Ash coppice. I am happy to impart the results of my mistakes if it might be of any help.

Personally I wouldn't plant any trees intended for silviculture/coppicing at 3-metre spacing. The Forestry commission recommend 1.5 metre spacings for growing "quality" Ash timber when I was researching the subject about 15 years ago. I would plant straight rows at that spacing between trees and rows but leaving a wider inter-row gap every 3 rows for maintenance access.

[tracy]

coppiceer, I LOVED your website. Will be linking it to coppice.co.uk if you don't mind - and might quite like some extra info from you for it, if you are willing!

[Hobby]

Coppiceer, may I commend you on the contents and presentation of your website.....it is absolutely fantastic.

I spent at least an hour reading the articles and have bookmarked the website for future reference reading....top, top work. Thank you.

[coppiceer]

Thankyou for the kind comments. Unfortunately the website is to be shutdown at the end of April.

Microsoft, the web-hosts, are scrapping the publishing software and I don't fancy rebuilding it all from scratch on an inferior version at an increased price.

[coppiceer]

Some interesting information here about ash from John Evelyn's Sylva:

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=298300&pageno=104