by docsquid » Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:04 pm
Interesting article.
We use brash in a number of ways - as habitat piles first and foremost, but you get too much for all of it to be used in this way. We also use it for dead-hedging. The hedging isn't terribly neat as that is just an invitation for people to break it down and vandalise it. Instead we shove it in any old how, but mostly with the spiky bits facing outwards, making it difficult to remove. We then drive in stakes to hold it in place, but out of reach! We put it in places where the brambles will grow over it and form natural barbed-wire.
Then we do chip some and place it on the paths where they get particularly wet and boggy. This works in a normal year but has not really kept things in check in a bad year like this year.
Finally we bring some home and use it in the area of the garden where the chickens run around - they destroyed the grass in the 2011-12 drought, and it turns into a nasty quagmire unless something is put there for them to scrubbage around in.
