Hedge Trimming Cookstown

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Hedge Trimming Cookstown
Hedge cutting and garden maintenance in Cookstown are extremely important when it comes to defining your exterior boundaries with your neighbours.
Like all garden maintenance jobs in Cookstown, planning is extremely important, and none more so than the equipment to be used. Not only is it important to ensure your trimmers and shears are in good working order but you must also give some thought to your safety equipment such as gloves, goggles and for high positioned tasks helmets and proper boots.
For smaller hedges in Cookstown hand shears would normally suffice however for large scale jobs petrol or electrical trimmers would be seen as the standard option nowadays.
The majority of hedges in Cookstown have to be clipped after planting and then twice a year in spring and late summer. Normally, you would only trim the side shoots of more temperately growing hedges leaving the leading shoots untouched. The most vigorous species might need trimming 2 or 3 times in the growing season. Once the leading shoots have attained the desired height, trim them level to make a flat-topped, wider-growing hedge.
Whilst trimming the hedge, it's extremely important to make sure you always have a good vantage point to assess how your "lines" are running as it's very difficult to determine accurately by eye; it's only when you have finished that any mistakes become apparent.
The great thing about working in a garden in Cookstown is that its a dynamic environment - even if you do make mistakes they will soon be remedied - take for example the rosebush; roses are very hardy and forgiving, so short of cutting them off an inch above the ground, it's hard to make a mistake. Get a good sharp pair of secateurs for this job. Cut off all the dead branches and the branches that are aiming in the wrong directions. Finally trim the branches that you want to regenerate the new buds for future growth - keep around three growth buds on the branch in question.
Another great tip for freshening up the layout is to move plants from one part of the garden to the other. If you are moving shrubs, don't try it with anything too big, as you will have problem getting up all the roots. But for smaller shrubs such as daphne, rosemary or roses (again), all you need to do is first dig a sizeable hole where you desire to place the shrub. Put some blood and bone down the end. Then cautiously dig up the shrub you want to transplant, taking as much root and as much soil around the root as you can. Then move the shrub - roots, soil and all - into the pit where it's going to do. Put in as much soil as you need to fill the hole to the top, then water it.
In an ideal world, it is best to trim young hedges after three weeks of planting them, allowing natural lateral growth. If a hedge is new, it should be trimmed only by a few inches and from its top, to encourage lateral growth.
To level a hedge, you should use sticks and rope to guide your ideal level, so that you don't have to work by eye and take off more than is necessary, resulting in a lopsided or generally uneven hedge. Additionally, only outgrowth should be trimmed, so that the hedge maintains its shape fully.
Hedge trimming and hedge pruning should ideally take place in mid to late summer, giving enough time for it to grow back prior to winter, regaining its strength. Also for this reason, trimming should take place over time, with intervals, so not to over trim the hedge, causing weakness and a messy shape.
To get your garden started, it is often advisable to enlist the help of professionals, at a minimal cost, who will provide you with a "blank canvas" which you can sculpt into your own vision. This way, you will not have to worry about all the complicated aspects of starting a garden from scratch.
Feel free to call us now in order to save yourself time and effort in Cookstown