Manus Crowley

Forester and ecologist based in Southeast Ireland. Practitioner of Continuous Cover Forestry according to Pro Silva close to nature principles.

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@ArableSam @rayofoghlu Pro Silva will be offering workshops soon for foresters and landowners in FT 10 CCF mix afforestation design

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@ArableSam @rayofoghlu Much better to plant the hardwoods in groups throughout the conifers

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@rayofoghlu @_JamieMcIntyre That's exactly what the FT 10 mixture is.

A mixture conifer species suited to a site including Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, Western red cedar, Norway spruce, Scots pine and European larch. Trees are planted in groups. Hardwoods mixed through also with groups of oak and others

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@GerryMcBride Chorizo burritos!

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This Friday in Kilkenny!

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@gloverstweets Is it time to patch up the fence?!

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@hometree__ The grant system also supports planting mixed diverse native woodland and diverse conifer/broadleaf mixtures. When landowners understand the risks involved they are unlikely to plant monocultures. We need to keep educating them but equally farmers need to inform themselves!

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@rayofoghlu Great ccf project to transition into a mixed woodland and eventually a semi natural one.

Depending on the soil types you could have a whole range of different woodlands. And of course removal on peats if considered appropriate

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@DrHaydo @NSERC_CRSNG @UNB Can I join in next time !

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@rayofoghlu @Bill_Linnane Did they actually look for Irish oak? Irish distillers used oak from Irish estates across the country to produce oak barrels.

https://t.co/sBDQbxZiwW

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@DawsonKristo @pippopotamus We planted an oak woodland there. Mixed in birch, cherry, cedar, sweet chestnut and others. we included some of those resistant elms through it. It's a beautiful site

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@Cervus1985 No, I'll leave it untreated. So it will weather to a silver grey colour.

I could treat it with Osmo oil and it would hold its colour but its too much work!

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Bit of light housework on the horizon. Irish grown Douglas fir from CCF managed woodlands.

Will be using it for exterior cladding

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@ShaneMcAuliffe1 @rayofoghlu Native woodland FT1 was already eligible on certain peat and organo-mineral soils. The clarification today was agroforestry FT8 using appropriate native species is also eligible on these soils.. its a welcome outcome

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@pippopotamus @DawsonKristo @St0neP1ne Spuds being planted in ground this year. But lot of Well rotted material added

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@pippopotamus @DawsonKristo @St0neP1ne Lovely soil in kilkenny.. feed it very well. Dung, and home compost

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@DawsonKristo @St0neP1ne @pippopotamus Yea, better steamed than boiled. Good for mash tho! Connect are a great spud. Make excellent chips

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@DawsonKristo @St0neP1ne @pippopotamus Massive harvest last year .. Still eating them.

Will probably go with these..

earlies on polytunnell - Orla, Solist
2nd earlies - British Queens
Main crop - Connect, Cara

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@NatureNymph @JennyMcNally7 @mickkellygrows Needs a few weeks drying on the ground before you store them away