Content
- How to shorten your beech hedge
- The right time to cut
- Cut too high hedges gradually
- So the beech hedge is getting pretty straight
- Beech hedges cut diagonally
- Tips
The best time for a radical pruning is the early spring
How to shorten your beech hedge
Beech trees are good cut compatible. Of course, this also applies to the beech hedge.If the hedge has become too tall or has not been cut for a long time, cut it to the desired height. What you should consider when cutting beech hedges.
The right time to cut
You should only do a radical pruning of a beech hedge in early spring, before the beech trees go out. Then the trees recover very quickly.
A strong pruning of beech hedges is only allowed from September to March. During the summer months, birds brood in it, which would be disturbed by the cutting.
Shorten the beech on a day when it is at least five degrees warm and the sun does not shine too much.
Cut too high hedges gradually
If the beech hedge has become very tall because it has not been cut for a long time, then proceed stepwise while cutting. The hedge then stays nice and tight.
Only shorten it by about a third in the first spring. In the second year, the second third of the series takes its turn and in the third year you cut the beech hedge to the desired final height.
So the beech hedge is getting pretty straight
So that the beech hedge is really straight, it is recommended to stretch a guideline over the entire length. You can orient yourself well when cutting.
First, shorten the beech hedge by the sides. Only at the end do you cut off the upper branches.
Beech hedges cut diagonally
Many gardeners are cutting off their beech hedge at the top. That's not cheap. It is better to cut the hedge at an angle, so that it tapers upwards.
On the one hand, the sunlight comes better to the lower parts of the plant. The beech hedge then does not verkahlen so fast.
On the other hand, you avoid by an oblique hedge shape that the branches break off in the winter under the snow load.
Tips
The pruning of the beech is an ideal fertilizer. Chop down the branches and you can use them wonderfully as mulch cover for the beech hedge itself or for other beds.