Growster DON'T! I'll get very cross if you pass out and hurt yourself in this heat. I went out earlier and phew! If it gets any hotter I'll have to take my thermals off!
I was wearing a Kent County Cricket Club sun hat polo shirt and shorts, Goosey - in no particular order..;0)
Today - Monday, just about finished it all in the cooler afternoon.
Got an idea.
The inch thick stems of the laurel and holly are all now about 4 ft high, and pretty well bare. I've cut all the dross away.
There are four larger 'trunks' of ash and holly etc at regular intervals, and as the cut hedge is still a couple of feet deep, I reckon a good idea would be to wire/tie all these bare - but alive - stems in bunches, and then tie them back to the bigger stuff. This will reduce the depth.
This will also mean that the additional strength will be there, and I can trim it all to shape as it develops. Of course, the wire will be there forever, but so what? It's no different to growing a hedge over a rusty old fence, and after a few weeks, you won't see anything anyway! The hedge cutter will be working well away from the stems.
Well that's the latest plan anyway!