[amc]

Our allotment site is surrounded by a hawthorn hedge which the farmer enthusiatically flails about this time of year. However on the edge of my plot there is a good 6ft gap of nothingness which I want to re-plant with haw.

Can you take cuttings from hawthorn? I'm not sure...
The haw berries are getting nice and ripe, does any one know how to germinate them. The seed is inside the berry.. any ideas of getting the seed out and then how to prepare plant it? Will a day or two in the freezer help the seed germinate?

(I've tried training the blackbirds to excrete the digested berry and seed encased in handy drop of fertiliser straight into a seed tray but they just won't play fair...)

Any ideas folks?
ta amc

[compostqueen]

I have hawthorn in my lotty hedge too and I love it. the down side is that the thorns kept puncturing me wheel barrow tyre    So now I have a solid one  

I think you could buy some good sized plants quite cheaply, or you might be able to cadge some from your local Groundwork , Woodland Trust, BTCV, or council as they like to encourage these in favour of leylandii etc. Worth a try  

Germinating your own is a lengthy process apparently. Have a look here  

http://www.pfaf.org/leaflets/crataegs.php

[Debz]

I have a hawthorn on the other side of my fence and I am forever pulling little hawthorn plants out of my garden.  Are there no baby hawthorn plants under the existing hedge that you could transplant?

[SnooziSuzi]

I have a hawthorn on the other side of my fence and I am forever pulling little hawthorn plants out of my garden.  Are there no baby hawthorn plants under the existing hedge that you could transplant?

That's what I've done with some seedlings that have sprung up this year under my own hawthorn.  I've potted them on into some compost and out of 9 seedlings 6 have taken so I will keep potting them on until they are big enough to go outside and I'll plug the gaps with them.

[Johndeb]

Hi
Hawthorn cuttings can be struck, but it is such a cheap plant that you will get there quicker if you just buy some hedging hawthorn bare-rooted - the season will start in November.  This will save you a lot of time as you will need to cut your hedging back, hard, twice in order to make it bush out at the base and fill the gap so no one can get through.  If you strike cuttings, it will be next autumn before you can start doing that, so you lose a year, minimum.  If you want to find out more about the whole shebang this is a really good hedging and hedge plant resource.

Good luck

[amc]

thats a good link thanks compost queen, didn't know it took so long to germinate tho!!

Ta for the other ideas folks, I think I'll be finding self sets in the hedge bottom or buying some bare rooted saplings, a quick t'interweb search shows you can get em for about 35p a piece.

cheers amc

[amc]

doh!

[jaycee]

please contact me via PM . Want to send you those gooseberry bush cutting previously promised.
Thanks
Jaycee.

[amc]

Jaycee,
PM sent.
Cheers amc

[Penny123]

Firstly, to be sure I understood - you have vegetables growing in an area six feet away from a hawthorne hedge and want to fill the gap with more hawthornre. I was recently told by my veg growing experienced-neighbour that the reason my beans stopped growing when I put them out was their proximity to the hawthorne. It may be that the 6 foot gap was left by whoever created the plot for this reason, and you might be better to avoid having and haw closer to the veg than you have! I was looking for more info on this when I found your question! If you still want to , I would put small twigs into rooting compost indoors or greenhoused to cultivate new growth. Penny (or if you already found a way, I would be very interested to know if it effected your crops!