Woodland management

[low plains drifter 11,225]

On 07/08/2025 at 19:42, Arry said:

I don't mean it interfere  or teach granny how to suck eggs but if you leave so brash piles where you cut them you might get some good fungi.

I mainly find two sorts Winter Chanterelles and Hedgehog mushrooms both good eating.

Cheers Arry

A few popping up on some Birch brash

[Arry 24,899]

12 hours ago, low plains drifter said:

A few popping up on some Birch brash

Could be Birch polypore mate. A very interesting fungi not nice to eat its bitter. Sort of burst out and forms almost hoof shaped fungi.

Anti cancer, anti fungal anti septic can even use the skin of it as a plaster. Also reckoned you can carry o hot coal in it. Otzi the stone age mummy found in the Alps was carrying some Birch Polypore. They think it was for treating Whip worm.

Birch Polypore

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This common white bracket fungus has many uses and has been utilised by humans for thousands of years for its nutritional and medicinal properties.

Cheers Arry

Edited August 13 by Arry

[low plains drifter 11,225]

Bit work in a neglected unmanaged woodland plot today

 

[mel b 3,710]

2 hours ago, low plains drifter said:

Bit work in a neglected unmanaged woodland plot today

 

Lazy weekend as usual dude .

[low plains drifter 11,225]

2 hours ago, mel b said:

Lazy weekend as usual dude .

I usually put a holiday in at work on a Sunday, and have Friday to Monday off every other week, but was in today, and working on my own, we've started restoring this plot, it's and odd mixture of mainly Lodgepole and Ash, should be a tidy little place once we open up a couple of rides and let a bit more light in

[mel b 3,710]

27 minutes ago, low plains drifter said:

I usually put a holiday in at work on a Sunday, and have Friday to Monday off every other week, but was in today, and working on my own, we've started restoring this plot, it's and odd mixture of mainly Lodgepole and Ash, should be a tidy little place once we open up a couple of rides and let a bit more light in

You certainly know how to graft dude .

[low plains drifter 11,225]

Snaggy old day today

Back leaners, hung up trees, and always remember where your ridgeline is

Starting a stack of mixed hardwood fire logs from wood I acquire as and when working in other places, always good to get some Oak, Beech, Ash etc

 

[mel b 3,710]

Tidy days graft again dude.

All I've done today is collect hazelnuts and acorns .

[low plains drifter 11,225]

1 hour ago, mel b said:

Tidy days graft again dude.

All I've done today is collect hazelnuts and acorns .

What you going to do with the acorns Mel?

The Oaks are well loaded with them this season, plenty of sloes on the  blackthorn aswell

[mel b 3,710]

8 hours ago, low plains drifter said:

What you going to do with the acorns Mel?

The Oaks are well loaded with them this season, plenty of sloes on the  blackthorn aswell

I've got a very good mate that lost a teenage son(David) , through a drink driving idiot. 

My mate and his son , used to enjoy hiking , and would plant trees on there walks. Steve has carried on this traditional in memory of his son.

He grows oak saplings in pots , and then passes them on to other people to plant , for there own reasons . Some plant them as memorials , some to start there own woodland etc. 

Steve sends out hundreds of saplings every year . Most of them get sent in the post . He wraps the saplings roots in tissues , soaks it , the puts it in a plastic bag for posting.

He must have been instrumental in covering thousands of acres over the years.

He also grows a few  , Hazel , horse chestnut , sweet chestnut , and I've got one of his walnut saplings that I've been looking after in a large pot for a couple of years, ready to plant it in my woodland. 

 

I was looking around my woodland yesterday , and I reckon there must be hundreds of tons of acorns hanging in the trees this year.

We've managed to salvage plenty of hazelnuts this year , because I've put up a live camera , and can spot when squirrels are around , and get them shot . I nailed 36 of them in six months, all from my chair outside my caravan , when they head to my pheasant feeders.

[Greyman 31,791]

On 13/08/2025 at 07:35, Arry said:

Could be Birch polypore mate. A very interesting fungi not nice to eat its bitter. Sort of burst out and forms almost hoof shaped fungi.

Anti cancer, anti fungal anti septic can even use the skin of it as a plaster. Also reckoned you can carry o hot coal in it. Otzi the stone age mummy found in the Alps was carrying some Birch Polypore. They think it was for treating Whip worm.

Birch Polypore

WWW.WILDFOODUK.COM

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This common white bracket fungus has many uses and has been utilised by humans for thousands of years for its nutritional and medicinal properties.

Cheers Arry

He had hawthorn berry’s to if it’s the same dude in a pouch with the mushroom amazing how they understood all the properties of these plants before science or the net had even been thought of 

[mel b 3,710]

18 hours ago, low plains drifter said:

What you going to do with the acorns Mel?

The Oaks are well loaded with them this season, plenty of sloes on the  blackthorn aswell

I collected these hazelnuts and acorns yesterday morning.  I'll collect more next weekend hopefully.