How to build a dead hedge step by step

We show you from beginning to end and how to create your own.
Dead hedges are very much alive with wildlife and they can be as neat or as messy as you desire.

[helenhawkins]

I made my first dead hedge over the winter. It’s such a great way of getting rid of waste wood.I think it looks just wonderful. Great video 👍

[juliapratten]

So interesting, thank you for all your advice.

[judithhope]

We had a dented patch in our chain link fence where next doors dogs would jump up and bark at us. We wanted something instant, so we made a dead hedge to fill the gap in a slow part of our evergreen hedge. It is brilliant. We have hedges rather than wooden fences and several ornamental willows which need taking back to a stump every year to encourage brightly coloured branches in winter. Anything we need to get rid of goes into the dead hedge. The dogs have given up on us now, thankfully.

[Bluewaterpinessantarosabeach]

Hello! Just love your channel. As a generational northern New Englander we share many of the same methods . Now in N W Florida, with this island being discovered, I am flabbergasted by their insane management of allll flora and fauna. Yes dead hedging is the way! The hedge is always lovely and useful. Again, thank you kindly. Kelsey

[woodlandtales]

Great video. We love dead hedging too. In fact we have plans to create a dead hedge alongside the track that borders our woodland. Looking forward to doing it.
Thankyou for sharing . Diane (woodland tales)

[agood]

This was a fun video. Thanks for sharing. I started thinking to make piles, but I'll try the cut wood hedge/fence too!

[Bluewaterpinessantarosabeach]

Oh hazel wood is beautiful. I miss my woodlands and fields of far Northern Vermont, but my daughter and Mathew are on the vast lands readying now for sugaring and not sleeping whilst the sap runs!

[gittebarton]

Loved it, thank you so much for sharing

[trevorpole]

This is great..fantastic way to live, good luck!

[judypaszek]

Im making a deadhedge because I believe its probably the best fencing for goats and its free

[lakerallison]

I have a ton of pendulous sedge and brambles that I’m clearing I’m adding that making a sedge hedge? Haha, not much wood at the moment but I’m thinking it will be still valuable to wildlife, insects mammals etc

[Bluewaterpinessantarosabeach]

We have wild boar that are nasty and infested with numerous parasitic infestations and more. They are fierce.

[Bluewaterpinessantarosabeach]

The Capistrano migratiry birds have been stopping in.