Devon Hedge Week question: is laying good and flailing bad? Lock's Park Farm blog has the answer

At the end of Devon Hedge week, the Lock’s Park Farm blog has tackled the ‘Laying is good. Flailing is bad’ issue head on, and gives an insight into the lifecycle of the famous Devon hedge.

“There’s still a lot of poor hedge cutting practice about, but flail mowing itself is not a bad thing. In fact hedge cutting is positively beneficial in most cases, and the flail is the best means available in the majority of circumstances,” says Paula on the Lock’s Park Farm blog – stories from a small organic farm in Devon.

Cutting promotes thick, dense cover necessary for many smaller breeding birds (warbler, finch, sparrow, dunnock) and dormice.

To find out more about the laying/flailing issue, head over to Locks Park Farm, (plus there’s a picture of a dormouse).