Much should be taken into consideration before deciding to plant a large or a small area. Under this, we have 9 facts to consider before planting, to help make it a success:

Purpose of the planting

Is the purpose to create an area of esthetic, to make a commercial cultivation, to make a borderline of trees and/or shrubs to break the wind off, to protect the crop,  or any different purpose.

Choice of area

How are the conditions of wind, the slope of the area, the quality of the soil, and the risk of frostbite.  For example: Noble fir do not thive on soil with too much moist. And the purpose also needs to be taken into consideration when choosing the area: How much work is in the keeping of the area, and is this area accessible with maschinery. The latter is of great importance ,for instance in production of christmas trees.

Possibilities of grants and deductions ?

These years there is no grant for christmas trees. On the other hand the christmastrees are deductable. Grants for planting crop protecting borders, grants for forestry, and grants for converting from conifer-forestry to leaf-forestry are available.

Planting on time:

Is the time of year coherent with the choice of plants and the convenience of the soil?

Making the area ready:

Is it better to do a pre-cultivation, or to spray with chemicals or mechanically cleanse the area from weeds, to plough with trenches deeply into the soil, etc. 

There are different options and methods according to whether it is planting on:

- Agricultural land: It should be taken into consideration what has been grown before, and if there is a good soil, in which case it requires nothing more than to prevent weed spread, depending on soil type.

- Fallows: You must take weed problems particularly into account. A spray may be sufficient, but it depends on the soil type.

- Old forest floor: Here, the top layer of deposition from the old trees must be broken in a certain radius around the sites where the planting of new trees takes place. In practice this means that you scrape this layer away from the places where You want to plant new rows. Alternatively, you can eliminate the layer and have the roots cut up into pieces, before replanting, but it is often a more expensive way.

Also there is a difference on weather the grounds are:

- Hard: plough with trenches deeply into the soil, and harrowing before planting is essential to make the soil looser and promote root development when planting.

- Sandy: Ploughing vith deep trenches and harrowing / depth-plowing the soil will do good to start new plants in.

- Heavy soils: plowing if needed, or:

If it is suitable to plant, without further action, consider what weed problems could become serious and make efforts to avoid them as much as possible. Especially grasses are problematic in Christmas tree crops, and therefore spraying of grass weeds is advisable.

If you wish not to use chemicals, it would be wise to plough in trenches. A pre-cultivation of lark, birch or alder would be a good choice, in which case cheap plants in wider distances would do. Later the real cultivation can be proceeded, for example beech, oak, etc.

Choosing the plants:

Which species, providence and size are you to choose? Will you use chemicals to treat and maintain the area, or not? Mekanical cleansing requires larger plants and is financially more costly to do. In commencing forestry more difference in size is acceptable, whilst growing christmas trees needs much more homogeneous size.

Choise of supplier:

There is immence difference in the professional level and in the serious attitude of suppliers. The best thing to do is to go directly to the grower and to see the plants beforehand. You plant for life: Price and quality is bound up with eachother.

Approval from authorities:

Local restrictions can be of great influence on the planting plans. Restrictions on cultivation, for example in areas close to a public road, etc. Also there are rules of limitation to precisely how much one can plant i the total area of farmland.

Caring for the crop

How is the quality of the soil? Is the area easily accessible with machinery? Is the cultivation to be ecological or not? Will the area be cleansed by sheep? Fencing the area often will be necessary in producing christmas trees and starting forestry.

                   Coniferous trees                            Leaf-trees                        

Facts that influence the choice of plants:..

Our great experience in starting forests and our cooperation with the leading experts of forestry in Denmark, makes us able to offer You a complete range of advice on any forestry project- and hereby designing the planting for any area. By consulting us we take your options into consideration by:

Successfull planting needs thorough planning and using prime quality plants, meeting the conditions you have. We can offer you both.

Planting for the wild increases the hunting-value of the land: We have an increasing demand for planting to attract the wildlife. It lasts for life.