Via Twitter: The Pros and Cons of Plastic Tree Guards

It’s fruit tree planting season, and this highly relevant Twitter thread, from Keith of @Stumopupfortrees – a small charity and community initiative with the big goal of planting a million trees in the Brecon Beacons area of Wales – caught my eye yesterday and turned out to be well worth a read-through:

Long thread here… from Keith, on tree guards:

I really don’t want to spread 120,000 plastic tree guards across the side of our lovely hill, the hill where I grew up and now farm, on the eastern edge of the Black Mountains. So, I’ve taken a good look at the pros,… 1/25 pic.twitter.com/OCENfulbmS

— Stump Up For Trees (@Stumpupfortrees) January 16, 2021

You’ll need to head over to Twitter to read the whole thread (the WordPress embed function only picks up the first tweet). Don’t be put off by that 1/25 tag. Keith has pulled together solid data and research findings on the usefulness or otherwise of tree guards – particularly the commonly used, plastic variety – and his conclusions are well worth reading and digesting.

And do check out stumpupfortrees.org for more information on their Brecon Beacons tree planting mission.