Mammoth undertakings
Amateur Gardening|March 07, 2020
Toby taps into his inner mammoth as he makes a few cuts that are reminiscent of prehistoric coppicing creatures
Toby
Mammoth undertakings

THE ancient art of coppicing​ involves felling a tree to stimulate new growth from the stump, and it dates back to prehistoric times – long before Percy Thrower had picked up a pipe and pruning saw.

To our bucolic ancestors, the woodlands were workshops, where the straight poles of coppiced hazel, oak and ash were fashioned into homes, fences, spears and spits for the barbeque. But even before then, when mankind was a twinkle in a monkey’s eye, coppicing was the work of woolly mammoths and giant mastodon that knocked over trees and ate the regrowth for breakfast (see the panel below).

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة March 07, 2020 من Amateur Gardening.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة March 07, 2020 من Amateur Gardening.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.