AT A GLANCE
What to do if the beech hedge has dried up?
If your beech hedge dries up, drought stress, waterlogging, disease or pest infestation can be the causes. To save them, identify the cause and take appropriate countermeasures, such as thorough watering, soil amendment, or application of bio-fungicide or bio-insecticide.
If your beech hedge dries up in the middle of the season, these are the most common causes drought stress, waterlogging, Diseases or pest infestation. Significant indicators for the different causes are:
In coordination with the determined cause what to do when your beech hedge dries up:
A dried up beech hedge has died irretrievably when the branches are bending break through and under the bark brown-dried tissue comes to light.
But there is hope: It is very rare that all the dried-up hedge plants have died. Run the vitality test therefore in several places of your beech hedge. On hedge plants with flexible shoots and succulent tissue under the bark, you can use the new growth
wait. You can clear sections of the hedge that have been proven to be dead and replace them with hedge elements that have been brought forward from the tree nursery.Tip
Rejuvenation pruning saves dried up beech hedge
You can save the dried-up beech hedge with a gradual rejuvenation. The time window for a radical rejuvenation cut is open from the beginning of October to the end of February. In the first winter cut Fold back one side of the hedge and the top by half to two-thirds. In the second winter you devote yourself to the other side of the hedge and the flanks. After each stage cut fertilize the beech hedge with compost.
