Hedging

[ABRAHAM]

Conifers need to be planted in a soil that is high in peat or similar.
You can improve the soil composition by digging a trench where you are planting the trees and filling the trench with a peat based compost.
Or  you can by a bail of peat or peat based compost (substrata)  and mix it with the soil.
The problem in this country is that if you use all peat that will need to constantly water.
Pine trees do well grow very slowly if not watered a lot and they can also be trimmed to keep the height down, so you could mix the hedge. 

[alfie]

I'm planning on planting a row of fir trees [each about 1 metre high] to form a hedge.
Any advice about how far apart I should plant them, how I should prepare the soil and what, if any, fertilizer I should use would be most welcome.
At around €10 per tree I can't afford to have them all die on me!
Many Thanks
Alfie