sime42
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I beg to differ. I'd be inclined to trim them off a little before their final height, say 6 inches. That way I reckon you'll get a bit more time and space in which to achieve a nice, flat, dense top. Though when all is said and done, because it's Privet, it doesn't really matter which way you do it. You can cut it as much as you want and it'll always spring back again. As long as you cut it at least a couple of times over the summer, you'll quickly get a nice finish. (Well, depending on your expertise with a hedge trimmer!).
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Brilliant. I feel my anecdote has been suitably trumped!
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Wow, things have got crazy on the swing front as well nowadays. I had no idea it could be made so expensive or complicated. Not surprised that people could be so litigious about it all though unfortunately. When I was a young'un we made a massive swing in the woods. It was from a beech tree on a steep slope so at full extent of the swing we must have been 20 or 30 foot off the ground. The seat was a 2inch diameter hazel stick and the rope was a length of dirty old 12mm blue polyprop! We used to change the stick every year or so when it got brittle. Happy days. I have to admit that I'd be nervous seeing my young son on such a construction now, but I reckon what's good enough for me will be good enough for him. Obviously it would be a completely different kettle of fish if the swing was for someone else. Not sure if I'd even be brave enough to bother to be honest.
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I had to look this up myself a few days ago. Only problem is I don't know what type mine are exactly as they were just some spares given by my brother. I'm going to trial and error it with a fork in about a week I reckon. This link looks a bit funny but does seem to work. Potatoes WWW.RHS.ORG.UK Potatoes are hugely versatile and a staple ingredient of many meals in one form or another – boiled, mashed, chipped or baked. Potatoes are classified as being either earlies or maincrops. Early varieties are ready to harvest much sooner than maincrops and are what we call ‘new potatoes’. Maincrop varieties are in the ground a lot longer. They produce a larger harvest and bigger potatoes.
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I really hope the media have the decency to keep his family out of the limelight this time. They don't deserve to be the focus of an intrusive frenzy.
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No bother, more for us connoisseurs..Dark chocolate Bountys are the pinnacle of chocolate bars.
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Nice. They look good. Ours should be ready in a week or so, just starting to flower now. It's a good time of year, with stuff starting to be ready to harvest after weeks of work. We're picking strawberries and mangetout peas every day now. The courgettes will be coming on-stream soon as well, if we get a few more warm but not scorching days. Tomatoes and cucumbers are a long way off still but got lots of other salad stuff like lettuce, radishes and Pak Choi to be getting on with.
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Not heard that before, quite a vivid phrase. Rather apt for the group of people in question here. Hancock resigning is obviously months and months overdue, but it's pertinent that he didn't actually get the sack by Boris. I heard someone speculating today that he refuses to sack any one of the number of failures around him because they are useful scapegoats for him. Probably a grain or more of truth in that. I can't help thinking that we'd be in a much better position now if Hancock had gone last year instead of Prof Neil Ferguson. The number of fckups with his name on is shameful, (Hancock). The guy is a liability. Just the rest of the fish to go now.
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Probably the best thing to do with big old machines like that, keep them gently working so they don't seize up. Same as us humans! There's an old Scammell sat in a field on the side of the M5, near Bridgewater. It's been there for at least 20 years, ever since I've been driving up and down past there. Each year it's more and more overgrown with vegetation and rusted away. A real shame.
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I've got a pair of wooden clogs. Swedish. They're excellent. Ideal for going outside for quick errands like locking up, getting logs or getting the washing in. Not soft and cosy obviously so no good as slippers inside, but if you got some as well you could avoid wrecking the slippers.
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I guess pulling a combine was a piece of cake compared to pulling a tank back in its day.
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A venerable old lady indeed. Lovely.
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I'd be very happy to have such a quality meat as Ibex in the kebabs from.my local joints!
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Yeah, I sometimes have to resort to a dust mask if it's really bad..
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Wow. Gravity defying for certain. All the more so when you consider that their legs aren't even arranged very well for traveling vertically.
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I don't know much about barrier creams but O'Keeffe's Working Hands Cream is damned good stuff.
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Never had much problem with itching but it really gets me in the lungs. Makes me cough a lot and sometimes a worrying pain in the chest.. Must be some kind of allergic reaction. I've never managed to work out exactly what causes it though. Maybe dust or fine hairs, or maybe the pollen when when it's flowering. It's rank stuff from all points of view IMHO.
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Very interesting. What's the recipe exactly, what proportions of each ingredient? I'm always concerned about it when I use glyphosate, but it's damn good at killing weeds. Does this really compete with it?
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Depends on the area you need to deal.with. If it's not too large then a sturdy garden fork and a pair of gloves is all you need! Nettle roots are relatively easy to remove compared to some of the real nasties such as Mares Tail, Bindweed or Knotweed for example.
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Very nice. Good effort. Not surprised to read that he comes from Stroud.
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I suspected as much.
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Here's some food for thought;- " Like “politically correct” before it, the word “woke” has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition, woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact." I was intrigued by this term WOKE that people keep using so I looked it up.
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It looks to me like you wouldn't be able tip the back easily because of the step up into the shed.
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HS2 really makes me despair of our politicians, (and maybe even the average Joe public as well). When challenged about the destruction of ancient woodlands they always respond with : "oh it's ok, we're planting thousands/millions of new trees as compensation". Obviously we on here all know that's complete nonsense, it doesn't work like that. The fact that our country is run by characters with such little practical understanding of how the real world actually works is deeply depressing. The Woodsure Scheme is yet another example of this malaise. As is the biomass nonsense; shipping woodchip all over the country, and even from beyond, to feed "Environmentally Friendly" power stations.
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I grew a Loquat tree from seed a few years ago. When I moved house 14 years later it was about 8 foot tall and in spread maybe more. It was on the edge of the vegetable plot so I'd cut it back a few times as well, branches and roots. They're nice trees. Don't think they fruit in this climate unfortunately, although I've seen some very large specimens in central London in flower, maybe they went on to fruit as well.
