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I take it you're offended by the fact that I used smoked?

Photos are always welcome Henry. Also, what are you planning to do with the timber, firewood?

Smoked tofu stir fry.

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Seriously, you think he is going to make American "food" healthier? I dont. They invented most of the crap, driven by the need to make ever more profit from food and agriculture. If anything he'll be trying to sneak even more oil derived compounds into his people's mouths. Drill baby drill and all that. Probably not colourings though, that was last century, there's far more harmful and more importantly profitable additives being used these days. Also, don't forget that Trump is still trying to push their growth hormone laden beef and chlorinated chicken onto our UK plates. Our beef is "weak" don't you know!

Thanks for your input Davey, but I think the conversation has reached a higher level now.

I don't think anyone is objecting to Trump's desire to bring more of the US manufacturing back onshore Gareth. That's an admirable goal after all, though it's never going to be entirely achievable. What people are objecting to is the way in which he is trying, and failing, to go about it. (I intentionally say Trump, and not the American people, because I suspect that the majority are now starting to realise the colossal mistake that it is turning out to be. (Despite the fact that he was democratically elected.)) With hindsight I believe it will be far from Liberation Day. If you actually took the time to understand how the tariffs were calculated, you'd realise that it's more or less economic nonsense. The global market turmoil that's now unfolding is clearly a reflection of that. Read that FT article, they're hardly a left wing student publication are they? With one fell sweep Mr Trump has hit some of the poorest countries in the world with yet more economic hardship, and simultaneously plunged the rest of the world into a cluster**************** of as yet unknown magnitude. Welcome to the global trade war. And guess what? The poor middle Americans that he's meant to serve will be effected as badly, if not worse than the rest of us. I'm bemused that anyone would still seek to defend all the actions of the potus.

I've never quite got my head around the idea of agroforestry. You can obviously grow a wide variety of fruit, nuts and seeds on the trees themselves, but I'm not sure how you can get enough light, (and water), underneath them to grow all the veggies or anything else. Maybe it's just a sparse forest with lots of clearings.

Donald Trump baffles economists with tariff formula ON.FT.COM Calculation deeply flawed economically and will fail in stated aim of ‘driving bilateral trade deficits to zero’, say analysts

Yeah, Totness is a bit of a strange place, always has been. Very "alternative" let's say. It's a shame that they barely talked about the Forest Garden in that report, much more detail on the agroforestry would have been better. Its an interesting and potentially fruitful research topic.

Field Maple is a good shout, the bark on #2 looks most like that. That big fat black bud on a green twig is a major anomaly though. The only one I can be sure of is #3 being Beech.

Indeed. Care to elaborate?

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https://www.google.com/search?q=rowan timber uses&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-m It's reassuring to see the number of times that Arbtalk comes up on Google for things like this.

Some light relief from the doom and gloom. Island home only to penguins hit by tariffs - and other things you may have missed on 'Liberation Day' NEWS.SKY.COM The EU hates "beautiful" American beef, Donald Trump won't stand for plastic eggs and penguins face higher costs to sell...

Maybe. It's hard to imagine that there can be any kind of Kompromat strong enough to make a difference now though. If all the shenanigans over the last couple of months, (not to mention all his previous misdemeanours), still haven't made hardcore Trump defenders renounced him, then probably nothing will. He can literally do no wrong in the eyes of a few. And even he probably realises it. Take Signal Gate for instance. That would, (and rightly so), have been enough to take down or at least seriously damage any other administration. Not this one though. They just went into full on denial, and then attack mode, and then just carried on with business as usual. The supporters lapped it up without batting an eye lid. Weird times we live in.

Fingers crossed there's no late frosts or too many maggots this year.

Does anyone else think that it's curious that Russia didn't make it onto the Tariff Boards of Shame at all?

Loving their hats.

There was a Bowyer on here a while back I remember. It'd be interesting to get his thoughts on the subject.

Yeah, I thought about that after I posted. It's not cheap as you say, it was fine for my few square meters, but might be prohibitively expensive for your 50 m².

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This stuff might be worth a trial. I used it for some internal book shelves, made of untreated, sanded scaffold planks. I didn't want them to go yellow and then brown as softwood normally does so I did some research online into suitable finishes and this came up, with recommendations. I'm quite happy with it so far.