sime42
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Wow! What will you be doing? I guess you won't be with the rest of us in the cyber panopticon. Good word by the way; Panopticon. Reading your output always increases my vocabulary.
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Really? [emoji50]
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(I'm no expert but) I think most apple trees these days are grafted. Certainly commercial orchards, and most bought at garden centres etc for domestic use. The root stock controls the size and vigour of the overall tree. A crucial consideration in a cramped urban garden or orchard where productivity per square meter is key. I agree about apple storing, and other fruit. It's impressive what they can do these days. The fact that we can buy English apples almost year round these days. It's all about the atmosphere and maybe temperature that they're stored in I believe.
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That's what I've always thought, distinctive too. Seems to be getting increasingly hard to find in the shops though.
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I'm eagerly waiting for my first ever Russets to be ready..I grafted some on to a tree a couple of years ago so well pleased to have fruit already.
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Apple's already? They seem early.
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I find a TEUFELBERGER multiSAVER is easier than a choke knot for anchoring the mainline to a stem.
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Holly hedge trimmings disposal
sime42 replied to Newark Jim's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Holly – Returning To An Ancient Tradition On The Farm | Permaculture magazine WWW.PERMACULTURE.CO.UK This week Rebecca and Tim experiment with unusual animal feed for the 'hungry gap'. Shows how little Google knows sometimes. Makes me wonder how soon it will be before some traditional knowledge of our natural environment will be lost completely. Wearing my pessimistic hat! Did you know that Holly trees are virtually prickle-less at the top, and most prickly at the bottom? As a defence against animal browsing. What's more, the more they're nibbled, (or hedge trimmed), the pricklier they get. Hence why frequency trimmed hedges are the worst to handle. -
Yep, the cutaway strop. A must if you're using a wire core I'd say. I use a Distel Hitch on my flip line. Always works a treat. If it doesn't grip enough just add another wrap. I use one on my second lanyard as well.
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Holly hedge trimmings disposal
sime42 replied to Newark Jim's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I don't think any kind of garden shredder is going to help, they don't like Holly leaves in my experience. A chipper on the other hand would be a massive over investment just for hedge clippings. I reckon the previous two suggestions are your answer. Or a combination of the two, lawn mower then compost, to avoid any tip trips. -
Good crop there. You're obviously not bothered by a slight oniony odour on your under-crackers!
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Crazy isn't it? I've seen plenty of ads asking for people to do similarly basic tasks. On the plus side; those of us who still do possess practical skills should be able to make some easy money in future.
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An undervaluing of technical skills, and today's appetite for consuming stuff rather than creating and making things. To add a couple more reasons.
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Completely agree. This big push to build and make everyone buy electric cars is largely missing the point IMO. The way we currently use cars is a massive waste of energy, regardless of fuel source. We need to rethink the whole thing. As you say, most journeys are under 5 miles, and with only 1 or at most 2 occupants. Cars need to be designed accordingly, and people encouraged to use much healthier forms of transportation. More and more fat SUVs carrying increasingly fat people is clearly not the answer.
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She's a lucky girl. If only younger people had the opportunity to do things like this in school.
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Glad you mentioned Dacias. I was going to but thought they might be a bit too obscure. They were the Romanian equivalent of the East German Trabant or Russian Lada. Virtually every car was a Dacia 1300 when I went to Romania the first few times in mid-late 1990s. Lack of comfort, lack of power, lack of style ........... No lack of spare parts though I guess! Interestingly both Lada and Dacia are now owned by the French Groupe Renault.
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Tough people, tough terrain.
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You can see why they've got a sinister reputation. Probably unfounded though I guess..
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I've always thought that Trabants were pretty cool, in a "so bad they're good" kinda way. There were loads still kicking around in Poland, eastern Germany and other eastern/central European countries the first time I went in the late 90s even.
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Nuclear is a tricky one. It makes me slightly nervous but I think it is a necessary evil; it's the only way we'll be able to satisfy our energy needs going into the not too distant future. Good insight into the chemistry there again. Why can't lithium fires be put out? The flames and bangs were always my favourite part of subject. I realised that my thoughts were somewhat idealistic. Hence the qualifier at the end! Even so, I'm sure that a lot of children don't need to be driven to school by car every day.
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Cars.
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This. Agreed. I don't believe that electric cars are at all the panacea that they're widely hailed to be. The fact that the electricity they run on has to be generated in the first place seems to be conveniently overlooked. I doubt very much that as the proportion of electric cars increases our domestic renewable energy supply will be able to keep up. So regardless of power source we will still be reliant on burning fossil fuels to run cars on to some extent. The fundamental problem is that there are too many cars on the roads and just as importantly too many unnecessary journeys made in them. We would all be better off if more short trips were made on foot or by bike, from both the environmental and personal health point of views. Take the obesity epidemic for instance. That could be improved by children walking to school and their parents cycling to work in the office, (where possible).
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Plymouth shooting: Jake Davison named as gunman who killed five WWW.BBC.CO.UK Jake Davison is suspected to have killed five people before turning the gun on himself. Jake Davison.
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Indeed. Bitcoin’s growing energy problem: ‘It’s a dirty currency’ | Financial Times WWW.FT.COM Elon Musk has highlighted the cryptocurrency’s environmental impact and governments are starting to take notice
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Amazon know all that plus a great deal more as well. Like what you thought about but didn't actually buy, what films you like, what stuff your family buys, even who comes up and rings your doorbell. The funny thing is that some people are more concerned about being monitored via a vaccine. There's nowt so queer as folk.
