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Tony Croft aka hamadryad

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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    lol, its allright mate, welcome to the great outdoors!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    wrong tony mate,
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    hate to state the obvious again treeser! sometimes its better to just keep my mouth shut as its just too easy. (im playing) its insect eggs
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Im coming along, anyone meeting up for a group beer during the day saturday?
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    and Ihe when he has missed the blindingly obvious and is clearly in denial!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Ive been putting feeders out for the birds for a year now, I am pleased to have a pair of jays on a regular visit now. I have recently started growing my own veg and fruit in the garden and this has also seen all manner of wildlife coming into the garden. I cannot tell you the joys ive had in recent weeks. Staurday morning I watched a fox at 6am picking of slugs and snails from the Brassica patch, ive had finches of all sorts but so chuffed to see goldfinches, one of my faves. I intend to plant flowers for bees, and supply a home for insects and solitary bees and bumbles, along with a hedgehog house, ones been visiting. Now allI need to do is get the bats to roost and I will be in total nature oasis/bliss:001_cool: A "common" species the jay i know, but i love them, a real icon of our birdlife:thumbup1:
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    you back peddling Paul! just teasing
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    we generally only ban things that are to be avoided for the wider implications. the U.S hasnt even introduced stop bars to chippers as far as I know:001_rolleyes:
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    douglas!
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I am having an absolute whale of a time in the garden, finally found my horticultural mojo again, after years of denial. The plots coming on leaps and bounds and im gradualy getting the plot all straightened out, a skips next for all the old hardcore and rubble thats been turning up, along with TWO patios, one layed on top of an old council concrete one! Layer of concrete 4 inches think, then 4 inches of cemented sand, then slabs! got the old fence posts to rip out then a new fence to go up, then I can build me log/tool shed. Going to fix up the old koi pond and convert it a little, thinking aquaponics but we may just stick to Koi with a few trout for the pan! [/ATTACH]
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    no not commercial at all, my own little experiment, if it works I will go into it as a business, species specific locally sourced Mycorrhizal inoculations, not soley but as a string to the eco bow:thumbup1: they are loooking gooood, and what a pedigree!
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    third that, I. hispidus, late stages limb losses rarely stem failures due to limb losses lightening load on stem, kind of works as a pollard/retrenchment scenario, and makes fine bat/owl/woodpecker habitats
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    youmust have read my mind! I had just potted them up last weekend along with a tap root severance to encourage more heart rooted form, one or two are struggling at the moment or where till i molly coddled them! they seem to be bouncing back now. two are still refusing to break bud? don't know why but did discover a weevil in the pot they all lived in, squished of course, then fed to the feral pigeons! I had just taken a shot out in the garden of one:thumbup1: what I need now are 8 handled tree planting pots to grow them on in for a few years while I confirm mycorrhizal inoculation and nurse and formative prune those that are destined for prominent positions. going to start compost tea applications this season too, see if we can curb mildew
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    ditto:thumbup1:
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Interesting question, seems as this is fringe at the moment, when you say soil drench what are you referring to? I have some, and I mean VERY limited experience of soil drenching.
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    look like normal root hairs to me dean, when theres an ectomycorrhizal association (ecto = external) the roots look considerably more lumpy. The fungi on the bank are more likely (as i already said) to be Lycoperdon, aka the stump puff ball, no doubt feeding off the buried bits of wood. Shigos tree anatomy has some excellent images of Myco associations, will try and get some photos from the book later.
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    good pics!
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    well there you go, not that uncommon then:thumbup1:
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Heres one for you me old mucka, and the host is what surprised me. R. ulmarius on Sambucus nigra
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    No, just a couple of guys playing puff my chest out as usual!
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    work at hieght regs suggest this be done with a Mewp, Soft rot above graft line, be careful my friend.
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    so you think bark plates popping requires thinning of the wall do you guy? no fungi involved till after these entirely mechanically induced symptom, the barn door will have a shallow cavitation involving sapwood an inch or two behind those occlusion rolls, thats about all you can say from the decay angle. Yes, fungi and decay are my fave topic, and Im doing fairly well on it, as youll no doubt find out in due course. I didnt place a smiley on my last post but I will add one now just in good spirit, at your comments:biggrin:
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    agree, he could go organic and properly not as in the commercial interpretation!
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    needs aeration and turning to break it down quicker to compost, a lot of peat free "soil improvers" are made this way these days
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I see the bark in sun scalded beech also

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