dave fox

hi mate

happy new year and all that, bet you have been busy , guess its feet up time now and a well deserved rest (if only). well i have just come back from kenya had a couple of weeks with the out laws who live over there , bit to hot for me 35 degrees plus. but on the farm we are starting daffodils (indoor) and i have started to pot up some norway spruce in large containers , on the down side i found vine weevil in some of the trees !!! have you come across this pest if so how do you combat against it , we have ,had trouble with them in the strawberrys before but destroyed the plants , bit reluctant to do that with the 3 year old trees though. we use equity (dursban) as a drench , and have tried provardo ( systemic insecticide) but to no joy , will the trees survive???

all the best

dave fox

not long till asparagus mate!!

hi mate

will be taking up an orchard this november, will keep you informed closer the time.

hi mate how did you get on at the weekend?

hi rik

i sent you a message last night but was not sure you recived it ?

hey sorry mate it was ment as a joke.sorry.

dave fox

hi rik

thanks for the repy ,so july onwards then for shareing and what about the leader do you trim that off to stall the desiered height of the tree? on the scots pine a couple of year back i sprayed for a bad affid infestation as a matter of course (they borderd potatoes!!) do they knock the trees growth or is it something to do as a anual treatment? our soil is a rich silt loam good drainage would i need to npk the trees is that a spring application or just as the new growth starts ?

i hope its ok to ask these questions and hope it don't seem to cheaky?

hope shareing xmas trees isnt as hard a work as asparagus picking!!

regards dave fox

hi mate

i wonder if you could give me some advice, i am a small farmer from east anglia, and grow a very modest amount of xmas trees, we grow them around the farm as field border markers and as wind breaks near polly tunnles and wind breaks along are asparagus field about 500 in total we have a farm shop and sell a few at xmas. we grow scots pine and norway spruce, do you trim and shape yours ? do you have any info on that ?

regards

dave fox

Hi, yes its on the sutton road. A1101

ha goldcrest!