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  1. tree-fancier123
    an old thread where David Humphries investigates gano on Holm Oak - he suspected applanatum, but wanted to rule out the potentially more damaging adspersum (10 y old thread and at the time microscopy was needed to differentiate the two species)
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    some ganoderma have spores like powdered chocolate
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    we are near the end of the growing season now, so you may not see any recovery till next year, but those slabs over much of the root plate, cimbined with this being a drought year have not helped it. Without disturbing the slabs, a few watering cans around the exposed side twice a week during dry periods may help it, or a hose if no ban. Ideally you dont have paving (unless porous) directly under the canopy
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    she knows it
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    Prunus cerasifera If you've got free time and he accepts why not do it next week? It's not going to make much noise so could be a weekend job even. I would say to him - if the general advice is June, July August, then doing it after the first week in September not ideal.
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    in terms of occupied housing the legals are more of a problem, say 200k legal net per year, plus 50k illegal and youve got an extra quarter million people each year to shelter. Landlords - if we could somehow ethically kill off all the people who rent from them the landlords would become forced sellers
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    even a more severe covid would have done the same, say if 2 million pensioners had snuffed it - all those bungalows hitting the market at once
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    I never used the word steal, occupy is enough. Those migrants granted asylum end up in bricks and mortar. Houses and flats occupied by foreign people. So if a spaceship hoovered up all the foreigners in an ethical and painless way there would be a load of empty properties
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    cutting back someone's garden last year - she had rats on her bird feeder. She got a pest controller to put bait boxes down and the rats went. Not sure if bait boxes would be safe around chickens and dogs. Maybe outside the chicken run, dog would have to be determined VID_20241116_104129373.mp4
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    not true, many Syrians have crossed in small boats from France - a safe country.
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    No, benefits and job prospects are. So as these are lower in e.g Bulgaria, legal and illegal migration to that country are lower than to England. So with less migrants to find accomodation for there is lower demand for houses in Bulgaria. So if we have 50000 small boats migrants a year and say 30000 of those remain, we now need extra housing for 30000 more people than the year before - plus extra housing for net increase due to legal migrants granted work and study visas. Migrants are the sole reason for UK population growth. The UK birth rate has been below 2 for many years.
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    there are lots of immigrants arriving in England, meaning the available land has to support more people, not many immigrants chose Bulgaria, or even rural Italy. Those places with less people, property is much cheaper . Surely without legal and illegal immigration England too would have less thriving economy, but also lower property prices? Rural places in Europe where the young move to cities or abroad for work, thats where the property is cheap. Supply and demand
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    my old man was a machine operator for a while and later prison officer, they were buying nice houses in their mid to late twenties on average incomes, you didnt need planning because there were affordable older houses with big gardens. Unlike today where building plots are .25 acre and the finished build with postage stamp lawn is half a million. So many relying on bank of mum and dad, because immigrants pushed up housing costs. House price to income in seventies and eighties probably averaged four times, its about 8 now
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    so the 1951 refugee act means we now have an acceptance rate of 98% for Sudanese and Syrians, 87% for Eritreans. No matter how many come, they have a legal right and we have to let them stay. I believe this illegal migration issue is so serious there should be motion of no confidence. Callaghan 1979 and McDonald 1924 both lost. Not likely to happen with Labour's thumping majority. My fear is that so many foreigners settle they eventually become the majority. Absolute disaster happening in slow mo. Anyone wanting to cut immigration thought of as backward and racist. 'We need immigrants with the birth rate falling blah blah' This country was fine in the 60's 70's and 80's. An extra 15 or 20 million people has an only forced up the price of land
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    a tripod ladder isn't essential - same as it isn't essential to change from using a family car to provide a hedge cutting service. A 12ft tripod goes inside the roof of a LWB Transit, or strapped on any pick up/ tipper. But a dedicated vehicle is a serious investment. Especially if you can't have an older one due to LEZ.
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    yeah - severe drought years seem to cause a lot of movement on their own.
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    because the original aim was subsidence mitigation - imagine 10 years regrowth that thing would be sucking up water like there's no tomorrow My suggestion is buy 5l of glyphosate 360g/l pry, scrape off ivy all around trunk at 1.5m high drill 10mm holes at 45 degs downwards, 60mm deep, 30mm apart in a complete circle around trunk, use a 100ml syringe with plastic tube to fill the holes nearly to top with 50% solution diltuted with preferably rain water, but hard tap water would work May be cheaper than ecoplugs - and either method will work best in growing season, right now probably still ok, or April. You need to take care with mixing and applying strong glyphosate
  18. tree-fancier123
    you can send it to Kew, but I would say they've nailed it
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    it was readable yesterday - I saw the MOD had given the Israeli firm and Raytheon £2m each to develop their bids. A £2bn contract for training - using modern tech
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    imagine how good a politician you'd be - your wit and intelligence shines through in every post
  21. tree-fancier123
    okay then - buy a 16ft all legs adjustable, cut it up into pieces and only take enough pieces to attain the height you need on a given day - use your ingenuity to come up with a quick release for the top sections, perhaps sleeves for the back leg Each section would need another hinge fabricating for the back leg
  22. tree-fancier123
    Trump blaming Biden for not letting Ukraine play offensive, nothing to stop Trump righting the situation now Trump on Thursday appeared to vent his frustration at Russia’s obstruction. In a post on Truth Social, the US president blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for not allowing Ukraine to “fight back” against Russia. “It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country. It’s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of winning! It is like that with Ukraine and Russia. Crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND. How did that work out? … Interesting times ahead!!!” Trump wrote.
  23. tree-fancier123
    Israel are the baddies here, they were forcing Palestinians out of land in the West Bank long before Hamas attacked. Netanyahu is behaving the same as Putin. Just like the small boats people are invading the UK, Israel is invading Palestine.
  24. tree-fancier123
    no photos of me taking the tops out, but you can see summerhouse it was over, the angle was similar to the one on left behind it
  25. tree-fancier123
    I have the foam filled (high voltage) Jameson utility poles with a hook (branch lifter) on, using 2 x 6ft poles I anchor as high above as possible, walk out until I start struggling, then use the 12ft length of pole with hook over some side growth at least an inch or so and pull myself out and up the limb with the pole as a kind of bannister, then when Im close enough choke the lanyard, or lanyard halfway and repeat, been out on a horrible 45 ash limb to clear a summerhouse using the pole to pull myself up and miles (literally) out from stem Both hands on the poles, hand over hand

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