Gary Prentice
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A liberal? i just wondered if your better half was as environmentally aware as your good self - after my missus bought a Tulip tree for our 20ft square back garden. Do you know big that gets? it has nice flowers! it grows to 70+ ft you can prune it
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If it succumbed to Sirococcus tsuga at least you’ve less worries about pathogens affecting the new planting.
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We (the missus) rescues strays so we always have new cats in the house. The dogs recognise the new cat and want to have a sniff at it for a few days (lots of hissing and spitting) then accept it. What’s odd is how some of the cats then start to associate with the dogs, coming indoors and greeting them, nuzzling them. It’s funny to watch the dogs expression as some little cat is rubbing their head with their own. The mother of the two rottie boys would grab a cat, given half a chance, she was a hunter of anything that she took for prey but these don’t have it in them. Nurture over natural instinct? I dont understand the pecking order at all in our pack, the dogs could easily be above all the cars but have never seemed to want assert themselves.
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Are they English bulbs? if they’re not, the reason not to plant them is the foreign bulbs hybridise freely with our native bluebells and are making making them quite rare. If theyre English, get planting!
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Stop picking on mark!
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What’s it feel like to be a burden on society? Far too too deep for a sunny Friday morning -
Atlas cedar mark? re. Replanting. If you’re replacing soil, it wouldn’t hurt to incorporate some nice mycorrhizal rich soil from a woodland/ mulch with cherry/hawthorn chip etc
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Never had a pecking order issue, she loved the children and never showed any sign of gelousy if I was playing with them and not her and seemed to understand her place in the social order of our house Sorry to hear this. We only think we know what's going on in their heads but I don't think we truly do.
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Had the same with a rottie bitch when my eldest was born. She trapped my missus in the child's bedroom for a couple of hours, growling every time she tried to leave. We rehomed here with an older couple, used to bigger breeds, who had no problems with her for the rest of her life.
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But to do something about them would be political suicide. A bit like banning cigarettes, recognised as being so harmful it makes sense just to make them illegal but the consequences of doing so are unthinkable.
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It never does
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Just for giggles, catch the average garden centre staff member and ask what rootstock a particular tree is on? Odds are a similar reaction as asking for an explanation of the theory of relativity.
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Gary Prentice commented on LandmarkTrading's blog entry in Member Blogs
Isn't it a bit simplistic to categorise a dead tree as 'needs removing'? Sorry for being pedantic. -
I haven't torn my 15-20 yr old one yet - but then again I try to avoid clambering through hawthorn generally. As a soft fabric it may be perceived as delicate, I don't think it is. The advertising used to be that it remainder waterfast even when pieced because there's no coating or membrane (like goretex), it just works different. Yes, you can tear it on barbed wire or, at a real push thorns, but IME it holds up well to normal use and remains waterproof for years. Everyone has stuff they prefer, what I like about my paramo gear is that it just does what its designed for. It just works, keeps you dry and eventually you take it for granted that here's a jacket/trousers that does what it says on the tin. I've been a convert for many years.
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just don't wear a non breathable cotton t-shirt underneath. Link with a breathable (paramo) type shirt and you're good to go. Honestly Mark, I've been on winter courses in Glen Coe where it rained all day, the instructors wore brand new Gortex jackets. At the end of the day, back at the hotel, they took their jackets and under-layers and headed off to the drying room, I took my Paramo off, shook it and headed straight for the bar
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I'm not sure on the exact definitions, but Isn't pleaching basically a hedge on a bare stem? As opposed to espalier and fans that are usually fruits, often grown on a wall although they can be trained on a framework but with very little 'breastwork - growth out of line with the plane of the fan itself. The RHS used to do a little paperback guide on fruit trees, informing on how to prune right from planting to initially train the direction of growth to create the framework and then to bear fruit - dependent on species. This was aone of a number of guides which, I think was almagamated into this edition - https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/The-Royal-Horticultural-Society-Pruning-and-Training-by-Christopher-Brickell-David-Joyce-Hardback/87512085?iid=301936761055&chn=ps
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Have a look through David Humphries threads, there’s lots showing the read outs and differences between sound and fungal compromised wood. Great tool, but v expensive
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I think he probably run out of confidence in both the tree and climbing higher, so ‘this’ll work!’ Acknowledging chancing your luck is insightful, calling it unlucky or anything else isn’t.
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Just open all the windows when it gets too warm, that’s what my missus does!
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Christ ya sound like my missus - always finding fault 7 X 25L = 175Kg
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The other seven drums were good though
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What guy?
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Probably already said, but get a Paramo. Mines probably 20 yr old, still waterproof and in good nick. Wore it for mountain rescue work, odd bit of call out climbing work and walking/climbing in Scandinavia (winter) Scotland, Lakes and Wales. If this one wears out I’d buy another.
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Noticed that with my higher fluid intake, I’m getting cramp in my fingers, toes and feet all the time. Not on the tools so not sweating excessively either. I do crave ready salted crisps though. I think marathon runners have problems with lots of water upsetting the sodium balances in the body.
