Peasgood
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I've had apple orchards all my life and have never seen a rat damaged apple tree. Once had a colony of rats in one of the orchards, much to my surprise, but no damage. As said, voles are most likely and especially on young trees.Also as said, keeping the vegetation away from the base of the trunk cures that but not with a strimmer. Rabbits and hares will make a real mess of your trees, I have acres of orchards and every tree has a wire netting guard on the trunk to protect against rabbits.
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I think the fella that came up with the idea in the first place is now very much against them. It's the sort of thing you might expect a non driver to come up with, hard shoulders are very scary places but infinitely more scary if there isn't one.
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I doubt you would but I would think you'd be constantly thinking about it. My Ex's grandfather was a captain in the navy protecting the Atlantic convoy, it sounded pretty grim. If a ship went down you had to keep going and just watch the survivors float by knowing they hadn't a chance. I would think those images would be in your head forever more.
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Scared to death of what might happen now it is at the bottom of the sea. Imagine being a sailor on a ship with such a cargo in the Atlantic with U-boats prowling. A different breed.
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Fiskars X27 is the one that folk always recommend. Felling axes aren't much good at splitting even compared to a B&Q maul. Oxdale splitters are very much worth their money if going on a tractor. Personally I would never go back to an axe or maul having used an Oxdale but if funds are too tight then I guess you have to.
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apple Pruning advice for young Apple trees
Peasgood replied to Myatix's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Nearly every professional apple grower I have ever asked what their favourite tasting apple was has said Spartan. I accept it may not be everyone's favourite but I am surprised to hear you don't like the taste. A fully ripe Spartan fresh off the tree is unbeatable for flavour in my opinion. They don't taste as nice after being stored though. As for storage qualities, I would class them as OK but not brilliant, for juice I struggle with them. They go soft too quick which makes them difficult to squash and no matter when you squash them they do not yield very well. Having said that, this season I pressed some in late January which had been picked October and stored in an opensided barn. They were surprisingly good quality, hardly any rots and yielded reasonably well too. -
apple Pruning advice for young Apple trees
Peasgood replied to Myatix's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
You would struggle to get uncontrolled regrowth on an m9 no matter what you did to it. If you are thinking of planting a few different varieties pick ones with a range of ripening dates. Something like Discovery for early fruit, Spartan maincrop and then maybe Melrose as a much later variety. -
I season 3 years + as a stem, then split in summer and burn in winter after a bit more seasoning. Works well for me and they do usually need that extra seasoning once split, not so much if there has been a long dry spell like we used to get in the olden days.
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Surely you know what a bell sounds like though?
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apple Pruning advice for young Apple trees
Peasgood replied to Myatix's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I am going to try and be kind but have to say you shouldn't prune them first and then ask how to prune them. First rule is don't cut branches in half like that, either leave it alone or cut it off completely. They would have been better left alone. The two lower branches growing horizontally should be cut right off. Leave the rest to see what happens this year but you have cut the branches you wanted to grow into a nice shaped tree in half. They were your framework. Top tip with Bramley is to let them grow, the weight of fruit brings down branches like you would never think possible. -
Are you sure you don't mean 2000 grit? 200 is going to make a mess of it.
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The purpose of the pleacher (the laid bit) is to form a living stockproof barrier that feeds the stool while the new growth gets going. Most regrowth should come from the stool, 70-80%. The pleacher will eventually die off as the strong growth from the stool crowds it out, that strong growth will also naturally thin itself. In 20-30 years it is then ready to lay again. If you don't cut the pleachers low, the next time you come to do it the growth you want as your new pleacher will be too high. In your pic they should have been cut a bit lower and the gaps planted up. It looks to me that the horse(s) have been allowed to eat off some of the new growth from the stools which is not a good thing.
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Cuts are a bit high and should have kept the horses away from it better. No expert mind.
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I have always felt the above to be true and the major thing that makes it be so in my mind is the sawbench blade stays in the same place. It can only hurt you if you put your hand in there. Watch: Man's miraculous near-miss from runaway saw blade WWW.BBC.CO.UK Seconds after entering a shop in the US, the blade from a nearby construction site becomes lodged in the door.
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From experience they will probably survive but never thrive.
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It's a stupid idea. Registering domestic poultry won't make any difference to anything, just more busy-body interfering in peoples private affairs. Got to register your duck while countless wild ones wander about willy nilly, you can't get much more friggin ridiculous.
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I will think about complying if all dog owners do similar.
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I deliberately season it for at least three years. If you leave it that long the bark starts to peel off and you don't get all that sticky resin all over everything. Doesn't effect the way it burns IMO, if anything it improves it. My supply is practically unlimited so not bothered how fast it burns. The deal is I will make sure there are always dry logs, missus can burn as many as she wants.
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Very nearly all I burn and has been for decades. You do need an airflow in your burner, sounds like you may have shut the fire down too much if they are black. Very little ash compared to most. If you are not getting the heat out of them are they stored under cover /out of the rain. I do burn other logs occasionally and would never say the leylandii wasn't as hot, in fact much more likely to say the opposite.
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The 36v rear handle will cut about as much as the average petrol saw will cut on one fill in my experience. That is a good measure of how much of your boot you can/can't fill.
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You don't want to which is why I mentioned it. Those packs don't look particularly sealed and if stacked in a damp UK garage you would just have a very big pile of sawdust by next winter.
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Same here but a degree colder. Are your forecasts reliable then because if that forecast was for here it would be raining on Monday and nonstop for a fortnight. I'm not confident they can tell us what did happen with any accuracy never mind what will happen.
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They also double in size if they get damp and explode all the packaging
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What are the edges of a Brades or Elwell like quality wise? Spent many a day splitting logs with an old felling axe as that was all we ever had. A splitting maul was an absolute revelation. Then when I became rich and famous (by that I mean I actually had some money in my pocket for once) I bought a Gransfors Bruk axe. I cut my finger on that and was absolutely amazed that you could even do that with an axe. The edge on that thing is something else. Have I just been used to what would have been the equivalent of a B&Q axe back then and the Brades and Elwell would have been as sharp as a Grunsfors?
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2 years ago I'd just lost my Mum to cancer, 1 year ago I was in the lowest depths of 6 weeks continuous chemo and radiotherapy treatment, 6 months ago I lost my cousin to prostate cancer. I sniggered at the joke because that is what it was, a joke. Pretty confident my cousin would have laughed out loud tbh. I've seen a few comments on the internet gloating at the news (elsewhere, not here) and that is a bit sick but that isn't what this was. "Humour is the best medicine" comes to mind.
