Peasgood
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Only ever seen one mink and in similar circumstances to the above. The one in my stream was far less timid though, it struck me to have no fear whatsoever and if it had decided to walk up to me and try to eat me I think it would have given it a go. Not quite true or at least not worded correctly. It is the General license and rabbits are not game, hares, grouse, ptarmigan, grouse and pheasants etc are game.
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Not very up on my plums tbh. It does look very much like silverleaf on those leaves. There seems to be an extra amount of plum moth about this year. Those plums look like they have been damaged by moth/maggot and allowed entry to rot. Wouldn't like to give a full answer without having your plums in my hand tbh.
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Befriend a Romanian ang get them to show you how to make pálinka. I did it years ago and it is surprisingly easy, I stopped before I drank myself to death.
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We had a field with loads of pignuts in it, too many of them aren't good for you. As a side note, they were in an old water meadow that was fairly remote, wouldn't have been ploughed by tractor before but had been drained with horseshoe drains. We ploughed it and grew strawberries and cabbage in it before reverting it back to grass. I found a load of worked flints in a small area, seemed pretty obvious that someone had once sat down and knapped a flint there. Maybe they were keen on pignuts and why they were in that area. It is back to being remote and undisturbed again, I doubt half a dozen folk go in that field a year.
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I should think the price fell off a cliff on Thursday as I sent some in on Friday.
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Well if you start off with a 5t carbon cost and then by using a carbon neutral fuel you keep adding or subtracting lots of nothings into the equation it still make it a 5t cost. Have to admit your reckoning is pretty much how these people think though, plant a couple of saplings that will be dead within 6 months and it makes flying around the world OK again. I am sticking with my complete and utter bull point of view with an added dash of absolute bollox on top.
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In my experience you won't need to do anything. Have had several trees hit over the years, some had a strip of bark peeled off and are still standing decades later with no obvious ill effects. Others were blown to complete smithereens! Would have loved to have seen it happen but would probably have pooed my pants too. Fully mature specimen parkland oak with about 15' of trunk left standing and the rest spread over a 200yard diameter area and reduced to splinters. Absolutely mind blowing.
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Same. Splits nice, burns hot, no ash hardly and I have tons of the stuff. If there is a downside it is the sticky sap but I have enough that I can season outside for a few years by which time the sticky has gone.
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How can they claim it is carbon neutral? Complete and utter bull!
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My advice is to treat it as you would an ornamental!
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Apple tree bark turning orange and coming off
Peasgood replied to Leaf17's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Must have been in the 80's or I wouldn't remember it. 👍 -
Apple tree bark turning orange and coming off
Peasgood replied to Leaf17's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Could try inarching. Google it. Personally I am not convinced it is collar rot and more just the tree getting old. Either way inarching is the only thing I can think of unless you have a tin of mercury based wound treatment laying around. ( Only thing I ever knew to work) -
Nothing ventured nothing gained but unless the house is being demolished I wouldn't want anything to do with digging a big tree out from near it.
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I had a thin layer of planings spread on my new yard over MOT/crusher run. It was spread with a 13 ton 360 on metal tracks and tracked as he went to the pile and back. I said I would go over it with my ballast roll to tidy it off but they said there was no need. I still did it but I was wasting my time, it made no difference. My yard wasn't rolled other than that and it is just as good 2 years later. No issue with run off either but the surrounding land is drained and free draining anyway.
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I've noticed I get them much less since my eyesight got worse.
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You can summer prune, I tend not to as I am too busy elsewhere. On the op's tree it wouldn't harm to pull off some of the watershoots now (which I do usually make time for). My comment was referring to the amount of new growth sprouting from poor pruning in the recent past. If you reduce a young branch it causes loads of new shoots sprout off it. My main rule is if you are going to cut it off, cut it off completely. The tree is in a garden so it doesn't really matter, just make it look pretty. I tend to see these things from a commercial growers point of view. I also see most garden apple trees with the above mistake and then the client says there crop is poor.
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Best one I have been to was when The Pinkies played Writtle Ag college in Essex. Thoroughly enjoyed that one, don't really know why but alcohol level hitting that sweet spot probably played a big part. Being aware of just how feckin brilliant it was to be young free and single was also a major factor, often wish \i could go back there again. Being old, expensive and shacked up is quite nice too of course.
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Are they in the flour? I get them sometimes, just give everything a wipe with dilute Miltons or similar. Put flour in the freezer to kill them. Yes I know most will throw the flour away but no reason to, you can't taste them and if you could they probably taste of flour anyway.
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Since this post I have sold my draughty 6 bed farmhouse bought and did up what is now not draughty 3 bed farmhouse. House was completely gutted and I did buy another La Nordica which does heating, DHW and cooking. Also have oil plumbed into the same system but that doesn't get a lot of use, just use it for hot water when we don't want to light the fire in summer. When the fire is lit we do pretty much all the cooking on it or in it and the house is roasting with endless hot water. Very pleased with it and will do the same again next time I move (planning on doing out a bungalow to see me into old age if I make it.)
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If they had someone who knew how to prune an apple tree in the winter they would even get a good crop off it (not what everyone wants either) Other than that, as above just tidy the broken bit up.
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Been to my sons place today which is only about 8 miles away. He has 3 wasps nests, one he didn't know about until I poited it out. One nest has tiny little wasps, loads smaller than normal, one nest is just about normal sized wasps and one is giant wasps. I don't know if they are hornets because you ever get them around here but they are all a bit bigger than the Queen wasps you see in autumn/winter hibernating.
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I was thinking to myself earlier how there are hardly any wasps about this year.I am an apple grower but can't remember seeing a single one at my place so far.
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Are there any Charcoal makers in Suffolk Norfolk or Essex area
Peasgood replied to twistedhicap's topic in General chat
Factoring in the cost of a Dragon makes it difficult for me to see when the payback would be. You'd need some pretty serious customers, it surprises me but there are folk out there very prepared to pay the premium for local good charcoal. My trade has always been fruit and veg farming and prices there are dictated by the supermarkets wherever you sell. People in general are reluctant to pay top dollar for good local produce when they can get a lesser product from the supermarkets for bugger all, same must apply to charcoal. Best of luck with it though, they are a good looking setup for the smaller scale producer.
