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Willow bark aphid and wasps
Peasgood replied to Dan Maynard's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Spraying the tree with an insecticide is an option but I would chop it down. -
You were ripped off then as it is generally 110p or below at the moment. Does seem to be creeping back up again and my own opinion is it will stay at or above current prices for a long time now, spring at least.
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No need to remove infected leaves unless you are cutting the hedge anyway. The worst of the infected leaves won't recover but the plants won't die from it. You do not need a specialist but if you want to have somebody do the job for you a gardener should be able to. You can just go to the garden centre and buy a squirty bottle of fungicidal treatment and do it yourself.
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Looks like mildew to me. Potassium bicarb is a reasonably friendly remedy that is worth a try, I use 15kg in 1100 litres if you want to work out concentration levels.
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Already happening here. My orchards lost a lot of leaves in places from drought, since the rain a few weeks back they are back in new growth and actually flowering on some. Not good, it will be at the expense of next years blossom.
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Problems and issues this industry faces and how to deal with them.
Peasgood replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
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You can buy plum maggot traps from garden centres and the like. They would probably solve the problem if you only have one tree. They use pheromones to lure the males onto sticky traps, in turn they can't mate so no eggs get laid. Commercially they are used as an indicator as to when to apply chemicals to control them.
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Spectacular moonrise the night before. Sturgeon moon apparently whatever that means, didn't look tartan or anything.
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Apples in a woodland setting.
Peasgood replied to coppice cutter's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I have 3ha of orchards and the birds are being a pain. The dry weather makes it worse as they search out food and moisture. -
Big solar panel on the roof, small leisure battery if you are short of space and a charge controller plus small inverter. I have the above on my shed and run a surprising amount off it including a battery charger.
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I own similar and I had to pay nearly £1k for hedgecutting this year and that put them on £40/hour. That isn't expensive for a man and hedge cutter, they did a good job and weren't hanging about. Doesn't take many years before it makes sense to get your own if you have the time to do it, you don't have to do it all at once but theoretically you can't do it before beginning of Sept or after end of Feb. I have a International 674 which is big enough for a hedge cutter and any other "farm" work, £3k should buy you a very good one but plenty of other similar things out there. A little old Fergie 35 will do any topping and stuff easily and are much nicer to drive IMO, I use mine a lot.
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"Just a minute sir, your vehicle smells of drugs" is the real worry.
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Chances of you even seeing a police car are slim, being stopped by one is very unlikely.
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Apricot tree damaging cottage.
Peasgood replied to robert70's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Yeah, I think the roots from that tree are all that is holding your house up right now. -
These are my courgettes from yesterday, the marrows are underneath. I think I have overdone them but it has worked out well, due to the drought my geese have no grass. They do have marrows. Also have a massive surplus of kale which they prefer. So rather than preserving them I am using them to preserve my geese. Made about 40 jars of strawberry jam plus raspberry jam and my favourite is gooseberry jam. Also made strawberry, raspberry, gooseberry and rhubarb gins and vodkas, they are my favourite "preserves". Very quick to make and none of this keep it until after Christmas malarkey you get with sloe gin, they are more than ready in just a fortnight.
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Too late!
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Still cost £165 to fill my Vivaro and with a jerry can of petrol there wasn't much left of £200.
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Local station 186p/litre
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If you watch again you can see the rock spike going down when he hits it, the next hit it just bounces because it is on the pipe then the hit that shatters the pipe. On the original you can hear it ring as it bounces on the pipe. Scary stuff and that rock spike doesn't look deep to me. (he is knocking a rock spike in prior to putting the post in) Bloody lucky it didn't ignite.
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I wonder why the gloves were with them. :D Actually remember those mags from back in the day, mid to late 80's.
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Sorry, you quoted Joe and he was talking about a Shogun. 👍
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That was the Terrano
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SWB Terrano. A bit thin on the ground these days but you can't break them, if you do somehow manage to break it they are cheap and easy to fix. Think they can tow 2.6 but may well be 2.8 tons.
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June drop hasn't happened yet and there are quite a few of those apples going to fall off in the next few weeks. I'm sure there will be plenty left though. Last year was a bumper apple crop for me, probably the best I will ever get. This year isn't bumper and some have hardly fruited as they didn't flower much. Some are laden, my Discovery look exceptional so far.
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which smokeless coal is best
Peasgood replied to les127's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
And your boiler if you have one.
