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Below last green branch will definitely kill them, they don’t grow back from suckers. Cut loads down over the years and if you leave a good bit of green they usually survive. The “good bit of green” is more important than height. Have cut 90’ trees down to a few feet and they survived, have reduced 30’ trees by half and some died.

Most green waste I’ve seen is full of plastic, glass and foil. Check the quality before accepting it.

They won’t fall over, they won’t grow back on the neighbours side either and will look a right mess (in my opinion). Won’t harm the trees particularly. i think strictly speaking the neighbour has a right to cut off overhang but has to offer the cuttings back to the owner. Don’t think the owner has to accept though.

I asked my missus how she was going to cope when baked beans weren’t available. ”Don’t be stupid, they are made in Britain” FFS!

Wooly aphid is causing that

Best practice for what? It’s not best for the hedge in my opinion, you certainly wouldn’t be only cutting your garden hedge every three years because it would be a right mess. It might be best practice for berry production but that’s not what they are there for, a point often forgotten or ignored. Birds living and feeding in them is purely a byproduct, it is not their purpose. Historically they would have been cut annually by hand and no higher than a mans chest. At least modern machinery allows them to be higher, whether this is good or bad is debatable. The picture posted is a pic of a badly maintained hedge, bad maintenance has likely always occurred to some degree. The purpose of the hedge is to define boundaries and maybe to keep stock in too. The hedge pictured is still defining the boundary, wire is a lot cheaper and quicker than hedgelaying.

Not drawing the cold air in through draughts like an open fire is the biggest thing imo. Other than that all the things you said

There are some that are willing to pay but most would look at it from the “no way will I get £200 worth of apples off it” point of view. Paying someone to prune your fruit trees each year will cost a lot more than the value of fruit they get in return.

Which of what I wrote is incorrect? Regarding being dependant on bees, I think that is massively overhyped. I think pollination is far more dependant on insects other than bees. Put a net over a strawberry plant to with mesh that excludes bees but allows smaller insects in and see if you get fruit or not. I do everything I can to look after bees but I do think they get more credit than they deserve. Hoverflies are probably better but not so sexy. In the same way as a nest of wasps will clear more grubs than a pair of feeding birds.

You don’t get honey bees in orchards because there isn’t enough nectar in apple blossom for it to be worth their while. Grease bands are for winter moth, not codling and tar oil winter wash is banned now to my knowledge. Codling control in a modern orchard is likely to rely heavily on pheromones rather than insecticides. The latest method is to “blanket” the orchard with pheromones to prevent mating. No mating means no baby codling boring into the fruit. If you only have one or two trees a pheromone trap from a garden centre is probably sufficient control. Better than pulling all the flowers off anyway. The only neonic that is regularly used in orchards is Calypso, that is said not to harm bees and unusually for an insecticide it can be used while trees are in blossom (doesn’t mean I would).

A granddaughter

Do the test so you can buy poison or just buy it off eBay and Amazon instead. Same goes for many other high strength ag chems.

I'd much sooner go to work than pointlessly run about in the rain. In fact, if I ever went pointlessly running around in the rain I'd be very concerned for my sanity. Besides that, I won't be doing much on the bank holidays but otherwise happily out working.

I have had work experience kids with me and I thought they were not supposed to get paid. I did pay them though and it was according to how useless they were. Some jobs they can just about manage but even simple tasks seemed quite alien to them. As an example I had to go and make a phone call and thought to keep the lad occupied for a short while I would get him to just sweep out the shed we were working in. A simple job, hardly exciting but did need doing and if he didn't do it I would have done it myself. It was immediately obvious that he had never driven a broom before and wasn't able to figure it out. What sort of upbringing have these kids had where they don't even know how to sweep the floor? The purpose is to give them experience of a working environment, they also need to experience being paid what they are worth or what you have to do to get a financial reward. Seems too many expect a lot of money for doing feck all these days.

Burn it

My local skip firm says you can't put it in the skip.

I don't usually find this much weirdness until a long way down the comments on a random Youtube thread. I'm surprised how far I got before asking WTF am I reading this for and how did I get here.

The time to get out is when you can't make a profit from it. It doesn't matter what price you buy it in at as long as you can sell it for a profit after costs. Same with anything.

I'd ask Atkinson Walker. Had good service off them at a good price before now. Might not have exactly what you want on their website but pretty sure if you ring them they will have. http://www.awsaws.uk/index.html

Plums seem very prone to Silverleaf to me and that just loves to get into wounds like that.

Can't cook or heat water without lighting mine so yes it has been lit. Lit the one in the living room too this weekend. The deal here is that I will always make sure there are plenty of dry logs and the missus can have the heating on as much as she wants (she carts the logs )

This. At least work out the cost of each. As for roof, it definitely needs to slope as the flat roof of a container allows water to collect which eventually causes a rust hole.

There are some things you are better off just not knowing.

Put it this way, it is banned by airlines.

I've heard them droning about my yard this week but couldn't see what it was. Have never seen a hornet in this country in my life.