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Peasgood

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  1. 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.
  2. How can they claim it is carbon neutral? Complete and utter bull!
  3. My advice is to treat it as you would an ornamental!
  4. Must have been in the 80's or I wouldn't remember it. 👍
  5. 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)
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. I've noticed I get them much less since my eyesight got worse.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.)
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Make your own, it isn't difficult and only need an old oil barrel or two. Once you have made some and worked out how long it took you will soon figure out why it's hard to find any for sale. Shouldn't stop you from making your own though, loads of videos on Youtube to show you how.
  18. I would suggest she invested in an Austrian scythe with an aluminium handle, The wooden hand holds are adjustable and the whole thing is much lighter than the wooden ones. I have one and on many occasions it is far nicer to use than a strimmer and does just as good a job. LONG FOLDING SCYTHE LIGHTWEIGHT STRONG 140CM HANDLE 60CM BLADE GRASS WEED CUTTER WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for LONG FOLDING SCYTHE LIGHTWEIGHT STRONG 140CM HANDLE 60CM BLADE GRASS WEED CUTTER at the best... Cheaper than a new handle and better too.
  19. You should also have their address and their NI number.
  20. https://www.forum4farming.com/forum/index.php?forums/ is a mainly Irish farming forum, or it was. I haven't been on there for a long time so can't comment on it at all other than to say a fair few use both forums. There was an offshoot but I really can't remember what it is called, again I haven't used it for years and it may no longer exist. Haven't heard that it doesn't but can't find it through Google
  21. I don't think the joke would work if you aimed it at muslims tbh. If you find it offensive for some mental health reasons just scroll by, it's easy. In fact I reckon Jesus would laugh at that one.
  22. Mine? I don't have one, only a debit card.
  23. Are you sure that credit card protection covers business transactions because I was sure it didn't, just domestic/personal stuff.
  24. Until this episode I haven't been to the dctors for decades so don't have prescriptions anyway and hopefully I will be back to that. I do have a free drugs card though that doesn't expire until 2027. Fingers crossed I won't use it anyway.
  25. It paid off. Had my MRI results today and tumours have gone and no sign of cancer anywhere else in my body. Told me it is still early days but 85% of people in early remission as I am remain cancer free at 5 year mark. As good a result as possible, best get on with summat now.

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