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Leylandii plantation - cost effective way to remove?
Peasgood replied to Zeissman's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
There's not an enormous amount of brash in a plantation as it's just the tops. If you have somewhere to put it, stack it and leave it 3 years. It makes good firewood but takes 3 years for the sap to go away. Me and mine burn well over 50 tons a year running our houses. -
Pull them up and burn them! Very few returns this year in my fields as a result. Never mind this "all nature is equal" rubbish. Cholera, rats and malaria are nature, I don't want them in my fields either.
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I think you are just as able to lose your fingers on the new ones. It is all about taking your time imo.
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Leylandii plantation - cost effective way to remove?
Peasgood replied to Zeissman's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
We have a few similar plantations of our own. We cut some down, pointed the ends and used them as stakes to support our raspberry crop (about an acre). The posts lasted a lot longer than the raspberry plantation! No treatment whatsoever and knocked in with a post knocker. They have lasted longer than bought in tanalised stakes would of. -
How can he prove it was you that cut them down and if he is moving what do you care? You acted in good faith, you shouldn't worry about it.
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The stove is made out of a stainless biscuit tin. http://www.alloutdoor.co.uk/stoves-cooking/tableware-cutlery/gsi-outdoors-glacier-stainless-percolator.htm
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Anyone at 70 has my respect for being fit and able to go out with a knapsack. On the other hand you have had plenty of time to learn how to calibrate the thing and know the correct operating procedures required to pass the test. Kind of illustrates why the test is there imo. Nowt personal of course.
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That gets a like from me.. An earlier poster used the phrase "community minded". In my fields that means the entire local community has decided that my fields are a convenient place to take their dogs for a crap. I have public footpaths across my land. People are entitled to use them as much as they like, I accept that. People are allowed to use them to exercise their dogs. It isn't what they are there for originally but I guess I have to accept that. In return do people accept they have to stick to the footpaths and not just wander anywhere they like, do they accept their dogs should be on leads rather than just running everywhere through my crops? Do they buggery!
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How can the ley line have killed the trees when a great many ley lines are actually marked out by trees? A fantastic example of this is near the Worcester junction on the M5. I think it is "Worcester North". That tree on that tump just has to be marking a ley line, knew it the first time I saw it many decades ago and that was before the M5 was there. No doubt that bush mentioned earlier in Salisbury or wherever it was is another example. I don't know that one.
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I can probably count on three fingers the number of wasps I've seen lately.
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If you go and buy some bug spray make sure you look at what the active ingredient is. Most of the supermarket and garden centre squirty bottle sprays are based on thiachloprid. This doesn't work on wooly aphid. Meths as said is as good as anything, paint it on.
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Roll over bar vintage tractor Ferguson Fordson TE 20 FE MF 35 Dexta ford 2000 | eBay Might be a bit far but it does fit a T20
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It is a diff lock as said. It locks both rear wheels together so they both turn the same speed. Helps you get out of mud when one wheel is slipping. Often gets stuck down when used. Once out of mud you need to back up a little to help the cogs come apart again. Very difficult to turn corners when it is engaged so only use it if going in a straight line.
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I saw a small one the other day so they are still out there somewhere. As said earlier, it isn't until later on they become more abundant in my experience. Usually once the summer fruits are ripe, late raspberries and early apples seem to be their "time".
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Just been told David Beckham was around these parts yesterday
Peasgood replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
You misheard. It wasn't Beckham it was Packham. He was out badger spotting. -
My uderstanding of such things: Leaves are normally green, this is due to the chlorophyll within them. Sometimes a bud can mutate naturally and sometimes that mutation can result in a "sport" that contains no chlorophyll and therefore appears white. Certain sports with this characteristic are propagated and grafted onto "normal" rootstocks to create an ornamental tree. A good example of this could be the variegated sycamores/maples. Variegated leaves are only partially chlorophyll free, hence the stripiness of them. Anything completely white will never survive as a single tree because of the plants need to use chlorophyll to photosynthesise. They can survive on plants that also have normal green leaves on other branches and draw off their energy resources. These sports are often produced as a result of damage of some kind, usually physical.
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I'm with you on that.
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At least we are together in being alone. Suits me too.
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Is there an extra cliquey clique for those that won summat in the raffle? If I am in a clique could someone tell me who else is, or is my clique the so cliquey clique that there's only me in it?
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Not had any success with Dursban on them, I think ours are resistant to it. A lot of things are. I would use Decis or similar instead but that will kill all your natural predators as well. In the orchard I just accept it is there, any chemical good enough to kill them would do me much more harm than good by wiping out natural predators. My new trees are a different story though. I haven't seen any fresh curling this week so I am hoping I got them.
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Apple leaf midge. It curls the leaf in the opposite direction to rosy apple aphid. Got loads of it in my orchards where it doesn't bother me and it is reducing a lot as natural predators are building up. Lot more of a problem in nursery stock areas where they can have a significant effect on a young tree. Sprayed mine this week. Apple leaf midge (Dasineura mali (Keiffer)) - Apple Best Practice Guide
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Looking out north tonight you may see the northern lights
Peasgood replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
Good luck with that one, it's only dark for about 10 minutes at the moment. -
Spots are Cox Spot, curls are rosy aphid. Uncurl the leaves and you will find aphids in there. trat with bug spray of some sort. Cox Spot has no treatment as such but a good foliar feed is in order. The leaves often fall off if it gets bad enough.
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I think it is quite possibly very normal behaviour for Ash, only difference is people are paying much more attention due to chalara being in the news.
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Last month to process logs to sell this coming Winter ?
Peasgood replied to arboriculturist's topic in Firewood forum
I can't get apple to season in 9 months. It burns OK but it still hisses after 2 years. (cut and stored under cover etc)
