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Bury them as hügelkultur or buy a bigger stove
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(First post) Planting a native woodland, East Sussex
spandit replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Turns out at least one of the ash seedlings was a sycamore, I think. Anyway, one of the beeches has finally made a start: I also noticed that the medlar we planted this winter is producing fruit, which we weren't expecting for another few years... -
Abrasive waterjet can be even better as no heat distortion.
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Burning... I've been in better insulated amphitheatres...
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That's about a week's worth for us...
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I've smelt that in various woods, some sort of infection. Once dried out it stops smelling and seems to burn OK
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Not really sure what balsam smells like, though!
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If you're still looking, I reckon this would be spare, it's oak, in East Sussex:
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Funnily enough, my FAC (which has .22LR, .17HMR & .223 on it) doesn't distinguish between calibres when it mentions shooting foxes. I know several people who shoot foxes with a .22LR and they're perfectly lethal enough
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Was wondering how it had got there but then saw this behind it:
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Geniuses (genii?) all of you. It's quite far from the main house so I can let it get big
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Any clues? Leaves are quite shiny & about 5cm long
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On OS maps, blocks of woodland often have names. Now that I've planted my own woodland, how do I go about registering a chosen name for it, so my name will live on after I'm gone?
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You can offset the value of standing timber in woodland for IHT purposes, though http://www.voa.gov.uk/corporate/Publications/Manuals/InheritanceTaxManual/sections/j-section_10/iht-man-s10-pt1.html
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(First post) Planting a native woodland, East Sussex
spandit replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Was given some ash seedlings by a neighbour so have bunged those into the mix too. It is lovely seeing the little dead looking twigs that were delivered turning into live plants but I know what you mean, they're not rapid. That said, I cut a different neighbour's osier willow down to a stump. By the end of the year, it was 12 feet tall and an inch thickness on some of the larger stems. I've planted a load of the twigs here and they're already looking good in places. Got a power company coming next week to trim some trees which should result in some willow mulch -
(First post) Planting a native woodland, East Sussex
spandit replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
At last, oak is beginning to come alive... Alder is doing better too: -
Don't know but subscribing to thread to find out
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If you look carefully at the end of an ash log, it looks like bundles of little straws in alternate rings - quite distinctive
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I planted my hedging in spirals
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Does juniper grow well in the UK? A high proportion of my newly planted woodland is alder, mainly because the site is so wet but also after reading on here in different threads how good it is to burn
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(First post) Planting a native woodland, East Sussex
spandit replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Damn the Woodland Trust - thought they'd forgotten to invoice me but it arrived today.... grrr... -
Blimey, I was at their factory yesterday as luck would have it (only for a nosy, I was actually visiting next door)
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We got a duck-pond, where do I claim the expenses?
spandit replied to difflock's topic in General chat
Looking forward to the pics. You need an island to claim expenses Want to dig a pond myself, got plenty of water -
It was a bit of a charity favour, to be honest. They're good lads but not terribly efficient. A friend of mine, who did it for free, planted more than they had done in two days in about 3 hours!
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(First post) Planting a native woodland, East Sussex
spandit replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Thank you for making me look - wouldn't've found the field maple otherwise
