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  1. spandit
    No problem. Picked them up in the Dominican Republic, might try to germinate them myself
  2. spandit
    I have some seeds if you're interested
  3. spandit
    Royal poinciana?
  4. spandit
    Is Heathfield too far?
  5. spandit
    How many horsepower?
  6. spandit
    Had a sprig of mistletoe left over from Christmas. Remarkably, it was still green and the berries were moist & sticky. I've smeared them onto some apple trees so fingers crossed we'll have a supply in a few years! :fc:
  7. spandit
    It was covered in brown leaves during the summer when every other tree was in full leaf. That said, it was green inside when I cut it down so might have been alive. It might sprout from the cambium but we wanted to put a trampoline there anyway so it had to go The 1,500+ trees I've planted in it's place have assuaged my conscience.
  8. spandit
    It was nearly a week! It was lovely to wake up this morning not having to plant trees. Put the 3 remaining shrubs in and corrected a few misplanted trees
  9. spandit
    No sycamore in my plantings, only field maple
  10. spandit
    I just wondered if it might get drawn up into the roots
  11. spandit
    I've tried but not sure whether it worked. Which trees are best?
  12. spandit
    Although I'm not entirely up to speed with the hilarious running joke, could someone please confirm whether the tree was indeed a beech as first stated, or a hornbeam?
  13. spandit
    I've got some topsoil for sale if anyone is interested. Just have to dig it out from my ditches. I can also offer house painting activity weekends for very reasonable prices
  14. spandit
    Does spraying not risk damaging the tree itself?
  15. spandit
    Well, with 22 stakes and 18 tubes left over, plus about 4 shrubs (which I'll shove in the hedgerow tomorrow), it's done! May not be the biggest forest, or the best planted, but it's mine and now I can just watch it grow...* Last one: * once we've gone round and tucked all the weed membrane in... Shouldn't take long
  16. spandit
    Just looked on the Tubex site and you're right, they are that much each.
  17. spandit
    Putting the oaks into the tubes is a pain too... Try threading it through weed membrane too!
  18. spandit
    Did the number of stakes & tubes match? Seem to have more tubes left over than stakes at the moment. Fortunately, I have some of my own spare spirals as ran out with shrubs to spare
  19. spandit
    Good to know. I'll look into replacing them. Out of interest, when you buy "one" Tubex tree guard (for about £1.20), do you get a single tube or a nest of 5?
  20. spandit
    They were diddy but we used full guards - to cram them into spirals would be a bit difficult as they were quite bushy
  21. spandit
    No. Scots pine but no fir
  22. spandit

    Free poplar

    spandit replied to Fern's topic in Firewood forum

    Can you post it to East Sussex?
  23. spandit
    A lot of the whips looked pretty similar and not having the same numbers of each, I just mixed them up and grabbed at random. Ironically, I can now identify whips a lot easier after planting hundreds of the buggers
  24. spandit
    Tried to plant random but it ends up in straight lines anyway. I have planted the mix more or less at random, though. It's not really enough wood to worry about extraction too much - at widest point it's probably about 50m thick.
  25. spandit
    I'm not going to uproot them all now! They're at 2m spacing and I'm hoping it will encourage them to grow straight. A lot of the other bits are spaced more but we were running out of space. Light at the end of the tunnel now - reckon another 200 and we'll be nearly there...

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