Stere

I posted this before a strimmer with a rotarty engine. Selling them in japan

Gonna be used on flying cars apparently! 🙂

https://www.kaaz.co.jp/en/Spec/VT740(W)KZ-CK1.pdf

purple monster

I use my green waste bin as a water butt

Alot better than most water buts as top is wide enough you you can dip a watering can in, unlike most others that are too narrow.

Also thoose cheap plastic taps at the  bottom of bought butts are totally useless imo as they  takes ages to fill a watering can and break easy as the plastic gets brittle.

Having say 10 or 20 bins daisy chained etc  would be even more useful to store more water.

Reuse is more eco than recycle

From reading up on the internet limewash seems traditional.

Also seems some german companies make special paints

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Etisso-Alsam-Trunk-Protector-White/dp/B07B26DCPF

https://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Paste-Against-Frost-Damage/dp/B004QBBKYY

Lac balsam one  mentions  it will last 5 yrs

Old thread on sun scald

In the USA they sell a choice of different winter and summer bar oils etc

Or this place  has 5  different viscosities.

Magnolia i think.

Has canker might of ring barked a branch hence blossom falling off etc.

If possible prune out all affected parts

https://www.rhs.org.uk/disease/apple-canker

School used to have a nit nurse who did all the infected kids in one go with a special comb & some foul smelling stuff

Solution using no chems just shave there hair off? 😉

They  white wash alot of trees in some countries  I assume against sunscald or pests or both.

I dunno how effective it is but doesn't seem to be harmful.

Loads of white washed trees in France & Greece etc both street trees and orchards.

Population increase but also...

The large number of second homes etc increases each yr

Also there are  less council houses available  every yr,  right to buy etc...

Homelessness increases....

Where will it end no idea but maybe gradually get more like USA where they have huge homeless shanty towns in some places.

No UK politcal party seem willing  to tackle the issue.

Get a few more quotes imo.

3rd tree looks like a silver birch?

Its what  happens naturally with pines  esp if shaded

If you like you could trim the dead branches off it won't regrow ever at the bottom

Im sure I remember Alice Roberts on telly on about stone ground flour  wearing teeth down

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And yet many teeth were worn down by medieval bread.  Starting in the eleventh and twelfth centuries,  most grain was ground by big millstones, powered either by wind or water.  These replaced the old hand mills, something closer to a mortar and pestle.

It would take one person essentially all day, doing nothing else, to grind enough grain into flour in a hand mill to make enough bread for a family for one day.  Back in Roman times, a slave or two would do the grinding.  With wind mills and water mills, however, unknown to the Romans, one could grind a 50-pound bag of wheat into a 50-pound bag of flour in fifteen minutes.  Not surprisingly, this technology spread very rapidly and was adopted nearly everywhere.

But mills grind grain by rotating two big millstones against each other, with the grain in between, and what emerges is both flour and stone dust.  The stone dust would be baked into bread along with the flour.  Stone dust passes through the digestive tract without any problem, but it first wears down the teeth, not a lot with each bite, but the effect builds up over time.

Archaeologists can tell when a particular community adopted mills and millstones by looking for wear on skeletons' teeth.

Made me wonder about the flour the local windmill sells?

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Llynnon Mill is the only working windmill in Wales producing stoneground wholemeal flour using organic wheat. Visit the Iron Age Roundhouses and the reconstructed Old Bakery and then take a stroll along the Mills Trail.

Post some pictures up.

RHS is good  info:

For old neglected trees

https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/apples/renovating-old-trees

Mature trees

https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/apples/winter-pruning

https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/apples/winter-regulated-pruning

Q1 See above guides

Q2 By looking at them stuff like dead banches or canker etc are pretty easy to see.

Use secateurs loppers siky/pruning saws tripod  ladder etc to do the job.

Q3 Covered above but  also fruit thinning

https://www.rhs.org.uk/videos/advice/apple-thinning-summer-tips

Looks ok id leave it alone.

Though you could mulch round base etc if you like....

Looks like its under another big tree might be why its sparse doesn't like the shade.

Cherry plum?

Any blossom?

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Erm so what is it if it’s chucked into a bag loosely?

Loose

Loose  stacked is an oxymoron.

Its either loose or stacked not "loose stacked"

Bit of ginger with it is ok.

Won't work its a "jaffa"

Unless its concrete u need one with offroad wheels.

I found swedes easy to grow and prefer them to turnips.

Swede mash is nice with spud mash.

I don't see the point as its gonna be a hassle to fill them all as 26t gonna be alot of bags?

Why not use the 1m3 size bags?

Or is idea you have a sack trolly and bring each bag into the house to use ?

Also if you pack/stck the barrow bags to hold more logs  rather the loose fill will season alot slower-  (maybe this  is obivous)?

As  for seasoning the bags  up on pallets with space between each would be best to maximize airflow  if you can get enough pallets etc and maybe  some cover to keep the  the rain over the tops

Basicaly the ideal is as little water on the logs as possible but the greatest wind and sun exposure.

I don't think selling any is worth it unless you have acess to free wood or are doing is on a larger scale with all the equipment.

I think it died

Scrape the  trunk see if  there any green under the bark?