Rushes
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Reading this topic I am so grateful for the NHS. Remember that nutter in the States that shot from a window in Las Vegas and killed 58 and injured hundreds more? Well if the injured can prove the hotel was negligent in letting him stay their insurance will pay - otherwise better hope your insurance is good enough. Here you can get hurt through others stupidity, bad luck, your own stupidity or your teams and still you get fixed up . No having to sell your house because the insurance thing didn't quite work out.
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You can have all the firearms in the World, but if there is food available you will have rats. If you can't feed the stock without leaving food around then all you can do is control the numbers. Reduce the places they can hide, ensure that there is no other food than the hens they can eat and get a decent ratter, cat or dog and learn to live with the bu££ers.
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Is there a chance that you have Lymes? A tick bite in the last few weeks / months that went away. If there is any chance then the Dr. should understand Lyme borreliosis in French
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Ring your bank, do not do anything with the number.
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If it is subsoil then you need to bring the soil to life. It will need a solid lump of topsoil / muck heap on top and ideally a year of growing anything that will to bring life to the soil - usually annual deep rooted crops that will break up the pan. You can try and build a hole that has good stuff in it that will feed the tree for a year or two, but if you don't attend to the soil then you are trying to grow trees in a pocket of goodness encased by dead matter - think a clay pot. Look to the soil, until you see worms / fungus you don't have a place to plant a tree to survive. If it's on a price - stick them in but don't offer a guarantee for replacement without the previous treatment.
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Vegetative propagation of Monkey Puzzles
Rushes replied to Gary Prentice's topic in Tree health care
They grow in free draining soil so will be particularly prone to rotting. To try and strike them I would try different things, so maybe go back and get some more cuttings? From where it grows keeping the bottom dryish with a relatively humid atmosphere seems the best way of trying. If you have ever tried striking cactus you will know that they loose little moisture from there shiny/spiky surface - which is a lot like monkey puzzle - and will put roots down into sand with little moisture. Most important is to try lots of different things, because you have more chance. I realise that there is only one leader, but if you take the tops from a branch you may get lucky. -
There is a problem that needs to get resolved. Latest version of Firefox sees a problem. Will do some more investigating. I do not use this password anywhere else, if I did I would change it. I recommend that if you do you change the other places that are important that use the same password.
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The NHS is expensive and rubbish, until you consider the alternatives. All of this is free at the point of delivery, you may have to wait, but you get it even if you can't afford to pay. Personally I don't have £10k in a bank account for a new knee. I am rather keen on the NHS.
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If I am honest, it would be better to offer the first 10 chains free to those buying a stihl or husqvarna and asking them to compare [probbably repeat customers would be best] Ask them to give unbiased critiques - this is of great value to manufacturer and they should pay you for it. What is then written on an open forum will move things forward faster. Just my thought on this.
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Anyone happen to be travelling from France to the UK?
Rushes replied to agg221's topic in General chat
This is the best of arbtalk, a true geeks corner. Love it, keep it coming. Learning so much about apple rootstocks more than I knew before. -
Wear gloves when handling the wood.
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This is the obvious answer: [ame] [/ame]Let it dry for a day or two and collect a hay, much easier to cart away.
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The best way to invest your money is to work with someone doing the same course. Meet regularly for study sessions and finish with a beer. It will make the studying sink in and your learning will work better for you in the future. My recommendation, find a study buddy.
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Stuck record here, use Kania traps. They set easily, trigger well and no guilt about poison, live then dead. http://www.pestcontrolcanada.ca/Mini%20webs/home-page-row-01.jpg
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A tree under stress has little ability to fight back. It's shaded, reduced water and compacted with low oxygen / fungal activity at its roots. It won't do as well. You can try and make it better but it will never have as good conditions as the other tree and will always look poorer, it will die sooner. It's not small, near the house, let it die and put a shrub in.
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Vermin control needed needed. Kania traps work well.
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picture?
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A 1 metres by 1 metre bag will hold 8 x 0.5m bag, 4 at the bottom, 4 at the top, the cube is made of 8. The maths is a 0.5 x 0.5 is 0.25 You need 8 of these to make 1 metre cube. A .7 x .7 x.7 = 0.34. The savings are three fold. You make a saving on each side - and you have 3 sides. Think of the original cube divided into 8.
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Have you changed the height of the lawn in the garden around the trees? It maybe looks a little too flat for trees of this age?
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Biological washing powder at a few times normal strength - breaks down the enzymes [so no new food] and kills the bacteria making the smell.
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What you need is a solution to a problem, how you get there and what it requires doesn't really matter. This isn't about clothing this is about people. Explain the problem, My arse will be sued if I don't keep you safe and you will be out of a job I need you to be visible. I want you to be comfortable. The budget I have is £x Here are some trade manuals. Ask them what they want to have, this is about health and safety, they own the problem as much as you, declining to engage is not an option. Enjoy delegating problems to others, it is sometimes amazing how quickly they can be solved and how involved the team will feel.
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Time for an emergency call to the tree officer.
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Oops missed this
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Seems to prove otherwise, more normally there is also this:
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Well I know it can't be from the bark, but the wood looks like olive
