Rushes

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.

This is the obvious answer: [ame] [/ame]Let it dry for a day or two and collect a hay, much easier to cart away.

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.

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

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.

Vermin control needed needed. Kania traps work well.

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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.

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?

Biological washing powder at a few times normal strength - breaks down the enzymes [so no new food] and kills the bacteria making the smell.

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.

Time for an emergency call to the tree officer.

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Seems to prove otherwise, more normally there is also this:

Well I know it can't be from the bark, but the wood looks like olive

The page offered was good. Witnesses expenses and allowances: Legal Guidance: The Crown Prosecution Service There is a PDF to download to fill in, the guidance is: Ordinary Witnesses Witnesses may receive compensation for: travelling expenses money spent on refreshments and meals financial loss (e.g. loss of earnings) other expense incurred (e.g. childcare NB: There are limits on the amounts payable: bus and train fares (standard fare) are normally repaid in full; travel by bicycle is paid at 20p per mile; travel by motor vehicle is paid at a rate per mile; a higher rate per mile may be paid if it is necessary, as opposed to just convenient, to use a private motor vehicle; taxi fares are allowed where this was the only form of transport available or if a witness is disabled or infirm. set limits apply to refreshments and meals; maximum daily amounts apply to loss of earnings and other financial losses. the PDF goes on to explain: Loss of earnings – self-employed persons (Ordinary Witnesses only) The maximum amount of earnings lost that may be repaid is:  For an absence from work not exceeding 4 hours £42.95  For an absence from work exceeding 4 hours £85.90 Payments to compensate for temporary loss of profits are taxable as receipts of a business. To claim loss of earnings, you must provide some evidence of self-employment (eg business card or letterhead with your name shown, firms stamp, tax or VAT reference, accountant’s letter) and you may be required to provide evidence of your loss. The decision to pay the higher rate is discretionary and it will not be paid automatically. Motor car: If you use your own motor car, you will be paid 25p for each mile. In addition, if you give a lift to another witness who is required to attend court or other person authorised to accompany you, a further 2p per mile will be paid for the first passenger and 1p per mile for each additional passenger. Exceptionally, if you can show that you had to use your own car instead of public transport (for example, because there was no public transport, or there was a considerable saving of time and money, or because you are disabled or infirm), then a higher rate of 45p per mile may be paid. You will need to justify using your own motor car to be eligible for the higher rate. Finally: Principle The CPS is responsible for paying allowances and expenses to witnesses who are called to give evidence in prosecutions conducted by the Service. The CPS aims to pay 100% of correctly completed witness expense claims within 10 working days of receipt. I think this is the relevant webste for your situation.

Don't forget to change the sewerage to a valve system or the water will come up through the drains if it is higher outside than in.

And mostly if you have badgers they won't re-home them with you.

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If you want the undergrowth cleared pigs will do it for you - they will grub up everything but if it is all brambles then you aren't losing much - and they make good eating. Needs good fencing or electric. If you don't want the hassle of movement orders then ask someone with pigs to do it for you.

You will find more predators where prey is plentiful. They will only be there if there is plenty of food. If you keep the predators down you will have more prey and if this species is struggling then they will get a helping hand. You are upsetting the natural balance and man has done this in the landscape for many thousands of years. If you want to have more prey species then you will need to control the predators, if you want to see more predators then stop killing them. Personally I prefer the tradition of keeping down predators and having more prey. The corvid family not only prey on small birds but on livestock so I feel comfortable keeping their number under control, others feel differently. I don't want their extermination but I have no problem with control. Google crow or raven lamb attack if you want to understand my reasoning.

Looks like a park so maybe a fire? It looks as though it has been healing so <if> it is found fit I would spray off the sward around the trunk and give it more of a chance to survive. I don't like the look of the moss, healthy trees tend not to do this.

Ground has been raised. Get rid of the muck or more trees will fail.

Definitely hornbeam