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  1. Paul in the woods
    Are they not ant mounds? If it is grass I would call them tussocks. This thread comes up on google with loads more names: What are these? | The Farming Forum THEFARMINGFORUM.CO.UK
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    Since they came from Japan? If you google pictures of my suggestion the nodes are opposite. However, my suggestion was/is just an educated guess - other suggestions welcome. The leaves look too short in the first pic posted but as far as I could tell Salix integra seems to be fairly variable in its leaves. 'Flamingo' Dappled Willow - Overdevest Nurseries, LP WWW.GROWNBYOVERDEVEST.COM Spectacular show of colors - white, green and deep pink - adorn this beauty during the growing season
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    On a serous note I have seen stumps for sale for well over £100+ in posh garden centres down your way. IIRC they were weathered, but a few minutes with a sand blaster...
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    I have something similar, a few beech stumps in an old hedge. They were cut down a few years ago and they've all regrown to some extent from the edge. The ones that had a few small low down branches that were left seem ok, the one stump without any branches has thrown up some weak growth that has died off and gone brown over the last month. I assume the growth isn't enough to sustain the stump and it's slowly dying. I also note some mature beech trees are showing the odd patch of die back as well.
  5. Paul in the woods
    Indeed, and it depends what Farmer Miggins wanted. Some farmers round here tend to prune trees by simply driving tractors into them. Personally I'd like it rounded if it's in the garden, but in my wood I'd prefer it more spiky.
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    I was going to say the first pic looks like oak but the second looks a bit like elm (although I don't have any elm here to burn). I would tend to go on smell as well, oak smells quite strongly. I thought elm should burn ok if well seasoned, I think it gets a bad rep as it's a very wet wood when fresh and needs a long time to season. When you say 15% moisture, is that from a freshly split face from a large log?
  7. Paul in the woods
    It looks like a willow of some sort and a google for variegated willow throws up similar looking plants such as Salix integra 'Hakuro-nishiki'. Does that match?
  8. Paul in the woods
    I've seen people skin an old leather sofa and use the leather to make pouches. Someone may be giving away an old one near you? You can make a simple pouch by cutting out a round, making holes round the edge and threading a drawstring around. No sewing required.
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    The two blobs look like old slime moulds to me, possibly dogs vomit ( Fuligo septica ). The best pic I can find is here: The mysterious world of the Slime Mould – Woodlands.co.uk WWW.WOODLANDS.CO.UK Woodland for sale throughout the UK, including woods for sale in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Advice on...
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    I do often check Apsen's dealer locator but I live in a fairly remote part of Devon. The town I tend to shop at had a dealer that stocked it but they seem to have closed. My largest village and next nearest town both have shops that stock motomix so I've started using that rather than Aspen as it's what I can get.
  11. Paul in the woods
    A suggestion would be a young oak bracket fungus, Pseudoinonotus dryadeus. I would wait for someone more knowledgable for a positive id.
  12. Paul in the woods
    Funnily enough that's my main gripe about Aspen - availability still. My localish supplier seems to have closed so it's a special trip if I need some. If only a petrol station, DIY shed or agri store down here stocked it.
  13. Paul in the woods
    They look like boletes (boletes will have pores on the underside of the cap) but they don't look like ceps (boletus edulis). The red stems suggests they're not edible and may be poisonous. I'd guess they are bitter boletes or similar.
  14. Paul in the woods
    This is not a recommendation, as I've not used one, but the Makita EA4300 has cropped up before with an offer that seems almost too good to be true - £245 . Might be worth asking how people with them are getting on? Makita EA4300F45C 43cc Petrol Chainsaw (45cm) + FREE Spare Chain | Fastfix WWW.FASTFIX.CO.UK The Makita EA4300F45C is a powerful 43cc industrial petrol chainsaw packed full of features and is supplied with a 45cm...
  15. Paul in the woods
    So you assume any new builds will be nicely spread out around the country? Most will be around cities, towns, villages where there's work, transport and other facilities - as illustrated by Big J. I can't see this not resulting in very large price rises in the areas where most people would want to build. As for your tax, it's still a tax.
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    I didn't say, and don't think, everyone will move out of the cities. (Actually will there be an outside of cities if there's not planning restrictions, will one city just merge into the next?). But, there's plenty of people who are willing to move out. Those people buying up all the rural property and pricing Big J out of the market for one. Many would have loved the chance to buy a large chunk of land and build a new property rather than buy and expensive, run down farm, and renovate. As for a land tax, very John McDonnell.
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    I'm assuming the laws of supply and demand remain the same. Say farm land is £10k an acre due to the demand from farmers. Allow anyone to build on it then the demand rises and the price will go up. Not to the same price as a building plot today but I bet it would be far more than £10k an acre. Then you wonder who would buy it. Not your average person because you've instantly crashed the property market so there wouldn't be many places to borrow the money from. There's plenty of wealthy people with cash who would hoover up the land, probably not those who really need it though. In order to make the land available to most people you'd need very strict laws governing who could buy what I'd guess - something you wouldn't be in favour?
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    I'm not convinced sweeping changes to planning would help many here. If you could build wherever you want then the price of land would rise dramatically. Those who can currently afford large expensive houses would probably then buy up the land. Those on lower incomes then wouldn't be able to afford the land. You may well be worse off as it would be likely food prices would rise etc. Personally I wouldn't want people to whatever they liked. I'm happy to say I'm a NIMBY and I don't want a toxic tip built next door, an industrial unit working 24/7 or whatever. Certainly there's lots in the system that needs changing. For example I don't understand why I have to build a workshop "in keeping with the local area" when a farm can build a huge concrete barn and floodlight it all night without any planning at all.
  19. Paul in the woods
    You and Yours - Call You and Yours: What are rents and house prices doing near you? - BBC Sounds WWW.BBC.CO.UK Catch up on your favourite BBC radio show from your favourite DJ right here, whenever you like. Listen without limits with... 15:35 in if you missed it.
  20. Paul in the woods
    The missing bark does look like squirrel damage, keep an eye on the ground in the spring/summer for strips of bark. I've found reducing the number of squirrels greatly reduces bark stripping, i.e. you don't need to get every one. Whatever you do it must be done legally and humanely. Traps may be your best bet but ensure they are legal as I gather the rules are changing yet again this year. As for the diseased leaves, I've got some very sick looking sycamores that often loose their leaves about now but they come back every year.
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    Worth a read: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/823972/ON046a_Managing_individual_ash_affected_by_dieback_v1.0.pdf
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    I had rabbits when I was a child and one was attacked by a rat. I would also be concerned by stoats and weasels. I would have thought the best answer is to exclude the pests from the run otherwise they might get the rabbits before they make it to the garage. I would close the hatch in the evenings just to be sure.
  23. Paul in the woods
    The ‘gardening job’ that almost sparked a war WWW.BBC.CO.UK In 1976, North Koreans killed two US officers in the DMZ over a tree, sparking a huge military gardening operation.
  24. Paul in the woods
    Not really. In the good old pre-financial crisis days you could self certify your income for a mortgage. Too many people without a reliable income did this and helped caused the crash so banks stopped it preventing sensible people from getting on with their lives.
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    The safety data sheets look similar, with Aspen 2 showing Benzene level lower than 0,1 % and MotoMix showing Benzene < 0.05 percentage by volume, pump fuel would be much higher wouldn't it? MotoMix is mostly "Naphtha (petroleum), full-range alkylate,butane-contg." and Aspen "Naphtha (petroleum), full-range alkylate, butane-contg" which looks the same to me? Safety Data Sheets WWW.STIHL.CO.UK STIHL - Information all about the STIHL Group and our extensive product range. Aspen 2 | Aspen 4 | Premixed Petrol | Aspen Fuel ASPENFUEL.CO.UK Aspen Fuel is a leading UK distributor of Aspen Products including Aspen 2 stroke fuel, Aspen 4 stroke fuel and...

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