Welshfred

Any South Park fans here? ‘South Park’s most furious episode ever’: the jaw-dropping Satanic takedown of Donald Trump | Television | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM They’ve depicted the president’s privates. They’ve shown him in flagrante with the devil. The makers of the foul-mouthed US cartoon have certainly thrown down the gauntlet …

If they produce runners you can use them as the next generation, saves on new plants. I think they all do?? Also irrigation is tricky in baskets, dry year, might affect fruiting. But they do get old and need replacing one way or another

Point of lay is around 21 weeks

Must have a rooster too, surely?

It is the potus thread... There is only one...

A Reform UK puts teenagers in charge of vital public services | Reform UK | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Concerns raised about council appointments, including 19-year-old overseeing children and family services Anyone think this is a good idea? Media stunt? Or just scraping the barrel?

If you can pay for your Rhodie clearance work by making charcoal that would be fantastic but hopefully a relatively short term thing depending on the scale of the problem and the woodland. Otherwise, like SP says above, work with what you have , in other words what the planned management will be generating. The poplar is a one off, don't plan too much around that...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/23/they-cannot-be-jammed-fibre-optic-drones-pose-new-threat-in-ukraine

And yet, not discounting the significance of the above, this remains one of the most chilling things I have read about the war, things are changing all right. Small and lethal: adapted drones carrying explosives ‘hunt’ civilians in Kherson | Ukraine | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Ukrainians face new airborne threat that has killed 24 civilians and injured hundreds more since July More recently the Russians use cabled drones to avoid jamming. Cables up to 20km long....

They are indeed and will become more sophisticated very quickly. Have you read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson?

Thanks. My advice was decades old, good to be re-educated.

It is anti clockwise you twist out isn't it? I was taught to anaesthetise with meths, lighter fluid or, like tree monkey, the hot end of a fag. Then twist confidently! Haven't had to do one on myself for years, just a few on dogs. I wouldn't use the fag trick on a dog tho!!!

It could just be heat stress. I've seen Rowans do this and it looks very exposed. Any live buds at the tips? If so it may come back ok, next year if not this to some extent.

But then again... Hard to keep up!

Or not