Steven P
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Nice house. Garage in an extension? If so you can add another 3m from the tree to the main part of the house? Not a lot I know. If it has been there a while then I'd guess that as it currently is it won't affect much. Good idea about insurance quotes. Leaves... a leaf blower is a small cost if you like the house as is a ladder to clear the gutters (or gutter guards + a ladder)
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Hi, I'm no gardener but I bought this pear tree last year, I was hoping this year we may get some fruit from it. The leaves are not looking too good and it has not flowered for any fruit. Can anyone help, tell me if or what I am doing wrong. Many thanks
Steven P replied to Mojo220167's topic in Picture Forum
I'm just outside Glasgow but seem to have apples in cycles - last year not so many, this year back to considering an apple press and cider (canned that idea last year) -
Rescues are more impressive than the excuses the Holywood ladies are making for what goes on their faces. Knowing your limits on the hills is a definite bonus, weather conditions can change to push the hills out of your abilities while you are there... then what is in your head is the best tool - ask for help, seek shelter, go another way....or plop onto the rocks below
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anyway, if I can totally lower the tone? Probably lower than not safe or work? People are getting salmon sperm injected into their faces. Why? UK.YAHOO.COM Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Aniston have had the treatment done, and like Aniston, I have a few questions Apparently any sperm will work, Salmon being more harvestable in quantities, and it doesn't have to be injected, just a facial will work. Try that suggestion tonight?
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went to get petrol today, 129.9, remember the last petrol protests about 5 years ago, when they were protesting about 135.9 a litre (it was that here).. so with Jo, Vlad, Benji and Yahya s best efforts the petrol prices are lower then they were before these wars started.....
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Hi, I'm no gardener but I bought this pear tree last year, I was hoping this year we may get some fruit from it. The leaves are not looking too good and it has not flowered for any fruit. Can anyone help, tell me if or what I am doing wrong. Many thanks
Steven P replied to Mojo220167's topic in Picture Forum
Catching up on this, I get my trees from the link above - had about 10 off him and no failures yet. Mum wants an 'orchard' (well 3 trees) so will go back to him again. For fruit, had a lot this year, apple crumble every other day plus 5 to 10 bug eaten windfalls for the cows every other day for the last 6 weeks.. and I still have a lot left on the tree (10 year old trees, eaters are in full afternoon sun, cookers are in partial shade) -
If it was me I'd make the summer house as if you didn't have one installed - so all the standards you'd expect. Basis of this is that you are realistically only likely to have the log burner going once at the weekend in the winter (despite good intentions), and not at all in the summer... so 90% of the week it is sat doing nothing.. and so no effect on damp in the summer house
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Would be obvious you are there to work if you are taking your climbing kit, can't hide that, but also check that it is clean according to their bio security rules.... likewise too much late night TV!
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Kind of hope he doesn't get elected but keeps up with his social media posts just for the comedy value as his marbles decline with age. Also kind of hope that one of the American broadcasters keeps humouring and triggering him. Cruel perhaps, shouldn't mock.
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Likewise get someone to inspect the tree, might be someone on here in your area who could do that - let us know where you are perhaps. As for the council, regardless it would be handy to know which trees you have (if any) have a TPO so might be useful to talk to them anyway.
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Couple of days later and this looks like it is fizzling out a bit to just nasty and not all out war, Iran I think saving face that assassinations took place on their soil.
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tried rotatech chains on my saws this year - usually (homeowner use) went OEM and they have done me OK, not as cheap but cheaper
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why is this so urgent? I am no expert but do all processors use the same sized bars and chains? What is your definition of best? durability, speed of cut, hardness of the cutting edges, sharpening requirements, price and so on? Might need to be a little more specific.
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Yeah but tell her how hot she looks wearing wellies and you might just get away with it. (or a whole new world of adult interests)
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Codominant lime tree - is it ‘fine’?
Steven P replied to evajo's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Would something smaller get dwarfed by the others around it I wonder? -
Codominant lime tree - is it ‘fine’?
Steven P replied to evajo's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Yes, I remember but can't remember which thread it was in -
No idea either but be interesting to find out
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Should have asked this a while ago, do you have a budget (might have missed that bit). I'd be tempted to put a drain along both sides, stop run off running off onto the drive and take whatever falls onto it when it is raining. Could link them both to the existing ones down the slope. A couple of surface drains over the slope part to reduce the amount of water onto the road - the type with a grid on top (fewer trip hazards on the way back from the local). Wasn't it the Romans who worked out that if you can get rid of the water then the roads lasted a lot longer?
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I'd always thought that kiln drying works that you can charge a premium but you also don't need to rent twice as much storage space for air drying - kiln dried the logs can be in and out in a year, air dried 2 years+. Consistent product and able to produce more from the same land / yard area. Wood fuel to burn the wood that isn't economical to kiln dry - softwoods, scraps, misshapen bits, chips ('waste')
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as above in this instance, it is a small drive and not a yard so I think the occasional truck, perhaps delivering a new freezer every 10 years shouldn't factor in - in this case - however it is interesting to read in the general discussion for future reference (I get a load of logs tipped a couple of times a year and every 5 the most recent to die car gets taken away on a flat bed)
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15x3 drive, it is only going to be used for cars though.
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Skirting: Going to be putting solid flooring down in the next year or so, replacing the skirting as the other option would be to remove and refit higher up after stripping the paint (80 years of knocks and dents) with the flooring underneath the skirting - I really don't like those plastic edge strips. This years pottering is replacing the sub floor as and when the family are out for the day. Oh, and stripping the doors to repaint, new latches, handles, tiling, but first there are logs to cut and hedges to trim so have to mow before house DIY,. and while I have the trimmer out cut back the brambles from the path in the woods... and while I do that, pick few berries, re-site the trail cams.. and plant a few willows into a living wall... eventually getting back on track with the flooring later.
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Simplest might be to drill through the drive where the puddles form to create a soak away at that point, put a grid on top - might keep the wife happy while you work out the best solution between you? Power brush the lot to make it look nice
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Thinking of quotes, the one that amused me earlier - I think he was man quening for petrol for a couple of hours, "even the grocery stores are shut" - his neigbours houses are blown down but he cannot get to the shop to buy his cornflakes. Meant to be have been the most powerful?
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You'd be surprised! (last tree I took down, by a burn, no obvous fenceline in that field, 1' length exactly where I wanted to cut full of old nails with nothing obvious to show they were there)
