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Then lovingly frosted with glucose.

Sure hope it was the right guy!

Yeah, pretty annoying that sort of thing, to be honest. Last place I lived I had a whole pile of raspberry canes, I'd prune them, feed them, try my hardest to keep the snails off them and discourage the birds from eating the fruit, but it was always a battle to get any decent yield. But the best, healthiest, most productive plant... a self-seeded unloved bastard child growing from a tiny crack in the tarmac next to the shed. Never fed, never pruned, just working it's way up through the bitumen without a care in the world.

Dig a bit of soil out from under a healthy tree, mix it 50/50 with compost, and throw in a handful of chicken pellets too.

Leave it where it is for this season, you'd stress it out a bit too much if you tried to move it at this late stage. It'd be easily enough done if you took a decent sized bit of ground with it, but you would set it back a bit. It doesn't look like it's in the way there too much. Build a little barrier around it to protect it from unintended traffic (stones, sticks, etc.), feed it little and often (compost tea once a week or fortnight, or occasional top dressing with chicken manure and seaweed pellets), and make sure it doesn't dry out. Wait until the next dormant season, December to March, and dig it up then, either into a pot or it's intended location. Where would you like it to live eventually? Depending on the ground you want to put it in, there's nothing stopping you from preparing the soil now. You'd not need to do much if it's moving into an already healthy garden, but you could think about planting a deep-rooting green manure in the area to add organic material and to mine nutrients from further down in the soil, or you could mulch the area with well-aged and rotted woodchip to encourage fungal networks to develop. New ground or poor soil (former building sites, new estates, reclaimed ground, etc.) would greatly benefit from being inoculated with soil biota from a healthy woodland ecosystem: just steal a shovelful of soil from a decent forest (probably technically illegal, so be a little furtive about it...), mix it about in a few shovels of peat-free compost or aged manure and woodchip, and dig it gently into the top few inches of the intended spot for the rowan. Seems like a lot of effort to go to now, but it will lay the groundwork for a prime planting location next dormant season.

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I actually took one of the most sensible bits of advice ever posted in that thread and clicked on the ignore button. You can sit on your merry-go-round yelling at the clouds by yourself if you'd like. 🙂

No, the problem isn't people complaining about the direction we are headed. The problem is where we are headed. Victim blaming will achieve nothing. I'll make a deal with you... let's check in every 5 years until the year 2050 and see what the story is.

Haha, yeah, don't get me started on Greta! She's the reason we are all in this mess in the first place! I reckon we can place the blame for the extinction of all complex life on Earth squarely on her shoulders...

Should have gone with the broken record.

After centuries of destruction from fossil fuels, rampant industrialisation and unchecked capitalism, you choose to place the blame for our ultimate extinction on the people trying to put a band aid on the arterial bleed? What kind of mental gymnastics is this?!

I couldn't decide whether to post a picture of a tiny violin or a broken record. You poor thing... still waiting?

Tobacco should be banned and absolutely everything else made legal. Why wreck your health for such a shitty return on investment. At least crack melts the world for a wee while, tobacco does eff all.

Ah no, paint them with preserver. Get that wild and shabby chic look, but safely sterile and devoid of all life. It'll last for years.

I see the value of this kind of thing for rewilding and habitat creation, I use them a lot myself. But that price tag... wow.

I don't need any suggestions, thank you.

Why is hydro worse than fossil fuels?

To be fair, those are the cheapest stumps and rootballs I've seen for sale. Market opportunity for anyone able to undercut him right there. Target market... who exactly?

Seems to be a psychological thing about learning people's names. I got to a page with a face on the screen, the first real page of it after asking my date of birth and gender (how dare you!), and it seemed to freeze. So I left.

I think they should be mandatory.

Well, that's smashing. Hope the new jobs work out well for the area.

^ To be fair, he did that bloody well. Until he needed chappy with the shirt to finish it off for him down on the ground.

Looks like a beast.

I know a fella who replaced the wooden shaft of his sledgehammer with thick metal pipe. There's a bit of feedback on a heavy swing, but there's not much risk of it breaking. Well, the user's wrists maybe, but not the shaft. Another vote for Fiskars here. I got their tiny wee camping axe recently too, it's great fun.