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That's what I'm basing my assumptions on, certainly.

Well I'm perfectly happy to have my assumptions destroyed and my errors corrected, but I will need to see everything laid out on that nice neat little table.

Is that need-need, or do they just need to have a simulated process? I would have thought that some gentle rotting or fermentation, then soaking, then mechanical separation of seed and pulp, followed by a spell in the freezer or being forgotten about behind the shed for the winter, would be a decent enough simulation for most seeds. It could quite well be that some seeds need a specific acid or enzyme from the guts of a bird though, it wouldn't surprise me at all. Edit: This process seems logical enough... Rowan - How to Grow a Rowan Tree (Mountain Ash) with TCV TREEGROWING.TCV.ORG.UK Rowan can be a tricky tree to grow. With care and this short guide, you'll be collecting the... I'll be doing the above with hawthorn this winter, trying to find out if native seed-propagated can ever be commercially viable over cuttings grown in Holland, which we absolutely need to stop using... for everything.

Right, someone get a newby to pick all of the green bits out of the chip box, then weigh it.

Very surprising, I would have assumed that summer wood would be heavier. I'd say it's definitely worth looking into. Maybe I'll take a few litre samples as described on the previous page and make that handy little table! Check back in a few years for the results 😉

Don't forget to weigh several different one litre samples of each wood type and average them out! Science demands the accuracy of a few grams either way.

Is that all the variation would be, do you think? Chip from summer beech in leaf has to be a good bit heavier than ash felled in winter... I couldn't be sure, but it seems like it'd be more than that 15%. Anyone ever printed a nice neat little table with different chip weights on it? Would be a handy resource to have.

I wonder what would happen if you ran it through a slushy or ice cream machine...

Laurel is, like, the antithesis of my whole vibe, man. Holly I can dig. Seems aggressive though. Maybe holm oak...

I might try and find an organic or free-range version more local to me for the next batch, though. Might even just forage a bunch of big autumn leaves and scrawl my number on them in felt tip marker. Horse chestnut should do it.

Looks lovely! I got some done on vistaprint the other day, I'm very happy with them.

Yeah sorry boss. Won't happen again.

No pottering, too busy being utterly embarrassed along with some firemen by an equivalent number of rugby players, best of three. There was no third match. In our defence, some of the rugby players had cleats.

Speaking as a holidaying campervanner and friend of many lifelong van-people, no it f*cking doesn't!! 😆 Hats off on getting a flat though, hope it works well for you. 👍 What's the schedule?

Ah come on mate, give us some pictures. They are worth a thousand words!

Would the Adele - Butterdance video work at all? It's 4 minutes long, so settle in.

It's funny stuff.

Yeah, votes every now and then to check you are in step with the overall wishes of the population seems like a pretty good idea.

Murder charges for the father, please.

Gathered lots of brash and scrap wood from around the garden and made a new border along part of the drive, filled hugelculture style, partly with woodchip and part big chunks, then managed to top it with a few barrowloads of soil from one of my spare mounds before it was time to collect the children. Another 6 or 7 barrows should just about do the trick. I have all sorts of rescued plants waiting to go in.

Miles overhead. Like Challenger or one of those SpaceX yokes. Miles. * Anyway, he said the thing! Now everyone has to do a shot.

Sigh... another school shooting. Only 4 dead this time, so I guess it doesn't really count? Thots and prares, as usual. Georgia high school shooting: student charged with murder after four people killed in Apalachee Authorities say suspect, 14, also wounded nine others, with FBI later saying they had investigated him and his father a year ago Two students and two teachers were killed at a Georgia high school on Wednesday in a mass shooting authorities say was committed by a 14-year-old male student at the school. At least nine others were taken to the hospital following the incident at Apalachee high school in Winder, about 50 miles north-east of Atlanta. Officials said at an afternoon press conference that the suspect was alive and in custody, and surrendered quickly as officers, including two school resources officers, entered the campus and confronted him. Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia bureau of investigation, took the unusual step of naming the minor, Colt Gray, as the suspect. He said the suspect would be charged as an adult with four counts of murder. “What is more important for me to mention here to you is my heartfelt sympathy to the parents, the students that were here,” he said. He did not disclose what kind of firearm was used, or how it was obtained. Aerial video shows evacuated students in football field after school shooting in Georgia – video The Federal Bureau of Investigation later issued a statement revealing that it had investigated online threats to commit a school shooting in 2023 and local law enforcement interviewed a 13-year-old subject and his father in nearby Jackson county. The statement did not identify the teen, but Georgia officials said the statement was in connection to the subject in custody. “The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them. The subject denied making the threats online. Jackson County alerted local schools for continued monitoring of the subject,” the FBI said, adding that there was no probable cause to make an arrest https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/georgia-high-school-shooting-apalachee Edit : I don't suppose anyone remembers this political ad for Georgia's governor, where he pointed a shotgun at his daughter's boyfriend... not exactly related to the news above, but not a thousand miles away either.

Yeah, no problem at all reducing the space it takes, and keeping it as a tiny wee bush answers the question of what to do with a stump that keeps growing back... just let it, instead of fighting it.

Well there's possibly a bit more in the way of technique to be applied if you want the process to look in any way skillful, but yeah, that's essentially it. Are you talking hand saw or chain saw? Take off the green bits as close to the main stems as you can with a pair of loppers, in as big a chunks as you can manage, to take the weight off the woody bits and make them easier to deal with. Then a hand saw should do each stem in a single go. It'll shoot up again from the base, there's nothing stopping you from keeping it as a tidy little shrub by trimming it at nipple, navel, or knee height twice a year.