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JFK BLOWN AWAY WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAAAAY...
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Mine are squeezed into 18m2, they are starting to get cabin fever. Nine girls and two boys, both of whom are destined to be passanda as soon as I get the time to process them. Tricky to provide them with enough greenery, I throw them a few cabbages each week to destroy.
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Where did you go?
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That's the spirit, molly coddle the roots off of them. Drown them in acid. When I was planting for forestry I dug a wild bilberry out of the ground next to a patch of mature spruce, stuck it in an empty whip bag and carried it around with me until the walk back to the vans for tea. The stand was harvested later that year and all of the bilberry's relatives dead. The one I kept is still in a big tub, waiting for the chance to be set free under a suitable tree, along with a couple of cowberries. The kids can't leave them alone during the season. No jam has ever been made.
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A lot of reading I've done suggests keeping blueberries and bilberries in big tubs unless you are already on their favourite soil type, so you can control their fairly-fussy environmental needs more closely. A common trick out here in Ireland is to mulch them with the long-rotted contents of old windrows in spruce forestry.
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The same effect can be achieved by setting an oscillating desktop fan in front of your young seedlings for a few hours a day, when they are still up on the bench.
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Sounds a bit like it, doesn't it. Yeah stupid to blame the truck driver, when it was obviously the tree's fault.
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Helping a large cherry tree that's bleeding sap
peds replied to MikeEdStan's topic in Tree health care
Now is the perfect time to do this: spread out 2 or 3 layers of brown cardboard under the tree, as far out into the grass as you are willing to go, and cover that with mushroom compost, rotted manure, mauldy auld seaweed, decent compost, anything you can fine. Top it with bark or woodchip if you want a pretty finish. Don't go too close to the trunk. For extra points, mix a load of biochar into the organic material you mulch it with. Feed the tree, it needs nutritients. -
Scatter it with white clover or mustard, leave it for a year, plough it in, level it if needed, grass seed next year.
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4 acres seems more petting zoo size, I'd say.
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Jesus that's massive.
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One mustn't forget that life expectancy statistics throughout history are hugely skewed by child and infant mortality rates, which is a problem we have only relatively recently solved. They weren't as common a few hundred years ago, but old people definitely existed. I forget where I read it, but I think it's been suggested that as long as you made it past your early teenage years, and excepting things like famine, war, plague, and such, you could generally expect to see a few wrinkles before you passed on.
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Bully for you friendo, that isn't the global situation, and part of the problem is people like yourself who can't see further than the end of their own nose. I'm ducking out at this stage to carry on with my day, but I'll just quickly repeat the tired old fact that we are currently in the midsts of the most comprehensive mass-extinction event the planet has ever seen, and Mother Nature, or Gaia, or God or Jehova or whatever you want to call her, doesn't care if humans are carried along for the ride, we have to get ourselves out of this mess, we know exactly what will give us the best chance of survival, and for some strange reason, there are millions of people out there who are against the idea.
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Haha, yeah... that's... not the direction this is headed buddy. What makes you think you can exist on a planet that midges can't survive on? You've got a weird idea of perfection, broseph.
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I don't think you really understand what the word utopia means.
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Yeah... that's nonsense.
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Seems as good a thread as any to repeat the polite request to source as much of your food as you can from organic or regenerative sources as you can afford; stop using chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fertilisers; try to cut out 95% of the meat and 50% of the dairy from your diet; do whatever you can to eliminate unnecessary plastic use from your daily routines; stop flying and buying airfreight products from the other side of the planet; put a jumper on instead of turning on the central heating; and generally just try and live like a f*cking hermit in a cave until just one of the many existential crises we are currently living through inevitably puts an end to our destructive civilisation, one way or another. Long term its all pointless at this stage, but let's all try our hardest to row away from the waterfall instead of towards it, eh? Thanks.
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Are you suggesting that cutting down the neighbour instead would be a simpler solution?
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So after the doctor had stitched it closed, I ask him " Doctor, do you think I'll be able to play the piano?" "Of course," he replies, "You'll be able to play in two to three weeks." "That's great!" I cried, "I never could before!"
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Back when I was a chef, I had a weird little tradition where whenever I bought a new knife, I would use it almost exclusively for any task (unless it was too absurd... no paring knife for dismantling pumpkins, no bread knife for jointing chickens, etc) until it had drawn blood for the first time, at which point it could be rotated into regular service. Its blood lust quelled, it could be trusted and used as normal. The first 5000 nails to go through this thing went absolutely fine, I accidentally got bitten today though... I was firing from a funny angle behind the scaffold, holding the batten up against a level marker, and my slightly-useless middle finger, the victim of cat bite and surgery, just forgot to not be in the way. Whoops! At least I'm not pinned against the wall... could have been a lot worse. Lesson learned.
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Great stuff. Very jealous of your homegrown cladding. How chunky were the leylandii? What m² did they cover?
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Christ this is a handy thing to have.
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I'm not glued to the 24hr livestream like I was for the first 6 months, but I'm still fairly current. What a senseless waste
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A pair of 2.750 for every meter of roof, 18 of them, both sides... and the same for the walls... We'll be mitreing a lot of corners. Look lovely when it's done. Maybe.
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Yeah I was surprised to learn these fibre cement ones were 50kg each, overall it's significantly lighter than a tile or slate roof, but it's going to be a bitch to get into place. Roof and walls, 200-odd sheets.
