When you're sorting out the technology for a technophobe using simple logic and basic intelligence, don't you wish there was a mute button?😠 A taser would be more satisfying, though.
I didn't know that about Dobbies being taken over. To be honest it's difficult to see how any takeover can make our local one worse. It's more like The Range now than a garden centre. Clothes, toys, books, ornaments, kitchenware etc take over at least half of the inside space,
Today I realised that lockdown which synchronised with retirement before I was ready has made me even lazier than idle. "I Must do,......." "I'll do it when I've got time."
Not sure what this thread is about but if I can use it to rant about bad luck. Forgive me if this is wrong, I'm new!
We bought a new house with a large for us garden. Our first true garden. That's the weeks ago. There were three trees needing cutting down that we could do and one or more we can't. We've cut down what we could and planned to set to with space, trowel, loppers, hatchet and anything else suitable we could get our hands on / beg, borrow or buy. Then I broke my arm.
Not being one to give up I've got one stump out and started on the second. It's got a huge growth at its base that then becomes several huge, vertical roots as big as the trunk was. Needless to say I have given up doing it one handed albeit with my partner helping. The third smaller trunk I poked around a bit but it's out back on a slope and I didn't fancy falling over trying to get it out. If at full strength it would be gone by now.
So we're planning on getting a tree surgeon to drop a largish tree in the rear, sloping garden with no access, possibly two trees. Plus take out a root there. Plus take out the huge growth of trunk/root mass in the front. It'll cost but it's the giving up on it I hate the most. Don't like admitting defeat with gardens or similar things. Used to do conservation work which included dropping trees bigger than I've got to come down. All with manual tools. I like the physical work.
Can you make a stump look nice in a garden? Perhaps grow something up through it?
Patience is a gardener's virtue you need to cultivate @NorthernJoe.
6 weeks to mend a broken arm? Couldn't wait that long?
That said, a proper tree surgeon with training, correct tools and insurance has to be an expense worth undertaking and many have stump grinders to deal with roots and stumps. Failing that, get the stump cut level and use it to stand a pot or a sculpture or disguise it with trailing/creeping plants.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Some people love Paris in the springtime but I bet the Parisians don't get to shake snow out of their wife's bra while getting the washing in at 11pm in early April. The washing is lovely and dry but anything with a hood, pocket or cup is full of dry snow and big lumps of hail.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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A taser would be more satisfying, though.
"I Must do,......."
"I'll do it when I've got time."
I've got nothing but time
🎸 I can't get no da da da
motivation da .da da🎸
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/police-appeal-bluebells-uprooted-fakenham-7876170
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We bought a new house with a large for us garden. Our first true garden. That's the weeks ago. There were three trees needing cutting down that we could do and one or more we can't. We've cut down what we could and planned to set to with space, trowel, loppers, hatchet and anything else suitable we could get our hands on / beg, borrow or buy. Then I broke my arm.
Not being one to give up I've got one stump out and started on the second. It's got a huge growth at its base that then becomes several huge, vertical roots as big as the trunk was. Needless to say I have given up doing it one handed albeit with my partner helping. The third smaller trunk I poked around a bit but it's out back on a slope and I didn't fancy falling over trying to get it out. If at full strength it would be gone by now.
So we're planning on getting a tree surgeon to drop a largish tree in the rear, sloping garden with no access, possibly two trees. Plus take out a root there. Plus take out the huge growth of trunk/root mass in the front. It'll cost but it's the giving up on it I hate the most. Don't like admitting defeat with gardens or similar things. Used to do conservation work which included dropping trees bigger than I've got to come down. All with manual tools. I like the physical work.
Can you make a stump look nice in a garden? Perhaps grow something up through it?
6 weeks to mend a broken arm? Couldn't wait that long?
That said, a proper tree surgeon with training, correct tools and insurance has to be an expense worth undertaking and many have stump grinders to deal with roots and stumps. Failing that, get the stump cut level and use it to stand a pot or a sculpture or disguise it with trailing/creeping plants.
https://www.gardenfundamentals.com/stumpery-garden-ferns/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.