Trees

From what I have read the berries are best picked in late February or early March.

Your little tree looks very healthy in the photo. It is a good thing that it is not putting on lots of growth yet , it is busy putting out a good root system , to support a tree ! . Let’s see how it looks now

I would NOT call you “ old “ , l prefer “ experienced “ !!

I think it was considered "an act of god", but the tree itself was a balsam poplar growing very close to a drainage ditch, the water table where they live is not that far down anyway.The hole where the roots came out the ground was just filled with water.The tree was growing within the...

@pete i’ve already got 3 maple seedling and 3 gum tree seedlings growing, their about 2 1/2” tall at present. The reason for the sycamore, I was curious as I’d never tried to germinate the seed. I’ve got 2 Scot’s pine bonsai saplings growing, they are doing quite well, I kept dwarfing them so...

Oh I see thanks.

Hello Quo, welcome to GC Make sure you collect up all the wormy apples and dispose of them thoroughly...i.e. don't put on a compost heap. You could try pheromone traps next spring. They attract the males of the moths responsible for maggotty apples (codling moth), they get stuck on the trap,...

I think for this year I'd keep it to clearing the floor and pruning out dead, diseased and crossing wood from the apples and pears. Leave the rest to next summer

I took some new pictures of the hedge and tree this afternoon from my side of the boundary, in this first one you can see that the hedge is on the boundary, with the hole in it you can see the ground of the service lane.This next picture you can see that the tree/branches are on the...

hmm

Thanks a lot for your advice!

Brilliant @pete, many thanks. I will do that tomorrow

Thanks @shiney,i dont think itl be too thick the tree doesnt look a big as sheikhs,i just wouldnt want to harm the tree to gain them to dry the washing faster,there isnt a lot on the back hedges here between the houses and the bats need all the hedge growth/trees they can use xx

I'm sure everyone has seen me moan about the neighbour's apple tree at my back fence line. It has been dropping diseased or rotten apples on my lawn for about 3 weeks now. They don't prune, spray, or do anything to maintain this tree.Is it possible to get healthy apples from one half of a...

Osmocote controlled release is all I can think of. It needs mixing into the compost when you pot on.

Your welcome Woo.

Absolutely Pete, an acre, no problems there, I thought it looked quite pretty but it was the pot I was buying, the Birch is a very nice unsuspected surprise to me, so I am very pleased with my purchase.

Hi yana hardly any leaves on my red robin was free of black spot it must have got like that over first few weeks in winter i thought oh no my beautiful bush but someone on here did mention milk so i looked it up and it said use milk and water for 2 or 3 weeks ,so i used it so i repotted it...

I had problems in a previous house with roots from my neighbours conifer hedge causing damage to my sewer and house foundations. The roots will break through anything other than 'plastic' because it is porous and they are searching for water. This family of trees are shallow rooted but spread...

I've got to say that although it is more fiddly to do I think the polythene wrap is better than the black spheres. Especially with the cable ties as you have used @misterQ the spheres do dry out and I'm finding slugs love to hide in them during the day.