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• Re: Long shot

  Forum post by ipt8 on 29 Dec 2005

  Maybe a winter flowering cherry but I cannot think of the name. It is a tree and not a shrub or climber I assume? Read more..

• Re: Deer!

  Forum post by ipt8 on 18 Dec 2005

  I know keepers used to use diesel soakeg rags for foxes. Read more..

• Re: Birch - will curved trunk straighten?

  Forum post by ipt8 on 21 Nov 2005

  If you are not happy change it, I doubt it will straighten unless it is just very pliable and in need of support. Ivor Read more..

• Re: RHS Bicentenary Glasshouse

  Forum post by ipt8 on 21 Nov 2005

  I gather the glass is laminated, very tough but not that thick and they can bend it! Ivor Read more..

• Re: Japanese Knotweed

  Forum post by ipt8 on 21 Nov 2005

  Keep spraying with Roundup. Buy your Roundup from an agricultural supplier, I have a feeling it is a stronger solution than that at garden centres. If I remember correctly a litre costs up to £20 and I used it at the recomended strength for tree stump control. Bruise it and spray it. Read more..

• Re: Dead Tree

  Forum post by ipt8 on 21 Nov 2005

  Hi Honey fungus is identified by its bootlaces under the bark of an infected tree. I guess that is what you have, but I do not know if it affects Magnolias. At this time of the year you may see the small clusters of honey coloured toadstools at the base of the tree or on the ground nearby where they are coming up from the rooots, except I expect the frost has now done for them. The toadstools are the fruiting bodies. The disease spreads through the roots and can affect other roots that they touch Read more..

• Re: Poly Tunnel

  Forum post by ipt8 on 21 Nov 2005

  Hi I bought a polytunnel early summer and gre tomatoes, sweet peppers, cucumbers and a little salad leaf, the pick and come again type, oh and some carrots that are picked small. I am not doing much for the winter but am trying some winter white lisbon spring onions. I can recomend the Allotments 4 All web site where you will find a very friendly and helpful bunch of people. The site has posts every day and covers a wide range of subjects. Regards Ivor Read more..

• Re: walnuts - will they ripen

  Forum post by ipt8 on 17 Aug 2005

  I should clarify, I am asking whether the PICKED walnuts will ripen. The removing of the lower limbs is a bye the way. The reason for this is to stop squirrels jumping either up off the ground or from nearby fence posts onto the tree. They will climb up the stem you say. Well not so long back I was reading in one of the trade Forestry journals of an experiment where old grow tubes are taped around the trunk of the tree and the person experimenting has found that the squirrels find them too slippery Read more..

• walnuts - will they ripen

  Forum post by ipt8 on 17 Aug 2005

  I am battling with squirels who are taking walnuts from a mature tree. In the process I have removed some lower limbs from which I have taken the walnuts. I have checked and walnuts have developed inside. The question is, will they ripen? What is the best way to deal with them now? Ideas please. I have a plan for the tree but am not sure what to do with the walnuts I have picked. There are about two bucket fulls. Read more..

• Re: COMPOSTERS

  Forum post by ipt8 on 10 Aug 2005

  Any vegetable waste that you peel or trim before cooking, most garden waste except things like seeding nettles, the addition of well cut up hedgeclippings helps to stop grasscuttings going yuk, but not too thick so they will take an age to compost. Generally a good mix of things is best. Read more..