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tahir



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PostPosted: Tue May 05, 15 9:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

As TD knows we have lost a lot of sweet chestnut (French imports of named cvultivars) to p ramorum, but this was after 2 wet winters that turned very cold follwed by hot dry summers.

Our two nearest woods have a lot of chestnut in them so the FC officer wasn't too worried about us planting again.

We do control for squirrels so maybe that's why we don't see much damage?

 
Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
PostPosted: Tue May 05, 15 4:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I didn't know or I forgot you had p ramorum. I'm not worried about spreading it around as it seems to be nation wide now, rather questioning if it's worth planting sweet chestnut as they'll be killed off quickly.

 
tahir



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PostPosted: Tue May 05, 15 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Well, teh FC woman reckons they'll be fine. She should know better than me

 
Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Wed May 06, 15 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We don't seem to have P ramorum problems in sweet chestnut in central southern England at the moment as far as I know. We do have a reasonable number of well established coppice chestnut woods. If you lose the leader on an oak tree and are able to select another one within a few years, by the time the oak is felled in 150 years time or more, you probably won't even notice the kink. I take the point about squirrels though; they are very destructive. They are at their worst for bark stripping in the spring and it seems to be young males and when there is high density that the worst occurs. We get trouble some years and not others, depending on weather and buzzards I think.

 
dpack



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PostPosted: Wed May 06, 15 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

squizzers are delicious.

 
Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 15 6:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

If we could manage to shoot a few, I would certainly try to cook them.

 
dpack



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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 15 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mistress Rose wrote:
If we could manage to shoot a few, I would certainly try to cook them.


peanut butter bait station with a decent backstop

bbq young ones

stew or pie older ones

better than bunny imho

 
Pel



Joined: 29 Mar 2008
Posts: 2366
Location: Sennybridge
PostPosted: Thu May 07, 15 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

we had a woodland bio-security seminar today, found out about plant tracker https://planttracker.naturelocator.org/ and Tree alert (FC). Plant tracker, apparently also tells you what you already have in your area, and you can add new sightings too it.

 
Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Fri May 08, 15 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I went to a bio-security seminiar on woodlands the August before last, run by the Forestry Commission. Don't think there will be much more because of the cuts sadly. It was very interesting, but could easily make you paranoid.

Useful to go to the seminar Pel. Who was it run by?

 
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