Yes I like gardening. I grow vegetables (not very successfully this year) and am getting more interested in flowers. The best thing in my garden is my Asparagus bed. Unfortunately this year we've just returned from 2 weeks in Mallorca, so it is finished for this year as it grew too much while we were away. At least next year it will be stronger as a result.
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Onions are growing well with some almost ready to harvest. My first attempt
White - Japanese variety . I grow whatever ChatGpt advises are best (easiest). Just learning still reallyRed or white ? I love red onion
Both, but the badgers have been rolling in them, they're only just recovering. Nobody here grows sweetcorn any more because the badgers wait until they're ripe then eat them.Red or white ? I love red onion
The 'Robin Hood' Oak in Sherwood Forest seems to have died.
www.bbc.co.uk
RIP a piece of wonderful Natural History.
Climate change may have just proven too much for the ancient tree to cope with. It produced no leaves this year for the first time.
Major Oak: Ancient 'Robin Hood' tree is dead, experts say
The Major Oak is thought to have stood for more than 1,000 years in the heart of Nottinghamshire's Sherwood Forest.
www.bbc.co.uk
RIP a piece of wonderful Natural History.
Climate change may have just proven too much for the ancient tree to cope with. It produced no leaves this year for the first time.
I think the Navy is using newfangled ironclads these days.
Though the frames may still be timber.
It may have just have reached the end of its natural life.The 'Robin Hood' Oak in Sherwood Forest seems to have died.
Major Oak: Ancient 'Robin Hood' tree is dead, experts say
The Major Oak is thought to have stood for more than 1,000 years in the heart of Nottinghamshire's Sherwood Forest.
RIP a piece of wonderful Natural History.
Climate change may have just proven too much for the ancient tree to cope with. It produced no leaves this year for the first time.
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No, it’s clearly down to climate change, nothing to do with it being about 1,200 years old or a load of knobheads climbing on it and ripping the remaining bark off.It may have just have reached the end of its natural life.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
It’s great that many, many saplings have been grown and planted from it. So it’s really not dead at all - it lives on in its offspring, which is the best any of us can ever do. Some of those saplings will undoubtedly grow and mature and will still be growing for centuries after every living human or animal currently on the planet has gone. Well done to all those who have helped to allow that process to happen.
Nobody here has said the death of this tree is 'clearly' down to anything.
A number of hot dry Summers might have been a factor. Then again maybe not. We will never know.
Trees and most other plants do have the wonderful ability to be 'cloned' by having cuttings or saplings grown from them, as well as by setting seeds.
It's probably a good thing that Human beings cannot snip off small parts of themselves
plant them in the ground and grow a duplicate.
A number of hot dry Summers might have been a factor. Then again maybe not. We will never know.
Trees and most other plants do have the wonderful ability to be 'cloned' by having cuttings or saplings grown from them, as well as by setting seeds.
It's probably a good thing that Human beings cannot snip off small parts of themselves
plant them in the ground and grow a duplicate.
It’s a shame for humanity that Borris attempted this by having so many bloody kidsNobody here has said the death of this tree is 'clearly' down to anything.
A number of hot dry Summers might have been a factor. Then again maybe not. We will never know.
Trees and most other plants do have the wonderful ability to be 'cloned' by having cuttings or saplings grown from them, as well as by setting seeds.
It's probably a good thing that Human beings cannot snip off small parts of themselves
Unfortunately we are moving closer to that very prospect and one day we will indeed be able to produce human clones. Probably scientifically possible already, but the ethical debate will take longer to resolve.Nobody here has said the death of this tree is 'clearly' down to anything.
A number of hot dry Summers might have been a factor. Then again maybe not. We will never know.
Trees and most other plants do have the wonderful ability to be 'cloned' by having cuttings or saplings grown from them, as well as by setting seeds.
It's probably a good thing that Human beings cannot snip off small parts of themselves
Tree specialists have been trying to save the tree for a few years now. It's a combination of old age, climate change and root damage caused by compacted soil due to so many people wanting to touch it.
Whenever the cat has a siesta in the garden a wren sits on a tree with its alarm call going. For such a tiny bird they make a helluva racket.
Have you nicknamed it Elfs?
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What the pussy?Have you nicknamed it Elfs?
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Have you nicknamed it Elfs?
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Hopefully an end to the UK’s ridiculous and meaningless ‘net zero’ drive under Labour and Sir Kier.
Open up those bloody oil fields and coal mines, build some nuclear reactors, invest heavily in tidal and let’s become self- sufficient for our energy needs.
Open up those bloody oil fields and coal mines, build some nuclear reactors, invest heavily in tidal and let’s become self- sufficient for our energy needs.