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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue May 05, 15 9:36 am Post subject:
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
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Tue May 05, 15 4:21 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45669
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue May 05, 15 4:28 pm Post subject:
Well, teh FC woman reckons they'll be fine. She should know better than me

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15967

Posted: Wed May 06, 15 8:45 am Post subject:

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

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46211
Location: yes

Posted: Wed May 06, 15 5:27 pm Post subject:
squizzers are delicious.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15967

Posted: Thu May 07, 15 6:42 am Post subject:
If we could manage to shoot a few, I would certainly try to cook them.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46211
Location: yes

Posted: Thu May 07, 15 9:58 am Post subject:

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

Posted: Thu May 07, 15 3:24 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15967

Posted: Fri May 08, 15 6:17 am Post subject:
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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