The damage to the apple tree might actually encourage it to fruit. My dad had one that just wouldn't fruit for years until the power company hit it with a cherry picker. It split the tree down the middle to about a foot and a half short of the ground, it had a years healing and the following year it bore loads of apples (didn't weight them but there were enough to make 6 gallons of scrumpy). It hasn't failed to fruit since! We're assuming it was too pampered before and needed a bit of stress!
Neat! We'll see in a few years if mine does the same. But I suspect I will have to take down a few of the surrounding trees, before it gets enough sunlight.
We don't get many actual mosquitoes here in Scotland, we've got midgies instead. They're arguably worse, although they're not known to spread disease the same as mozzies, the bite is instantly itchy and painful as they lack the anaesthetic protein sialorphin which gives mosquitoes time to feed and f**k off before you notice the bite! If you look for a "midgie net" specifically, they tend to be a finer mesh than a mosquito net and should be able to keep the buggers out!
We have both in Norway, and technically it's the midges that break me while outdoors. The mosquitos are mostly annoying after the fact, large swells and itching yourself bloody.
I will have a look for that midgie-net though, or it's late in the season now..So I'm probably going to forget about it, and curse myself for not listening to Eddie next spring..
Man, I hate cutting windblown trees but it really is satisfying when you get it cleared out without any crushing surprises!
Aye! Then it's just the problem of what to do with the stumps?
@@JKKnudsen Yeah, I'm quite grateful that was always the next guy's job!
@@EddieTheH Lucky! Bet he had one of the chippers as well
The damage to the apple tree might actually encourage it to fruit. My dad had one that just wouldn't fruit for years until the power company hit it with a cherry picker. It split the tree down the middle to about a foot and a half short of the ground, it had a years healing and the following year it bore loads of apples (didn't weight them but there were enough to make 6 gallons of scrumpy). It hasn't failed to fruit since! We're assuming it was too pampered before and needed a bit of stress!
Neat! We'll see in a few years if mine does the same. But I suspect I will have to take down a few of the surrounding trees, before it gets enough sunlight.
@@JKKnudsen Yeah, it does look pretty shaded there.
We don't get many actual mosquitoes here in Scotland, we've got midgies instead. They're arguably worse, although they're not known to spread disease the same as mozzies, the bite is instantly itchy and painful as they lack the anaesthetic protein sialorphin which gives mosquitoes time to feed and f**k off before you notice the bite! If you look for a "midgie net" specifically, they tend to be a finer mesh than a mosquito net and should be able to keep the buggers out!
We have both in Norway, and technically it's the midges that break me while outdoors. The mosquitos are mostly annoying after the fact, large swells and itching yourself bloody.
I will have a look for that midgie-net though, or it's late in the season now..So I'm probably going to forget about it, and curse myself for not listening to Eddie next spring..