"'Mike'" wrote in message
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Ophelia that is quite possible. I am in communication with people who read
this forum and because of the attitude/troublemakers/snobbery applied,
won't ever post. They just laugh at the antics of those who should know
better. However, considering that I know of only a 'few', and considering
that these postings are copied to Garden Banter, MUCH to the disgust, but
JOY for advertising purposes by one habitual poster, you must consider the
fact that the wealth of information spread to these two forums in
particular and .............. where else? then there must be sufficient
information to put into paper format to line someone's pocket ..........
and that COULD be someone, in the words of Semprini 'We all know and love
so well', in other words, someone who posts HERE.

Mike, What is 'quite possible'? Was it about the book?

I didn't post for a long time, but I have always been reading. Someone
brought here a post by me from another group and I felt the need to respond.
I am pleased now that I did, because I have been lucky enough to find Spider
who is guiding me through a lot of unknowns

I have always learned a lot from just reading here ... most recently the bit
about not removing leaves from the tomato plants! Unfortunately I had just
taken most of my leaves off, but I will never do it again! I have never
seen the in depth advice about my trees discussed though so I am indebted to
Spider for her kindness


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"Spider" wrote in message
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On 28/08/2014 10:10, Ophelia wrote:


"JD" wrote in message
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Spider wrote in
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When you do start pruning, you first need to cut out the three 'Ds':
dead, dying and diseased growth. Then any crossing growth, that is,
any inward-growing branches which spoil the shape of the tree and also
increase the possibilty of fungal disease due to restricting air
movement. Also cut out any branch which rubs on another and may cause
wounding, which will subsequently let in disease.

The other useful thing you could do is drop heavy hints for a good
pruning guide for Christmas. I recommend the RHS Pruning & Training
guide by Christopher Brickell & David Joyce. It's a Dorling Kindersley
publication, ISBN 1-4053-0073-6.

Hope that helps a bit.

It helps massively. Thank you, Spider! Apologies for the delayed reply.
Your advice told be a lot that I hadn't managed to find elswhere.

Thank you again!

Spider should write a book! I would buy it



Bless you for saying that, Ophelia, but I don't think it would fly off
the shelves. Anyway, whichever gremlin is behind GB and stealing URG's
knowledge is already writing it :~(.

Oh I noticed that my book has been despatched but ...

Your estimated delivery date is:
Saturday, August 30, 2014 -
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Fingers crossed it comes faster than September

What is 'GB'? Are you saying someone is writing a book with knowledge
gained from the posters here??



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