On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:46:06 GMT, Baz wrote:

Jake wrote in
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I love it, Baz, when all I can see above your message is "[QUOTED
TEXT]".


Cheers, Jake
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Urgling happily from the east end of the temporarily damp
but still sunny Swansea Bay.

Jake, I don't understand what you mean.
Is it the way I post? a newsreader problem?

I usually snip out any other items within a reply.

Baz

BTW have you had that plum tree delivered yet?

Sorry, Baz. You were replying to a post by the nameless one but I've
now got my newsreader configured so that whilst I can read your reply
to him, his bit is replaced with "[QUOTED TEXT]" and I don't have to
read that.

The plum tree is planted and leaf buds are already starting to open.
It's about 5 feet tall (I wanted a dwarf) but time will tell how big
it grows. Now I have to learn something about plum trees. I've read
somewhere that we shouldn't allow fruit to develop in the first year
after planting. With apples and pears, they've never fruited in the
first year so nowt to worry about and in the second year they tend to
self-drop down to a level of fruit which the tree can sustain. So I'm
guessing that plums behave differently. But do I yank off any flower
buds or is it remove flowers as they open or do I allow the flowers to
do their bit and then remove them as they fade?

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling from the hardly damp east end of Swansea Bay.