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if you can then compost the manure first then dig it in underneath beofre you plant the tree. alsp, a word of warning, if you have wormed your horse recently then the broad spectrum vermifuge - (worm killer) is also fairly likely to knock off any earth wormis in that patch of ground - definitly not ...

Pruning it back quite strongly - maybe 1/4 -1/3 - at the right time of year can also force seedlings to fruit sooner. Try find a reference to back that though - i think i saw it in one of my John Seymour books but am not certain

not sure bout the differnt parts of the uk, but here in nz you can get fruit within about 4 years. just to note, there are at least 3 kinds of mulberries (types not cultivars - mite me untols numbers of those) there is the white mulberry that grows Uber fast - ours ahs been in 4?5? years and is well...

am pagan, not brittish, do wantch and enjoy the simpsons, still find this in very bad taste, largely because its ADVERTISING. and i HATE advertising particularly is it is ammerican invasive to my visual/aural/personal/WHU space. Rampent comercial conmerist culture painted oh so high, nasty stuff, it...

The effect that peak oil has will depend on people's (read societiey's) responce to it (wow big surprize i hear you say!). Whether there is a slow decline in oil use and a general addaption to a low energy society by the mundanes (Such as is happening in the transition town movement in the UK), or a...

ditto that - i abhor driving; the polution inefficiency and the stress - yet so many jobs require you to have a drivers licence. sigh.

Seconded, it would be great if you could get it into the Borders Bookshop line - they're round the world as far as i know . . .

Looks awsome - i'll have to add it to my library alongside Seymour and the Storeys! Do you know what distributer/s it will go to in New Zealand yet?

Hail and well met fellow back-to-the-landers! Im a Uni student in the northisland of New Zealand in the south pacific ocean :lol: I've been brought up on a home orchard lifestyle block and love the conection to the land and the abbundenc it provides. I look to the future with a curious mixture of an...