Canadian politics: red, Liberal party (center); blue, Conservative party (right); orange, New Democrat party (left); green, Green party (was kinda conservative, then had a meltdown around identity politics); BQ are kind of French separatists.

Aren’t you worried you’re going to start attracting swingers with that thing in your window?

Is that a new name for Reddit: Chatbot Arena?

IMO it’s tennis for Boomers who can’t hack tennis anymore.

Australia: punching way above its weight class.

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It’s the Vegemite, I’m sure of it.

Too much nitrogen for the carrots?

I’ll gladly scrap mine and revert to walking and a wheelbarrow if it gets us out of this mess.

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Yeah, that’s about right. When I look at the moon, there’s a second slightly dimmer moon above it that overlaps by about a third. Lights at night are a cluster fuck; I can’t tell a low bed trailer from a standard box trailer. The doubling of the tail lights on a low bed look like the second set of upper lights on a box trailer. I have a hard time focusing in low light. Also, my brain can’t render 3D without my glasses.

Where’s the old Mercedes Turbodiesel? That shit is still running.

It’s impossible to remove.

Disdain.

Jack & Diane, by John Mellencamp

It looks like it got punished by lack of water. Keep it well watered and see what comes back. You really can’t leave a potted tree unwatered for more than a few days. In hot weather you pretty well need to water them daily.

I’m not sure about the white fungus. There’s a chance that your trees root system or vascular system has been destroyed by a fungus, but they don’t usually present like this. Given what you said about not watering it I think that’s the most likely problem.

I mean, Mademoiselle Cochonne would be her own special kind of lady.

Always prune off dead, damaged, and diseased wood. Start there. Then prune stray and inward-facing branches. By stray I mean any stupid growth, like a little twig growing out of the trunk 8" from the ground. As for the inward-facing stuff, you don’t want a thicket of interlacing branches in the middle of the tree. Prune most of it out. Also prune out anything that’s growing very vertically through other branches.

That’s bare maintenance. After that you’re pruning for form for the kind of tree it is and the kind of tree you want.

From the photo it looks like you mostly need to clear out some of the inward-facing branches. (EDIT: nevermind, it’s too hard to tell from your picture.)

The maintenance prune would probably be fine, but I wouldn’t do a hard prune at this time of year. Traditionally, you do your hard pruning during the dormant season, but there’s starting to be more advice that a mid-Summer prune is also good.

I think the reason Google isn’t helping is because the pruning advice very much depends on the age of the apple, what your goal is, and what kind of apple it is.

There’s a big difference between sabre and longsword cutting techniques though, no? From what I’ve seen sabre fights just look like crazy slashing contests.

They’re naked seeds. I get you.

Sure. And thanks for questioning me. It looks like the conventional wisdom may be rooted in something, but likely not allelopathy.

https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/403/2015/03/aleopathic-wood-chips.pdf

Sounds like it’ll mess with insects, bacteria, and fungus, but it’s likely not chemically allelopathic. Also, plant life is certainly repressed near living redcedars, but that’s likely due to something else like low light.

Western redcedar (Thuja plicata, I’m pretty sure)?

I don’t want to be a downer, but if it is you might be in trouble. Redcedar is allelopathic, meaning it contains chemicals that kill other plants. It would make a great suppressive landscape mulch, but a bad garden mulch.