PPB - Keeping Potential Problems at Bay

[sorce]

Ok, some of you know I ran with this PPB, or "keeping potential problems at bay" to try and make it a thing, like HBR(half bare root), since it is so important.

Hmm, sucks you can't search HBR or PPB...
Here's some back story.
http://www.bonsainut.com/search/6949423/?q=potential+problems+wood&o=date&c[user][0]=12599

I realized I have only been considering this in terms of design problems, but I guess it is just as usefully applied to any other problem as well, be it pests, extreme weather, etc.


So what are your problems?

Let's explore it.

If they are all listed, we can avoid them!

Please, I want to hear everything from the best bungee cord to use 11 stories up, or an odd potential problem with a tree no one else has used, from Mugo Knuckles to earthquakes, trident shaped eyesore branches to Hurricanes from Neptune's Trident....

Thanks

Sorce

 

[cbroad]

My problem? Stepping in dog shit from my neighbor's dogs when I'm walking around looking at my plants on MY PROPERTY... maybe that should be in a different forum all together

 

[cbroad]

Seriously though, Inch Worms (canker worms) in early spring. My trees get ravished by them every year. I started by hand picking them and throwing them far away but they're so numerous, that would be a all day/every day long project. A product called Tangle Foot works pretty well. Last year I used Bayers tree and shrub systemic, worked so well, I used it in the morning before work and came home and couldn't find a single one on any of my trees. Just don't use that stuff on flowering trees.

 

[M. Frary]

My problem? Stepping in dog shit from my neighbor's dogs when I'm walking around looking at my plants on MY PROPERTY... maybe that should be in a different forum all together

I trained my dog to not poop in our yard in order to keep that potential problem at bay.
Too bad that not in my yard happens to be in the neighbors to him.

 

[sorce]

Sorry I missed these.

Or this.

I guess we have it all figured out then?

I was hoping to have another thread to send Newbs to for information.

Please!

Sorce

 

[just.wing.it]

Sorry I missed these.

Or this.

I guess we have it all figured out then?

I was hoping to have another thread to send Newbs to for information.

Please!

Sorce

And they just had to go and start talking about poop again....there goes the thread

 

[sorce]

And they just had to go and start talking about poop again....there goes the thread

Had I made it a soil thread with a reference to Ares we would have already got to page 21.

Sorce

 

[M. Frary]

Ares

?

 

[sorce]

?

Sorce

 

[Gregory DeNinno]

Buying too many trees. Although, I have so many that my wife can no longer tell (or care) when I add a few more to the "forest".

 

[M. Frary]

It's spelled differently than I've seen before.
I've always seen it spelled Aries.
And the Roman's called him Mars.

 

[Gregory DeNinno]

It's spelled differently than I've seen before.
I've always seen it spelled Aries.
And the Roman's called him Mars.

Spelled "Ares" is also the program name for NASA's next generation heavy lift rocket. 3..2..1.. blast off...

 

[sorce]

Spelled "Ares" is also the program name for NASA's next generation heavy lift rocket. 3..2..1.. blast off...

To put those death rod dropping stations in orbit?

"We Are so screwed"

Sorce

 

[M. Frary]

death rod

Sounds like a horror-porno B movie title.

 

[sorce]

Or a really really fast car!

Sorce

 

[M. Frary]

Or a really really fast car!

Sorce

Poorly assembled.

 

[quietobserver]

To put those death rod dropping stations in orbit?

"We Are so screwed"

Sorce

No there's some good conspiracy discussion....tungsten kinetic energy weapons

 

[sorce]

Poorly assembled.

GM or VW?

An Ass Driver.

One of many.....many.....Ass drivers.

Sorce

 

[Gregory DeNinno]

To put those death rod dropping stations in orbit?

"We Are so screwed"

Sorce

I've got a spare tinfoil hat if you need one

 

[cbroad]

I trained my dog to not poop in our yard in order to keep that potential problem at bay.
Too bad that not in my yard happens to be in the neighbors to him.

I didn't know we were neighbors, we could've been hanging out a while ago , one question though, why do you have a fenced in back yard but let your dogs roam in mine? I guess I'll continue launching your dogs' shit over the fence, sorry for the stains on the siding...