Gardening question for you sages

[Southerndown]

My strawberries are still flowering and producing fruit, wasn't expecting it, how long will this go on for?
I just took a plant from my mother's garden last year and just stuck it in a pot and left it to it's own devices, not done a thing with it. To be fair to the little bu99er it's spread into about 5 or 6 other nearby pots and taken them over, just wasn't expecting them to go on flowering into the winter.

[Corkhead]

Take the flowers off lovely boy - they will not produce good fruit now and pinching them off will strengthen the plant and increase its productive life (3/4 years). Take the runners off as well and put in new pots of compost. Then plant them out next year as separate plants.

Ahhhrrrr! You 'eard it furst on Corky's Compost Corner.

[chiswickmart]

Has anyone else ever had to go through the process of obtaining Council permission to trim a tree with a TPO on it?

Today I even produced a powerpoint presentation to help support the cause of lopping one large branch off an Oak!!

Are all people who work for the Council, ****ers?

[bluechimes]

Chis breaks into singing that Monty Python favourite

I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK
etc etc

Wasn't there also a comedy song about trees

" Woodman Woodman spare that tree" - "For Me"

BC

[Scoular1]

More like "I talk to the trees,that's why they took me away"

[Southerndown]

Has anyone else ever had to go through the process of obtaining Council permission to trim a tree with a TPO on it?

Today I even produced a powerpoint presentation to help support the cause of lopping one large branch off an Oak!!

Are all people who work for the Council, ****ers?

I bought my first flat in London, when we came to move it became evident that there was a problem due to a TPO on a tree to the back of the property. To cut a very long story short, there was a piece of land at the back of the flats which should have been allocated for parking spaces but the developer had sold off the land separately. The person who bought the land subsequently found out they were unable to build on it due to this TPO.
We only found out about it when we came to sell, as the piece of land had been sold off there was now a breach of planning on our property.
Meetings with the council and various solicitors were the most