Definition of disaffected in English:adjective

Dissatisfied, especially with people in authority or a system of control:

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2026

• July 26th: Noticed that many figs are missing form the smaller tree, all the large one must have ripened when I went away for a few days. Found one under a leave that the birds had missed.
• May 16th: First broad beans
• May 12th: First strawberry: However there is oly the odd one or two unripe-ish that I tend to eat every few days before the slugs get them.

2025

• May 13th: First strawberry and Last carrot
• May 19th: First broad beans
• June 8th: Made bread from home wheat, maize, masa and a little spelt from 2020 �
  
• June 12th: Eating bread and lettuce, with some Essential PButter and Broad beans in the evening.
• July 4th: Some decent sized blackcurrants from the bush at the front of the cabin.
  

  

• July 6th: Wasn't quite expecting some climbing beans to be ready, and variety
  

  

• July 31st: First 2 figs: Sept. 10th Last Fig
• Sept. 5thLast plum
• Sept. 25th Harvested last maize, most needed the removal of black and rotten kernels, but have twelve edible.
• Sept. 25th Most of the pears on the nearest tree were gone by the end of August and now the other pear tree is bare.
• Sept. 25th A few runner beans still going but on there last legs.

I am not a nut though U may be 1 or is that U R

I am def crazy and weird but not a nut. The worry is, Am I invasive?

This is an update on a conversation about a plant I consider invasive that I allowed to be dumped in the triangle field some 14/15 years ago.

It was waste from what was then Helen and Gavin's residence in Rowse Gardens.

Early on I could see how virile it was and had to cut it down as other vegetation decayed. What I was unaware of was it's underground root system. So although I regularly mow the land in it's area, the virle rooting undermines my attempts to curtail it.

The recent discussion was that Gavin thought the young shoots were hazel - Gavin's last words on the subject - so today I thought I would try and clarify the issue.

I dug up a couple of young hazel, and as you may imagine they have a single tap root that comes form the nut: Image below shows to of different age

The other plant show how each piece is broken off a larger root. Hazel do not propagate this way.

What is noticeable is the similarity of the leaves when they are small, but hazel leaves broaden as they