yip lucky that way would you move back PixieKnuckles
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In a heartbeat. The winters were rough when the ferries didn’t run, but yes, I would. I go back in Summer (or did, pre pandemic) just to explore. Always an islander at heart 
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Dont want to high jack thread my uncle used to say it was like a magnet pulling your heart back to arran and when you left youd end up going back anyways back to work coffee break over 
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Remind me where in Scotland do you live? Where we lived was the Braes of Angus. Cold in the winter. My father was from the Outer Hebrides. It was fairly mild there because of the Gulf Stream.
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I’m on the West Coast of Scotland, Besoeker. Not far from Glasgow. I used to live up in Moray when I was younger. It was wild weather up there, but down here we are in the Gulf Stream.
Ah, OK. I used to Glasgow regularly but only to one spot - Cathcart on business.
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Yes quite a bit of it, both in and out of the greenhouse. I have a Kitchen Garden with Tatties, Beets, Peas, Carrots, Onions, Lettuce, Chives and Spinach.
Tomatoes and Cucumber in the greenhouse and Wild Strawberries, they should be outside but I have to battle the birds for them.
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I was going to ask others who did strawberries about this. My mom had a tiny strawberry plant that she grew inside, but it needed a bit more sun, so she took it outside. The birds got to it before anyone even noticed.
How do people keep the birds and other critters away from the fruit?
I do not grow fruit, but to keep pesky birds from pooping down the windows ( a constant previous problem) I bought two very life-like imitation falcons. I fixed one to the main roof with the other to the roof of my music workshop and our windows are now bird effect free.
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You put a netting over them so the birds don’t get to it.
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Simples… 
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We used to when OH was able & loved the garden. We had raised beds & the greenhouse was stuffed full. Now everything is sadly neglected.
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Yes I cover it all with netting, pegged down into the ground. Also the dog is good at lying out the back and he sees them off.
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Hi
I grow loads, in raised beds using the square foot method.
My potatoes I grow in bags, very cheap.
I also have a polytunnel and two herb beds.
I reuse the compost on the flowerbeds, they need it because it is very heavy clay.
Peat free compost, growmore and fish, blood and bone in the spring.
I compost down chicken manure, which is free around here, with sheep droppings and use that as a liquid feed.
It works.
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I’ve only ever grown toms and strawberries from scratch, but don’t grow anything now.
A few houses ago, I inherited such a wonderful garden. It was full of fruits - rhubarb, gooseberries, black/red/white currant bushes, plum, apple and pear trees.
It was a happy time with all that that garden offered, as I was into baking and making jams. Oh, those were the days 
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We grow a fair amount, certainly going to upt that next season,
Many people have veggies plots and they grow loads and I feel I missing out.
Potatoes were good but ended up with no enough…Toms would not grow from seeds at all this year…Tried several types…one cherry tomato grew and tastes good, just the size of a pea though…
Weather this past spring time was a let down for growing seeds in general…Will have another go and hopefully one day get that blimmin greenhouse erected…greenhouse is a swearword in this house at the moment .
When we were in our last UK property, husband decided to try growing some runner beans in doors…had a front conservatory, weird it was…anyway it took off as the room had lots of Sun…only greenage though grew…as it took over all the windows we started getting condensation, experiment a failure…
see where the door is… 
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at least a 1 metre drop if you open the Conservatory Door…
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Swimmy…a shop in town is selling large bags of compost for half price…would it be viable to take advantage of the bargain and keep it until the Spring? It would be fine wouldn’t it? Providing I kept it dry.
Hi
Absolutely Pixie.
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Thank you! 