Hi from NE Scotland

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  1. burnie

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    Originally from Leicestershire, then South Derbyshire and Staffordshire, now living near the coast in Angus. Primarily a vegetable and fruit grower now re building and designing my garden for my retirement years. This is my first year growing just in raised beds and containers, new greenhouse due later, so that will be for next season now. I try not to use chemicals, preferring the organic approach to growing vegetables, primarily to eat fresh, so flavor is paramount. My wife is not a gardener, but likes flowers too, so they must have scent and be attractive to wildlife of the beneficial kind.
     
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    silu gardening easy...hmmm

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    Welcome to GC and to Scotland. I live in Fife. I expect you too are sweltering in the heat we have had for the last 2 weeks or so. Many of my Rhododendron and Azalea flowers are wilting in the heat and lack of rain. We didn't have any rain at all in May! I grow lots of veg more or less organically as I have a constant supply of horse manure which pretty well sorts out any fertilizer requirements. The only "chemical" I have used a bit of this year is slug/snail bate. They are much much worse than usual. I try to use as little as possible and husband isn't too impressed as I swiped his last 2 tins of beer the other day to make beer traps:). I got my last (getting old!) new greenhouse a couple of years ago (20ftx8ft). It wasn't cheap but wasn't the most expensive either. I am extremely pleased with it. It stood up to the fierce gales we had at the beginning of the year a lot better than some of my huge trees sadly. If you would like to know the make of the 1 I got (built for me by the Scottish rep who lives quite close to me and not far from you) just pm me. The person who built it will also build any make of greenhouse and did me a beautiful job. I did the levelling and slab work myself but expect he'd do that too if you so wished.
     
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    Hi....welcome to GC

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    Hello and welcome to the forum :)
     
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    Thanks for the welcome all, oh and thanks for the info on the greenhouse silu(thanks for the welcome to Scotland too, though I have lived here for just over 13 years now, daughter married a lad from Perth and we followed them north a year or so later.)
     
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    Welcome to Gardeners Corner Burnie. :)
     
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    Hi Burnie,

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    Welcome to Gardeners Corner :)
     
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    Thanks for the welcome folks
     
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      Hi Burnie, welcome to Gardeners Corner:thumbsup::snorky:
       
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      Thanks Armandii
       
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