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Guernsey Donkey2
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I am fairly new to this forum and am learning so much from such a helpful group of people - thank you to everyone of you who has shared your knowledge and given me some great ideas, inspiration and advice. I would like to ask whether you live in the town or country - by the sea or inland, in the u.k. or somewhere exotic etc...as it would help me to get a picture of your surroundings when reading your comments. You don't have to be too specific about your exact location but I think you all know where I live!
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Surrounded by agricultural desert and gravel pits GD
I have a 2 acre oasis of sanity.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Sheffield / Derbyshire border.
About 600 feet up, at bottom of the moors.
About 0.5 acre.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Do you live in Guernsey then GD? ...
Around 400 feet up, about ten miles south of Glasgow. West central belt of Scotland.
Now back in a small garden again ( about 10m x 7m, near farmland, but residential ) which was all slabs and gravel when I moved in three years ago.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A small garden in a village on the edge of Norwich, with a Nature Reserve, river and marshes just over the hill.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A short hop from Brighton, so south coast. My garden is sheltered and only sunny until around 6pm in the summer sadly. It's small, narrower then Fairygirls. My very new allotment is super sunny but very exposed.
Sunny inland Suffolk.
We're usually having a drought, spending hours watering things and worrying about hosepipe bans when everybody else is complaining about too much rain
Soil is either heavy clay or hungry and thin depending on which part of the garden you stand in.
Lots of compost used every year to try to improve matters on all fronts.
West edge of Dartmoor.
10 miles from the Atlantic in N. Devon. 750 feet up. Close enough to get salt spray on windows during storms.
V lucky to have just under 8 acres including 1acre lake, 4 acre newish woodland and a huge amount of grass to cut. Heavy clay .
2 Polytunnels too to keep me out of mischief when it's raining ( a lot here in Devon )
Should have said, 960' up. Acid soil. 3 greenhouses and a few well nailed down plastic ones.