On The Move

[eskymo]

We've bought bigger house in Kinghorn and so will be moving away from the lovely Aberdour in May. Will be very sad to leave this place and the garden I've put so much love into.

Got a new garden to deal with now and it's completely overgrown with ladies mantle and covered in bark chippings... so lots to do. This means that yet again I won't have a greenhouse for the entire growing season if at all and also won't have a vegetable plot established and so will be looking for lots of tips and advice as of May as to what to do.

My lovely new greenhouse will probably get sold along with this house...I've only had it for 6 months! It's not fair as I'd saved up for years to buy it! And now I'll probably have to leave it behind and cope without one again!

[Winged one]

Why don't you just say to the auctioneers that it is not part of the fixtures and fittings and that you'll be taking it with you. Once that is clear up front, I don't think there is any problem with that.

[Birdie Wife]

Hi Eskymo, haven't seen you on here for a wee while so I thought i'd say hi! If you can't take your greenhouse with you, hopefully the next owner will be inspired to grow some tomatoes and get hooked on veg, if they aren't already! How are you doing?

[eskymo]

We thought of that, then also thought of the nightmare of taking it down and so decided to leave it as a negotiable element within the sale so that if someone wanted it they could negotiate a price for it...which would mean we could go and buy a new one, but then by the time it took us to do that no doubt summer will be over.

Maybe no-one will want it and so I don't need to worry about it.

[eskymo]

Hey BW - I'm fine. Got the final stress of getting plastered walls painted in the kitchen...been waiting for ages for the plaster to cure. I think we might start the first viewings tomorrow and so I've been painting on and off since dawn! I'm knackered as I was up late celebrating last night so also had a hangover to contend with!

I'm hoping the the veg plot / greenhouse part of the garden would really appeal to someone as it's a ready made mini allotment and so adds value to the house. When we first looked at this place the garden was one big gravel pit with a tiny veg plot and loads of weeds everywhere...it was a nightmare but I saw what I could do with it.

[Birdie Wife]

It must be difficult leaving somewhere you've invested so much time and effort into - i hope you find a buyer who recognises the bonus of having a cultivated plot

[eskymo]

I hope so too as I'd hate someone to move in a concrete over the lot or just lay a grass lawn or something. Or alternatively someone who isn't into gardening at all! We will most probably go for the highest offer we get on the flat, but if we get a few [hopefully we will] we will definitely side with people who are going to use the garden to it's best potential.

Not had any phone calls for viewings yet...hopefully we'll get someone interested soon.

[TonyF]

When we moved here I left both my greenhouses and both my sheds in our old garden - don't miss the sheds cos I now have my chalet but the greenhouses I really miss, especially as I'd built all the furniture for them myself.

Still, I get to use my chum's greenhouses now so still get my fix, like working in them all day yesterday

[bobleponge]

Eskimo
We are in the process of trying to move too.
We have found the house of our absolute dreams, everything we want, and best of all I will have an acre field all to myself for gardening in.
My plot now at home is just coming to the state I wanted it to be, and I will be gutted to leave it all, but will have a complete blank canvas to start afresh.
We are currently busy taking as many cuttings off as many things as possible to try and make sure that we get ourselves off to a good start.
Good luck with your move, hope you get some buyers soon and the veggie lovers get a great garden.
I am however, no matter what, taking my greenhouse with me!!!!!

[eskymo]

I've been digging up plants - naughty me! Some were gifts as we got a lot of garden vouchers for Christmas last year and we bought tons of evergreens and I only planted them out at the end of the summer and so I've dug them up and put them in pots to take with us - is that bad??? I've also been taking tons of cuttings - my greenhouse is now full of small pots of oregano / marjoram / lemon balm as well as load of sedums and ground hogging plants that are easy to take cuttings from. I've also just planted all my chilli seeds and now have no room left. I also dug up 2 of my comfrey plants and bunged them in a bucket - can't be without them.

I'd also love to dig up my bamboo plant but guess that's pushing it a bit far as it's huge. I'm going to leave a note for the people who buy the flat once we move saying that if they ever decided to dig it up and get rid of it, then I'd happily come round and dig it up and take it away.

There were also jerusalem artichokes and potatoes to dig up that should have been dug up at the end of last year - got a whole bucket load! I really don't want to leave my garden...it's taken me three years to get it the way I want it and now I'm going ot have to start ALL OVER AGAIN! It's sad, but I'm also excited as to what I can do with the new garden. I can't really remember what it's like apart from very brown as it just seemed to be covered with bark chippings.

I need advice as to what plants are good for a garden on a cliff overlooking the sea - as that's what I'm getting!

[smallblueplanet]

You can take away what you like - just that when you find buyers you must tell them what you're taking. That shouldn't be a problem unless you're taking something fundemental?

[Birdie Wife]

It's not at all naught Eskymo, I did exactly the same thing when I moved! I spent quite a lot of money on plants at the old house and I even took my onion sets and garlic that was sprouting. I'm glad I did, too, because when I went back, I found that the landlord had sprayed off whatever was left and it had all died

[eskymo]

Wish I could dig up our big apple trees! but that would be really really naughty!!! Well I'm really tempted to dig up the bamboo plant now...it's at that stage where soon I'll be able to chop actual bamboo sticks off it - it just needs another year or so, but there are some nice thick stems there. My OH thinks we should just leave it...I'm going to work on him and get him to change his mind.

[Winged one]

Well, particularly as you haven't had any viewings yet and they are already in pots, that should be fine. Pots are not permenant fixtures and fittings. And once you tell the agent to let the viewers know (or even once it reaches negotiations with solicitors) what you will be taking with you, that's fine. I know people who moved to find that the huge garden shed that they asumed was part of the fixtures had been removed, as well as all of the plants in the back garden (none of it notified). We took a lot of plants when we moved, but dug them into pots before the viewings like you, and told the agent that anything in pots was coming with us. I wanted to bring our (still only small) fruiting cherry tree, but OH wouldn't so I had to leave it behind. -