Thank you for your welcome Maeve. I was most interested in your posting. What type of apples have you in your orchard, cookers or eaters? Our one apple tree is a Bramley, with wonderful and enormous cooking apples. I made dozens of rhubarb and apple crumbles last autumn for the freezer! I have now got a greenhouse. I had one many years ago, and it will be super to have one again. My husband likes spicy food, and I'm hoping to research growing various peppers and chillis, also aubergines. It sounds as if you have a very large plot of land there. I will miss my little ride-on tractor/mower, but this garden is too small to need it. Another thing I'll miss is lighting bonfires in the chilly autumn evenings, and roasting potatoes in the embers. I don't think the neighbours would appreciate that here, it's too close to their boundaries. Stilly. what is 'floating row cover' please? Is raised netting a possibility? Or even a polytunnel?