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Hello members,

Thank you for your welcome.

Im home gardener since 2003.

I've kitchen garden and also cold-storage unit.

Im owner of Domaine Le Jardin des Patriotes, a private garden. I made many home and garden projects.

Hope share my tips here and learn with... you...

I speak french.... but i try to speak in english...
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Jardinier, my garden projects:

http://www.uk-gardening.co.uk
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Welcome jardinière!

Can I ask you to explain your 'cold storage unit'? Not heard that term before but expect it translates to something over here! (maybe) :?:

Won't ask about your weather as you have probably seen it isn't too great over here & we're too obsessed with our own abnormal weather pattern! :) Post some pics during the year - would be great to see how gardeners cope world wide & I'm sure you've learnt loads over the last decade which we may be able to exploit - OK borrow!

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I believe that most Canadians experience winters that would make our recent/current one look like a passing shower.
The frost reaches into the ground and many houses have a basement wherein it is relatively easy to construct an unheated room against the outer wall, insulated from the rest of the basement and with good ventilation to the outside, thus bringing in even more cold air.

So something between a traditional English pantry and a refrigerator.

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Dear Westi,
we would call such a place a root cellar. They also were used during the summer to store food to keep it cool especially things such as dairy products.
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Ahh got it! Thought it was some kind or mega fridge or cold room not just a nice chilled basement / cellar! Don't have a basement in my little Wimpy & not many have one in Aussie so forgive the complete inane question!

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Of course, some of us have an ice well... :)
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I have a cousin in Massachusetts on the East coast of America and I know she has to pack her gardening into a short space of time between spring snow and autumn snow! Says things grow like mad inbetween though. And she does lots of squashes. Guess we all learn to work with what we've got. So welcome Jardiniere.
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Sorry for my english.. friends.. i speak usually in french...

but i try....

we use also (canada): cold storage room ;)

And for the basement.. you got the right explanation ;)

Very friendly forum ;)

Nice Week end !
Jardinier, my garden projects:

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Incidentally Jardinier, Happy Thanksgiving Weekend in Canada this week-end!. That is one annual festival we British haven't yet borrowed from your side of the Atlantic, although Halloween seems to be well and truly in our annual calendar now.
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jardinier wrote:Hello members,
I speak french.... but i try to speak in english...


Respect for you're English Jardinier, 100% better than my French.

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Welcome to the forum, jardinier. We are a friendly lot and most questions get answered!
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welcome Jardiniere! I have been looking at your link to the photos of your greenhouse build. Absolutely brilliant!
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