Happy New Year to you all, my updates are back for 2009 with a new Viewer's Gallery for fellow plot holders to share their photographs with the rest of us, at long last the very hard frosts have gone which has enabled us to get back onto the plots and ready them for the season ahead, the nights are getting lighter as well which always cheers us gardener's, regards Steve.
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Dear Steve, a first class write up as always.
I too love the sight of the potatoes chitting away, the thought of things to be.
I too love the sight of the potatoes chitting away, the thought of things to be.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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Hello Steve
As a relative newbie I shall look forward to reading your updates! All that space - I am VERY ENVIOUS
Thanks for sharing your photos and information. Well - thanks to everyone. It's what all use novices are here for!
As a relative newbie I shall look forward to reading your updates! All that space - I am VERY ENVIOUS
Thanks for sharing your photos and information. Well - thanks to everyone. It's what all use novices are here for!
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Thanks Old Herbaceous, yes I am looking forward to the season ahead and all the rewards that it will hopefuly bring, Steve.
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Hi Anne and thanks for your reply, yes I was lucky that when I took on my allotments we had vacancies and so I was able to get two full plots side by side, all the best for the season ahead, regards Steve.
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Thanks Steve.
I think I am going to go out and measure my 'plot' and see exactly how much growing space I have got - and then perhaps have a forum competition to see who else is growing on a postage stamp! Everyone seems to have so much space!
Might be fun.
I think I am going to go out and measure my 'plot' and see exactly how much growing space I have got - and then perhaps have a forum competition to see who else is growing on a postage stamp! Everyone seems to have so much space!
Might be fun.
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Dear Anne, i don't think you're the only one with a small plot, if that makes you feel any better.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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I enjoyed the write up and piccies Steve....lots of detail.
Very, very orderly!! I can just picture all the straight rows of veggies that will emerge once you really get going.
Have you never been in the army?
And a flat growing area too (as well as a big one!
).....mine garden is a seriously steep set up. I will try (but am not sure if I can do it), to work out the slope steepness.
Very, very orderly!! I can just picture all the straight rows of veggies that will emerge once you really get going.
Have you never been in the army?
And a flat growing area too (as well as a big one!
).....mine garden is a seriously steep set up. I will try (but am not sure if I can do it), to work out the slope steepness.Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food - Frank A. Clark.
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Thank you dear OH.
As the name of the game is to produce as much veg as the two of us need then it will be quite exciting to see how much can be done. Obviously we are already challenged on the major veg such as potatoes, onions and carrots, but I did manage to grow some decent crops of potatoes last year - despite the blight - which lasted a good couple of months.
When it stops raining, then freezing, then snowing, then raining again, I will measure up the plot and then look forward to the challenge of eaking every little inch out of it!
My mother always used to tell me "the best things come from little parcels".
As the name of the game is to produce as much veg as the two of us need then it will be quite exciting to see how much can be done. Obviously we are already challenged on the major veg such as potatoes, onions and carrots, but I did manage to grow some decent crops of potatoes last year - despite the blight - which lasted a good couple of months.
When it stops raining, then freezing, then snowing, then raining again, I will measure up the plot and then look forward to the challenge of eaking every little inch out of it!
My mother always used to tell me "the best things come from little parcels".
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Dear Anne, how right your Mother was, all the best, little Old Herbaceous.
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Dear OH - don't mind the 'little' (although 5'8" might not quite fit) but just watch the 'old'!! 
I may have reached the age when someone has swapped my brain and memory for a sieve, but I refuse to accept 'old'.
I may have reached the age when someone has swapped my brain and memory for a sieve, but I refuse to accept 'old'.
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Dear Anne, the little and old was meant to be describing me, and certainly not you.
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Sorry LOH - told you someone has sieved my brain.
And not entirely sure you are either of those anyway.
Not that I am suggesting you are big or anything ...
And not entirely sure you are either of those anyway.
Not that I am suggesting you are big or anything ...
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Glad we are friends again Anne.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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Never any other LOH. Never any other.