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My names Sue, I'm from Hertfordshire. I have just got my first allotment and am waiting for the council to come and turn it over,though they can't say how long it will be. I have only ever grown a few peas and carrots in the garden before, so i will probably be asking lots of stupid questions.
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oldherbaceous
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Hello Sue a very big welcome from me, do you live in the posh part of Hertfordshire, if so i live in the posh part of Bedfordshire. 
I see some of the sensible ones and one not so sensible, have introduced them selves already, there really is a mixed old bunch on hear, but between us we normally come up with some fair answers, and also have a good laugh.
Hope you enjoy it.
Kind regards Old Herbaceous.
Theres no fool like an old fool.
I see some of the sensible ones and one not so sensible, have introduced them selves already, there really is a mixed old bunch on hear, but between us we normally come up with some fair answers, and also have a good laugh.
Hope you enjoy it.
Kind regards Old Herbaceous.
Theres no fool like an old fool.
Hi Sue,
Welcome! There is no such thing as a stupid question.
We all have to learn and I think we pride ourselves on this Forum that we have helped many people with many questions.
It is very difficult to read a gardening book without not fully understanding something. If we can rephrase that you may well then understand it and if you do not please say so and we can have another and another until you do understand it.
Welcome! There is no such thing as a stupid question.
We all have to learn and I think we pride ourselves on this Forum that we have helped many people with many questions.
It is very difficult to read a gardening book without not fully understanding something. If we can rephrase that you may well then understand it and if you do not please say so and we can have another and another until you do understand it.
JB.
A warm welcome, Sue.By all means ask questions but don't neglect the wisdom of past mailings and and make full use of the search facilities, not only by subject but also to read the entries by individual memers. I get a little tired of all these 'ask a question' forums and like to find new topics, after all if you don't know of a subject you won't think to ask a question about it.
I would also refer you to advice given on booklists, they do have a place and not everybody has a laptop on their allotment.The names Joy Larcom and Dr David Hessayon (Expert series) are prominent.
Allan
I would also refer you to advice given on booklists, they do have a place and not everybody has a laptop on their allotment.The names Joy Larcom and Dr David Hessayon (Expert series) are prominent.
Allan
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Drilled into my children, something I learned in the Navy. If you do not ask, you will never know the answer! Welcome.
Love veg!
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Hello Suci and welcome!
pants x
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"It is very difficult to read a gardening book without not fully understanding something. If we can rephrase that you may well then understand it and if you do not please say so and we can have another and another until you do understand it."
I'm not understanding this
Allan
I'm not understanding this
Allan
Oh Allan,
I see your predicament so I will rephrase it so you may understand it. If you do not understand it do come back and I will rephrase it again and again until you do.
If a person who has had no practical experience of growing but wishes to give it a go and has a book given to them for Christmas it is just humanly possible that they may well come across words and phrases that do not understand or make sense to them.
If that person then comes on the Forum and asks a question it is up to us, who have had many years of experience, to try and rephrase those words or passages so that the person may understand it. If they are still not sure then I hope that they will come back and say so and, I for one, do not care how many times that person comes back just so long as we make sure that the person understands what is meant.
Now Allan, have you got that, or do you need me to rephrase it again.
Many new gardeners are also new to forums and this business of 'use the search facilities' and you are tired of 'ask question forums' shows me that you are obviously not the person to deal with new members so I suggest that you refrain from replying to them.
Your words go completely against the ethos of this forum.
Should any member who is too shy to ask a question in open forum but needs to know something then feel free to PM me by clicking the PM button under one of my postings and I will be only too delighted to assist you if I can. If I do not know the answer then I will ask the question under my name on the forum and you will then be able to read the general consensus of the members.
JB.
I see your predicament so I will rephrase it so you may understand it. If you do not understand it do come back and I will rephrase it again and again until you do.
If a person who has had no practical experience of growing but wishes to give it a go and has a book given to them for Christmas it is just humanly possible that they may well come across words and phrases that do not understand or make sense to them.
If that person then comes on the Forum and asks a question it is up to us, who have had many years of experience, to try and rephrase those words or passages so that the person may understand it. If they are still not sure then I hope that they will come back and say so and, I for one, do not care how many times that person comes back just so long as we make sure that the person understands what is meant.
Now Allan, have you got that, or do you need me to rephrase it again.
Many new gardeners are also new to forums and this business of 'use the search facilities' and you are tired of 'ask question forums' shows me that you are obviously not the person to deal with new members so I suggest that you refrain from replying to them.
Your words go completely against the ethos of this forum.
Should any member who is too shy to ask a question in open forum but needs to know something then feel free to PM me by clicking the PM button under one of my postings and I will be only too delighted to assist you if I can. If I do not know the answer then I will ask the question under my name on the forum and you will then be able to read the general consensus of the members.
JB.
To Johnboy and anyone else who cares to wade through all this.
Ignoring the usual personal attack, if you had expressed what you meant to say properly then I and other readers would have stood a chance of understanding what you were getting at. It left me woundering whether the supplies of elderberry wine were being exhausted at an unusual rate. As it was, it was so wrapped up with double negatives etc. that I could not make sense of it, so what chance a newcomer. I assumed that I knew what you were trying to say, or ought to be trying to say, but that was all. Thank you for your elucidation even if a trifle verbose.
The remark about going further than simple question and answer format still stands and is as much about material elsewhere such as the BBC as it is about this forum so why turn the big guns on that.
Lastly it is not unknown for me to give great assistance to members new and old in their search for help and I shall continue to do so by my own judgement and in my own manner and ignore anybody who attempt to forbid such work.
Allan
Ignoring the usual personal attack, if you had expressed what you meant to say properly then I and other readers would have stood a chance of understanding what you were getting at. It left me woundering whether the supplies of elderberry wine were being exhausted at an unusual rate. As it was, it was so wrapped up with double negatives etc. that I could not make sense of it, so what chance a newcomer. I assumed that I knew what you were trying to say, or ought to be trying to say, but that was all. Thank you for your elucidation even if a trifle verbose.
The remark about going further than simple question and answer format still stands and is as much about material elsewhere such as the BBC as it is about this forum so why turn the big guns on that.
Lastly it is not unknown for me to give great assistance to members new and old in their search for help and I shall continue to do so by my own judgement and in my own manner and ignore anybody who attempt to forbid such work.
Allan