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anybody care to discuss the differences between the sexes when it comes to gardening?
My first impressions are that: men like straight lines, giant veg and bare earth, women like flowers and wildlife, and prefer quality over size

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

Yes I've noticed the men plant in straight lines and women seem to go a bit wobbly. Taste just as good though. Also notice women chat but men are the gossips, not that they'd admit it!

Probably a bit over simplistic there, I do like my garden to look nice and deliberately chose varieties with varieties of colour, especially as year on year I have taken over the flower garden with more crops, not really a proper cottage garden but by using various cropping plants instead of summer bedding - not perfected it yet but am having fun on route! Suppose colour and texture is very important to me, also encouraging wildlife and don't like bare earth but that's cos it's a planting space missed. What about anybody else?

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Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

Whooo, potential can of worms (and wormesses) here! It sounds like, Men are from Mars, Women are from Visa!
My next door neighbour (man) likes summer bedding plants, hoed earth and grows his veg in rigid straight lines. I (woman) like perennials, ground cover through which things can seed (I do LOVE a free plant!) and grow veg in staggered lines (offset, you might say) and blocks and occasionally broadcast into odd spaces. So my experience says you might be right.

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never mind the quality feel the width!

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

Wicked, BW!

I'm talking about the "old-timers" who plant a whole row of, say, leeks/parsnips/old socks just because its a row and it needs to be filled up to the end, rather than thinking "I don't like eating leeks every day, so I'll only plant as much as I need" (one of my allotment neighbours has rows and rows of leeks and sprouts, going to rack and ruin...why doesn't he grow something he likes eating? Or sniffing?)

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

I have noticed that unless you get a Thai one . Women are rubbish carrying 120lt bags of compost up hill.

My mates Thai one you can bend her over and get two on her back and she will come back with the wheelbarrow and push him to the plot. And he dosent have to beat her....................much.

My Welsh one, ok you can get the bale on her back but the bleeting and then strangley the next morning when I wake up, my face is all brused, she says that its cos she dosent use softener in the washing ??

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That's because women are too intelligent to carry it up a hill...they will instead site the Dalek at top of said hill, and empty the compost in situ

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

One of Jethro's jokes? (sheep with its head stuck in a fence, wriggling. Jethro says I'll have a go, never shagged a sheep before. when he's done, he turns to his mate: "your go". "No way" says mate, "I'll never get my head thru that fence"

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

This is a fact, and I am not proud of it! We have forty allotments on our site and all are worked by men! I would estimate about half are show leek growers! It would seem that here in the North East the allotment is the male bastion?

There are now six on the waiting list, and they are all men as well!

Last Of The Summer Wine eat your heart out!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Snadger, what's going on? Our site is now 50/50 girls n boys, young n older, organic n chemical. It makes a nice vibrant mix - we all laugh at each other's efforts

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

Glad to hear most women prefer quality to size!!!!! Works in my favour.

My plot is dominated by men. 1 woman, Di, and she has caused a rumpus by having turf delivered so her 2-year-old can play in safety while she gardens. An 80 year-old called Herefordshire Tom complained to the committee about the rise of "recreation gardeners". Abso-bloody-hilarious - worth going to meetings just to watch it all kick off. Makes Vicar of Dibley PCC meetings look totally believable.

Men are about straight lines and women are about curves... Now let me ses ...

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it's written in the wind that we're two, carved out in the sand that we're real,
it's lit up in the stars that we're true, we're destined in the sky to be glad
Paul Weller
http://johntygreentoes.blogspot.com/

I heard that one differntly, it was Kyle Minogue with her head through the fence and after Mick jagger has finished he turns to Elton John and says "Go on its your turn now!" Elton says " No way, I'll never get my head through that fence!"

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Just hope to hell I haven't joined a gay gardening club!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Now I get it...

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it's written in the wind that we're two, carved out in the sand that we're real,
it's lit up in the stars that we're true, we're destined in the sky to be glad
Paul Weller
http://johntygreentoes.blogspot.com/

Snadger - gay means happy. what you scared of? Happiness?

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

Our site used to be like yours Snadger, then a woman joined and put in a pond and flowers and other wierd stuff!! Now we have an annual turnover of trendy people (tends to be female though not exclusivly) who have watched an organic gardening program Turn up in September, dig a bit, return in March, despair at weeds, dig a bit, plant some seeds, return in May, greater despair at lots of weeds, dig a bit, return in July, get dissapointed at harvest, disbelief at size and spread of weeds, pack allotment in.

Repeat from September with new person......

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Geordie

Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure

Gay might mean happy where you come from but believe me, my arse will be glued to the shed wall if I find out I've dropped a boo boo!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Love the quote Flummery, although it was me who took BW's credit card away from him!
Our lottie is one of 22 and there are men, women, couples, Italians, Indians, old and young working their plots. It's a great mix. Don't get too many screaming toddlers though - the old men make up for it!

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Regards, Jane
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Ursula LeGuin
http://www.etribes.com/madderbat

Bloody funny image conjured up as your site is like mine.....no pink wellies in my row though!

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Geordie

Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure

They can be as happy as they want as long as it dosen't involve me.

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My phone has more Processing power than the Computers NASA used to fake the Moon Landings