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Old 20-02-2008, 10:53 PM
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Hi,
I don't know if I'm posting in the right section but out of all of them this seemed the best one to say Hi to everyone!
I'm just about to move to a place with a garden big enough to grow fruit and veg for the first time so I thought I'd make myself known. I know that I'll be needing advice when I finally make a start and after looking at your posts I know I'll find the help that I need here
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Old 20-02-2008, 11:29 PM
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Hello purfikk and welcome to the Vine. Tell us more about your new garden and what you plan to grow. We love hearing about other people's plans!
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Old 21-02-2008, 07:16 AM
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Welcome to the vine Purrfik! Good luck with the veggies!
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Old 21-02-2008, 07:22 AM
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Good luck, enjoy and pick what passes for brains here as much as you like!!
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Old 21-02-2008, 08:11 AM
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Hi Purrfik. You'll get plenty of help here, welcome to the GYO forum.
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Old 21-02-2008, 08:12 AM
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Hi and welcome to the vine purrfik. Have fun with your growing.
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Old 21-02-2008, 08:18 AM
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Welcome aboard. Good luck with your purrfik garden.
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Old 21-02-2008, 12:45 PM
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welcome from me too theres lot of advice to be had on here and most of its good
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Old 21-02-2008, 12:49 PM
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Welcome to the 'Vine Purrfik, good luck with the move, lucky you with a lovely big garden
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Old 21-02-2008, 01:10 PM
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Hello and welcome to the vine Purrfik. Enjoy your fruit and veggie gardening .
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Old 22-02-2008, 05:48 PM
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Thank you all for the warm welcome. My move is provisionally booked for 2 weeks time but I'm already trying to plan what to plant where and when I've got to sow things. I hope I'm not going to be too late for things. Are there any things that I need to get sown now?
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Old 22-02-2008, 06:32 PM
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Hello and welcome Sue

Although some of us are already sowing things, there's really no panic. Most things sown a little later will catch up with early planted crops anyway.
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Old 22-02-2008, 06:39 PM
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Hi Purrfik and welcome to the Vine.
You have no need to worry about missing out on sowing - most veg should be sown from Mid March on, but being avid growers we are always trying to get one up on Old Mother Nature but as seahorse quite rightly says, plants have a way of catching up with each other.
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Old 22-02-2008, 06:47 PM
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Hello and welcome - one thing you might like to think about in advance is fruit trees and bushes - there are some great bargains around now on bare-rooted plants. If you could spend a while looking round the garden that's soon to be yours and decide if and where you want to plant fruit, you could get things planted in March and enjoy blossom all spring.
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Old 04-03-2008, 01:23 AM
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Thank you for all your welcomes! I'm busy reading all the posts each day, so informative!
I'm busy packing........it seems never ending and back breaking.....I move on Saturday and I don't care what anybody else says or thinks I should be doing, on Sunday, come rain or shine, I'm going to be out in my new garden
I'll be absent from the forum for a while til I've managed to get my Broadband sorted out. I'm on cable at the moment but as it's a rural area I'm moving to, cable doesn't exist there, nor gas.......lol
Thought you might like to see a picture of my garden, taken by the current residents last summer. Will post some more once I start to change it
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Old 04-03-2008, 07:28 AM
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hello and welcome to the vine
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Old 04-03-2008, 08:43 AM
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Hello there - and welcome to the Vine!!
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Old 04-03-2008, 08:51 AM
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Welcome to the vine, I'm very envious of your garden.

What a wonderful blank canvas of a garden, I have a feeling those boxes you're packing won't get unpacked until the winter
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Old 04-03-2008, 09:16 AM
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Welcome, lovely patch you have there...so to speak.
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Old 04-03-2008, 10:40 AM
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