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Old 16-03-2010, 08:23 PM
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Hi everyone!

I joined a few weeks ago, forgot i'd joined and had my memory jogged by a friend from another forum when she told me she had joined! So here I am!!

My name is Esme, i live in Devon with my OH and our boxer dog.

I got into gardening - mainly veg growing - when we bought our house two years ago. I grew a lot in containers the first year as the previous owners of our house had made the back garden a "patio paradise". That all changed last summer when we painstakingly took the patio up and replaced it with a lawn and a very nice sized raised vegetable patch and had a very successful growing season last year and am hoping for an even better one this year!!

I still grow some stuff in containers and am acquiring some nice old belfast sinks for my herb garden next week. In addition we have a plastic style growhouse.

Anyway i've rambled on enough now so will look forward to getting to know everyone!
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Old 16-03-2010, 08:36 PM
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Hello and welcome to the Madhouse - pull up a chair, this place is addictive. For example, I sowed my first seeds of the year TODAY, because I wasted all my previous free time chatting to peeps on here!

Get yer priorities right!
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Old 16-03-2010, 08:38 PM
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Welcome to the vine Esme - lovely part of the world you live in! I'm sure you will find all you need here - and some fun!
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Old 16-03-2010, 08:41 PM
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Hi and welcome I should think the weather is a bit better in your area which should help you to get a head start on growing.
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Old 16-03-2010, 08:41 PM
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Hello Esmed, nice to meet you (shakes hands), I'm so jealous...Belfast sinks, I'd love one or two but there like rocking horse poo round here, pop over onto the chat thread and have a good natter with us all.
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Old 16-03-2010, 08:49 PM
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Hello and welcome to the Madhouse - pull up a chair, this place is addictive. For example, I sowed my first seeds of the year TODAY, because I wasted all my previous free time chatting to peeps on here!

Get yer priorities right!
My OH won't be impressed then as he already moans that i spend too much time on forums!! It's in direct proportion to how much time he spends playing playstation though!

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Welcome to the vine Esme - lovely part of the world you live in! I'm sure you will find all you need here - and some fun!
I do love Devon, i was actually born in Shrewsbury and moved to Devon when i was about 12. Devon is more like home now than Shropshire although i still love Shropshire and have family up there.

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Hi and welcome I should think the weather is a bit better in your area which should help you to get a head start on growing.
You'd think so wouuldn't you but this morning i awoke to heavy frost again! I'm leaving my planting until mid april when i return from my escape to warmer climates!

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Hello Esmed, nice to meet you (shakes hands), I'm so jealous...Belfast sinks, I'd love one or two but there like rocking horse poo round here, pop over onto the chat thread and have a good natter with us all.
Nice to meet you too! My mum has had these sinks for years and she's moving and can't take them so i'm inheritting them and am very pleased about it! I'm getting three in total - two small, deep square ones and one long shallow one.

Will check out that chat thread!
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Old 16-03-2010, 09:01 PM
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welcome hope you've got your muscles in gear for lifting those sinks!
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Old 16-03-2010, 09:05 PM
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welcome hope you've got your muscles in gear for lifting those sinks!
Nope but it's about time the OH did something useful!!
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Old 17-03-2010, 08:41 AM
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Hi and welcome to the Vine Esme, we have already met on another thread! Hope you enjoy it on here. The information is really useful and do try to join us on the Chat Thread for an off topic extravaganza!! It's fun too.
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Old 17-03-2010, 09:06 AM
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Hi and welcome from another Devonian.
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Old 17-03-2010, 09:18 AM
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Old 17-03-2010, 09:18 AM
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Hi there- and welcome to the Vine!
- not so far from Lyme Regis- my favourite place!!
( we've collected hundreds of fossils from the locality over the years when our children were younger- wonderful memories!)
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Old 17-03-2010, 09:42 AM
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Welcome to the Vine Esme!

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Old 17-03-2010, 10:01 AM
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Welcome to the Vine Esme!

Bet you can't guess who I am
If it wasn't for the signature I'd definitely never have guessed!!!
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Old 17-03-2010, 10:06 AM
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If it wasn't for the signature I'd definitely never have guessed!!!
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Old 17-03-2010, 11:23 AM
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Welcome! Here's to a good growing season!
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Old 17-03-2010, 04:50 PM
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Hi there Esme welcome to the vine. It's great to have another southerner in the ranks but I must admit that tother lot are very knowlegeable. Being productive is fun.
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Old 17-03-2010, 06:55 PM
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Hi Esme - what a nice name
Welcome to the vine and sounds like you be the one giving the advice with all your experience!
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Old 17-03-2010, 09:17 PM
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Hi Esme - what a nice name
Welcome to the vine and sounds like you be the one giving the advice with all your experience!
Thank you!

I'm not sure my advice will be worth much to anyone, i'm still very much a beginner! But veg growing links in so nicely with my other passion which is cooking.

Also thanks to everyone else for the very warm welcome to the site, it truly seems like a lovely, friendly place to be.
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Old 17-03-2010, 11:00 PM
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Hellooo and welcome from me. I have 2 belfast sinks , ones in the kitchen and one's in the workshop, can't grow anything in them though else have nowhere to wash up
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Old 18-03-2010, 12:03 PM
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Hiya, and greetings from over the Tamar in Cornwall! We're gonna get on so well, veggie growing and cooking are my passions too...!
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Old 18-03-2010, 05:53 PM
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Nice to meet You Esme and welcome
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Old 18-03-2010, 07:00 PM
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Hi Esme and welcome to the Vine! We're practically neighbours, in fact I work in Tiverton, only live 20 mins away in Cully! Here's hoping for a good growing season!
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Old 18-03-2010, 09:00 PM
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Hi Esme and welcome to the Vine! We're practically neighbours, in fact I work in Tiverton, only live 20 mins away in Cully! Here's hoping for a good growing season!
I work and live in Tiverton although i wasn't born here and i do try to get out every now and again!

Whereabouts do you work?
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Old 18-03-2010, 09:26 PM
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Welcome to the forum, from another south westerner, I hope you stay and enjoy the forum, were not a bad bunch really
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Old 21-03-2010, 03:39 PM
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Hello mate, glad I could jog your memory for you ;o)
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