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  • hi from the Peak District

    A flagpole, swings, tree house, shed decorated with old toys, fire-pit, genuine vintage gnomes, vast storage box of netting...oh yes, and quite a large area dedicated to veg, soft fruit and flowers for cutting.
    We call it an 'allotment', but pedantically (is this a forum where pedants exist? ) it's not, it's a veg plot a sloping triangular piece of land behind a church that we bought a few years back. Previously had been a veg garden but not cultivated due to ill health. Happens to be next door to my daughters bungalow, which explains the grand kids swings/tree house...

    We grow as organically as possible, - sounds a bit wishy-washy, but it's the slugs your honour, the slugs, hoping for advice to reduce them. Current plan involves penning a few chickens strategically. also have snails and a wonderful population of slow worms. In my ideal world, there would be enough slow worms to keep the slug population to a reasonable level. Also the occasional toad. Bird life mainly dominated by the resident jackdaws who strip the soft fruit given a chance. This explains the huge collection of netting....

    Oh, perhaps I should brag a bit - won the best 3 potatoes (Picasso), longest runner bean and heaviest marrow in the village veg. competition. So proud - but all grown to eat not for competition really.

    I'm hoping to find lots of good advice - my main problem is carrots, and there seems to be a thread dedicated to this, which is what attracted me in the first place.

    Erm, that's it....

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    Hello and welcome to the Vine - it sounds like you will be right at home here.

    Oh we really like pics on here so if you feel the urge snap away.............
    I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

    Outreach co-ordinator for the Gnome, Pixie and Fairy groups within the Nutters Club.

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    • #3
      Hi Trautigan & welcome to the vine. I've heard of folk being shy but 7 years to make a first post must be a record...............
      sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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      • #4
        Hello and welcome,
        sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these

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        • #5
          Hi there!

          And a huge welcome to your first post!!

          Yup..you are going to fit in here fine

          Ask away!

          Oh..and piccies always go down well!
          "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

          Location....Normandy France

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          • #6
            Welcome from me too
            Nannys make memories

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            • #7
              Hello and welcome
              I feel honoured that my crazy carrot threads have brought you out of lurkdom and into the light of the Vine
              Have you sown any buckets yet??

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              • #8
                Welcome to the vine, enjoy the benefits of the advice and humour

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                • #9
                  Hello & Welcome
                  He who smiles in the face of adversity,has already decided who to blame

                  Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

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                  • #10
                    Hello and welcome to the forum
                    The best things in life are not things.

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                    • #11
                      A very warm welcome to the forum, dear soul
                      Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
                      Everything is worthy of kindness.

                      http://thegentlebrethren.wordpress.com

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                      • #12
                        Welcome to the vine

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                        • #13
                          Hello Trautigan and welcome to the vine, keep posting and you'll soon feel at home here
                          Location....East Midlands.

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                          • #14
                            Hello and a very warm welcome to the Vine
                            Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                            • #15
                              Hi, welcome to the vine.

                              Our very own VC was once a shy retiring type, but she's managed to catch up by squeezing 10 years worth of posts into three or four, so I'm sure you will too

                              Come on now, you won't catch up with only one post every 24 hours, you know....
                              Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
                              Endless wonder.

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