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    I guess I should put my rhyme where my mouth is, so to speak...

    I have to admit, I love pests and diseases. I have always loved to dig in the garden but seldom stayed long enough to care too much for planting and designing a garden. I like going into dreadful gardens, clearing, burning and leaving something that can be worked with. I love to build things, too.

    About four or five years ago I woke up one morning and said, "I'm going to college". Quickly enrolling on an RHS course at Rodbaston, in the midlands. It was a night course which suited this rather older fellow, long past his garden clearing best. I have recently signed to the RHS level 3 on line as Rodbaston are not offering such a course.

    Pest and disease was always a concern when i decided to grow my own and is perhaps the greatest linking factor of all gardeners and growers alike, even the best suffer at a blight or aphid outbreak. So I imagine I will live most of my time on this site in the pest and disease threads, learning and sharing anything interesting I discover while reading books old and new.

    anyway the rhyme.

    Beginnings.

    The seeds are sprouting in the trays,
    and soil is warming under sun,
    I grow my own, it's all the craze,
    and tasty work, abundant fun.

    It's free and fresh, as is the air,
    rewarding way beyond some dreams,
    and if the season plays it fair,
    I'll find rewards from planting schemes.

    Across the land a buzz explodes,
    as sunlight feeds depleted zing,
    and in me sunlight spurs and goads,
    as winter fails her fight with spring.

    And with free seeds from Grow your own,
    I may no longer feel alone...



    Buying the GYO magazine may turn out to be one of the better moves I have made.

    I look forward to learning a great deal.

    Tptp

    Before you spray a single thing,
    sit down and read the silent spring.


  • #2
    Welcome to the Grapevine
    Polytunnel Poet,
    Draw up a chair, have a read,
    You'll be expert before you know it

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    • #3
      Thank you for the welcome, Veggiechicken, this is a nice chair.
      Before you spray a single thing,
      sit down and read the silent spring.

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      • #4
        A very warm welcome to the forum.
        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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        • #5
          Hello and welcome to the vine Poly tunnel Poet
          Location....East Midlands.

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          • #6
            Hello and welcome.

            If you like pests you are more than welcome to some of my slugs - I even offer a bulk discount

            Enjoy the vine.
            Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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            • #7
              Yes, welcome to the madhouse,
              Where you will find tips galore,
              But beware of Vegiechickens chair,
              Or you'll get more than you bargain for.

              For now she's a super moderator,
              Cracking that leather whip she found,
              You will be forced to join in her discussions,
              And your feet wont touch the ground....

              SHE HAS WAYS OF MAKING YOU TALK!!!!!!
              Its Grand to be Daft...

              https://www.youtube.com/user/beauchief1?feature=mhee

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              • #8
                Welcome fellow poet, I have been known to write a few myself, mostly in the style of Ogden Nash.


                Welcome poly tunnel poet
                With Rhs at level three
                So if I ask you better know it
                From slug to little honey Bee.

                Its nice to find an older man
                Prepared to learn new tricks
                And share his knowledge where he can
                Our problems so to fix.

                You will find a wealth of knowledge here
                From gardeners old and new
                So ask away and never fear
                We'll see what we can do.

                (Assuming you are an older man)

                This forum is notable for the unselfish sharing of knowledge. I think you will love it here.
                photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.html

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                • #9
                  Hello and a very warm welcome to the Vine If you put your location into your profile, we'll know where you are!
                  Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                  • #10
                    Hello, and welcome to the Madhouse!
                    All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
                    Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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                    • #11
                      Good morning all,

                      thank you for a wonderful welcome.

                      I am 47, and I found going to college felt like I had bitten off, way more than I could chew, so I faced it like a field full of Japanese knotweed and brambles, a step at a time.... I discovered this much, just how much I did not know. Sticking to the chosen subject matter for each module is the hardest, each time I start reading I am drawn away into new areas. It is beguiling.

                      I have not qualified to level 3 yet, I am taking that course, but I will not cease til I do qualify, a personal challenge rather than a yen to be some great expert, the expertise will come with years in the garden and seasons of ups and downs. Many clever men never attended a class, they just observed the consequences of their actions and fine tuned their actions.

                      If I am honest once I had began to study I found it exciting and watching the way interactions occur above and below the surface, wow!

                      I am in the Midlands just north of Birmingham.

                      The bulk offer of slugs is tempting, but I have a share of "slugs with houses" to ship out first!

                      I was in a poly tunnel one day and said something to a fellow, cannot remember what I said, but he responded with, "that was poetic, poet and did not know it", and suddenly I was a poly tunnel poet... So I figured.

                      Anyway it is lovely to meet a few other poetically minded gardeners and or horticulturists...

                      I love to chatter, so no worries there...

                      The thing I like about pests and diseases, is finding ways of keeping them at bay.

                      Tptp




                      Before you spray a single thing,
                      sit down and read the silent spring.

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                      • #12
                        As a general rule of thumb we don't need to combat pests, but put in place measures for mother nature to do it herself. Find a way of attracting lacewings into your garden/allotment and aphids and caterpillars could be a thing of the past. Slugs make a lovely meal for frogs so a little pond on the plot is a good project.

                        I much prefer minimal human interference, I dig and mulch, then dig and munch.
                        I'm only here cos I got on the wrong bus.

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                        • #13
                          So do you have an allotment or garden? tell us about it. We are very nosey.
                          photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.html

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Bill HH View Post
                            So do you have an allotment or garden? tell us about it. We are very nosey.
                            Hey don't tar me with that brush.... so do you have any piccies then?
                            I'm only here cos I got on the wrong bus.

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                            • #15
                              I only have a garden at the moment and that is small. I shall try get some photos on the phone and up load them.

                              I am reading Permaculture, by Christopher Shein, I figure this approach may best suit the smaller garden. Rather than the rows and crop rotation a decent plot would allow. Popping something here and there...

                              I wish I had a bigger plot, that is for sure...
                              Before you spray a single thing,
                              sit down and read the silent spring.

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