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  • #1

    Whats the best advice you have been given?

    I was at my mom and dads I was asked how the garden was going so I told them. My mom then told me what I was 'doing wrong' then gave me some more 'advice'.
    So it made me think about the advice she had just given me and I asked my dad what was the best advice he was given or could give me. After a long pause he looked at me and said
    "Don't eat yellow snow"
    I did ask him for some thing slightly more useful than that but he just smiled at me and went off to watch a bit of telly.
    So what has been the best advice or opinion or view you have been given?
    Hopefully better than yellow snow
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    Thing is whenever you ask for 'advice' you get conflicting views, so in the end you kind if have to make up your own mind.

    Best advice I've been given is on here, and that would be about covering up with cardboard, chucking on homemade compost or whatever and leaving over the winter.

    Works well.
    DottyR

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    • #3
      When I got my allotment I was told to weedkill everything! I never did!

      Then a very chatty bloke come over and said cover the plot with tarp and walk away..... Come back in six weeks dig a bed and cover go home and when you come back dig a bed and re cover well I just had an op and my wife did this come spring I uncovered bare soil my wife never broke her back and had a good season without the use of and weed killer
      Last edited by darcyvuqua; 23-03-2014, 11:13 AM.
      In the following link you can follow my recent progress on the plot

      https://www.youtube.com/user/darcyvuqua?feature=watch

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      • #4
        You are two late now but my dad was full of handy bits of advice, such as " Dont trust people who's eyes are two close together", "people with high foreheads were most likely premature babies" (God knows what that was based on) and the one bit of advice that i did take and has always worked for me is "where important decisions are required, sleep on it.
        photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.html

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        • #5
          You make your bed, you sleep in it
          Never test the depth of the water with both feet

          The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory....

          Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

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          • #6
            Two bits of useful info....

            Take time to look and enjoy your garden/ veg plot. ( grandpa)

            Don't go to the loo or rub your eyes after handling chillies( this forum)....I do however seem to keep forgetting this one!

            Oh...and a third one......try and be as organic as you can (OH taught me this).... The garden is so much prettier and has more wildlife...such a pleasure to see, as well as having the health benefits of chemical- free food.

            Nice thread by the way noviceveggrower!
            "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

            Location....Normandy France

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            • #7
              Originally posted by RedThorn View Post
              You make your bed, you sleep in it
              Should that not be;.....

              You make your bed, you sow in it???


              In the following link you can follow my recent progress on the plot

              https://www.youtube.com/user/darcyvuqua?feature=watch

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              • #8
                Originally posted by RedThorn View Post
                You make your bed, you sleep in it
                You sleep on your veg patch?
                "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                Location....Normandy France

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                • #9
                  "Ask two gardeners, get three opinions" springs to mind
                  K's Garden blog the story of the creation of our garden

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                  • #10
                    Be far more peaceful I tell ya! No wife snoring....

                    Basically me da was telling me to follow a decision to the end for good or ill
                    Never test the depth of the water with both feet

                    The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory....

                    Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

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                    • #11
                      My nan used to say... Listen to advice with yer gob shut, then go away and make your own mind up.
                      Its Grand to be Daft...

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

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                      • #12
                        I remember once when I was little one spring my nan stood looking at a pile of snow by a stone wall. So I just had to go over and ask her what she was doing, well you do when you are little.
                        She told me we were going to have some more snow because the stuff on the ground was waiting for company. Well that day was blazing hot hence most of the snow had melted. I remember thinking she had lost it a bit. But hey 3 days later we had a load more snow.
                        She use to always say "great minds think alike, but only fools never differ". That was one of her polite ones
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                        • #13
                          From a gardening friend many years ago. 'Always but always read the bally seed packet, and then use the information you find there'.

                          I know a little more about gardening now so am able to play a bit, but I still read the seed packets even the ones I read last year.

                          Potty
                          Potty by name Potty by nature.

                          By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


                          We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

                          Aesop 620BC-560BC

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                          • #14
                            Never assume
                            Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                            • #15
                              Always listen to good advice, even if you don't intend to take it.
                              Location ... Nottingham

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