Grow Your Own Magazine

Well, I have been reading your posts for a few days and decided to become a Grape.

I have always wanted to grow my own fruit and veg and am finally doing it... well about to try. I am completely new to gardening, having bought an old bungalow with a large veggie patch in September last year but I hope to be self-sufficient some day!

I am very enthusiastic, have all my seeds ready to sow when the time is right and I'm sure I will have loads of questions throughout the season... I will definitely look on here for the answers.

Until whenever.

pjh

Hi and welcome to the Vine.
I'm sure that when the time comes, you will find a lot of good advice on growing your veg (and lots of other things too) right here. Just don't be afraid to join in or to ask questions. We all help each other but don't take life too seriously either.
Later............

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Rat

British by birth
Scottish by the Grace of God

Blog updated Wednesday 17th September

Welcome to the Vine PJH. You've come to a great place. Look forward to hearing how you get on. Don't hesitate with your questions and any of your own tips and experiences. And there is the general chit chat about anything that interests you.

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From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Hello and welcome to the vine.

My one tip is to buy a big notebook and keep loads of notes as to what you plant, when, how it grew etc. That way you can read it through this time next year and think about any changes you could make to improve on things. Don't forget to have lots of fun experimenting!

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

welcome theres lots of good advice to be had on here just ask away

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The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ...

Hello and welcome to the Vine!!!

hi, and welcome, keep us up to date with your progress, i only got my plot in august and am keen to learn from others and to share failures and triumphs!!
good luck sowing, and enjoy it all, from seed to plate..

Welcome to the 'Vine PJH

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Sarah

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

Welcome to the grapevine. An alternative to the notebook is the blog!

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

www.vegheaven.blogspot.com

Updated September 29th - Bean drying.

Hi and welcome - always lots of friendly help and advice around here and a few laughs along the way too!

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Life may not be the party we hoped for but since we're here we might as well dance

Hi PJH75 and welcome. I bet you've read the seed packets over and over again just waiting to get them sown. Not long now 'till spring.

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http://www.weltaf.co.uk/
Why keep a dog when you can bark yourself !

Just to say welcome to the vine. You'll be well looked after here. We all start somewhere.

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Food for Free

...and it's usually at the beginning.

Plenty of knowledgable peoples on here, lot's with experience and advice to impart. And then there's those like me who have all the gear and no idea, but keen to learn.

Good luck with your endeavours.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Tuscany update - 27th September

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Yes I have... I can't wait!

Hi PJH and welcome...........good luck with you new venture, there are so many lovely grapes on here with so much help and advice and when you get a taste of your first veggie you have grown yourself wow you're gonna love it!!!

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The closer to nature I become the more alive I am!

http://www.freakshoweb.com

Hello Pjh75, welcome to the Vine.. you are now a grape.

Do you get the Magazine..? Have you have much rain..? Do you have an allotment, or like me a plot in the garden..?

Am i Nosey..?

Yes I have got the magazine.. started with the Feb issue and I think it is very good. Have had a fair bit of rain (and wind).... thought my raspberry canes and blackberry bush would have blown away or drowned but they seem okay.. I have a veg plot in the garden, along with a greenhouse which is currently home to 2 varieties of sweet pepper that I am hoping will germinate in the propogator... and no, you are not nosey at all, just interested.

Hi Pjh & welcome

just 'joined' (if thats the right expression!) myself - a great community.

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NKP1962
From Plot to Plate

I think it is SO lovely that there's a friendly forum like this one for us all to chat to each other, and exchange thoughts and ideas, and it's really lovely to see so many NEW Grapes this early this year!!! How exciting!

I must say, Flummery, you took the words out of my mouth earlier (Clever Flummy!) in that new peeps to the Grapevine can just 'browse' and look at how other Grapes have developed their own plots over time by looking at their BLOGS, and how they have developed from 'knowing diddly sh!t' to 'what I know now' kind of thing.

Trousers and I went back to the very start of our own Blog the other day, just to re-acquaint ourselves with how very little WE both knew when we started, and we were so thrilled to arrive back at 'Today', knowing that, every step of the way, we have been helped and inspired by others that have been there before us.....

I can't wait to share your journey through this coming year, and very good luck from us both.
X

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With Love,
Wellie

Give it some....

http://hollycottagegarden.blogspot.com
Blog updated Thursday 9th October

I was just looking through my old posts and came across this - my first post.

Had to laugh at the fact that I described my veg patch as large... it seemed huge at the time, but now that it is full of broccoli, cauliflower, sweetcorn, courgette, onions, shallots, potatoes, mange tout, french beans, parsnips, turnips, beetroots, raspberries & blackberries , it does not seem so spacious - what a difference a few months can make. Have already told my OH that next year I am taking over his raised bed that is currently full of pansies .

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pjh75

We sow the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed.