Grow Your Own Magazine

Been down the lottie this afternoon and left with my first basket FULL of GYO! Carrots, lettuce, mooli, beetroot and french beans!
I was so proud of myself i wanted to stop people a say "I grew this!"
Can't wait to get stuck into it all HOORAH!

Well done Lainey Lou,

enjoy your GYO tea tonight
but I think that if you stopped people on the street, you might get arrested

Clare

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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

I was at the point of stopping people on the street with bagfuls of runner beans.....!

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Hazel
www.hazelandjanesallotment.blogspot.com
update Tues 02/12/2008......End of year report!.....

Yeah, well we all know you should be arrested
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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

heehee!

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Hazel
www.hazelandjanesallotment.blogspot.com
update Tues 02/12/2008......End of year report!.....

Well done you!!! Enjoy your feast, how proud are you?!

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

Thanks you guys!

Get the camera out and put them in the GYO virtual show! That is the 'virtual' way of stopping people in the street or shouting from the rooftops!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Well done Lainey Lou. And yes, do get your camera out and enter something for the show. Or post the pics on here. I love to see what everybody is growing.

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

Well done Lainey Lou - its a lovely feeling isn't it and even though I've been growing for four years now I still want to show off my produce!

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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
~ Mary Kay Ash

It's a feeling you never get over! Incidentally, how proud is Punch?
Bet they tasted LOADS better than shop stuff too!

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake)

I hope you had a really nice dinner last night Lainey Lou - for my first season growing properly (apart from peas in a tub and hanging basket of tomatoes, I haven't grown veg since I were a nipper and used to help my dad), I was amazed at not only what actually GREW, but how good I felt about picking it and later eating it. Proud as punch indeedy - planning for next year already.

It's a great feeling.

I remember my first ever crop - but then it was only a few weeks ago, and I arrived home after being on the plot for a few hours. I walked in through the kitchen door and pronounced "look wife, I make food!" It was emotional!

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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Too late! It,s all been eaten, we had a feast last night!!!
Will have to photograph my next basketfull!

It's a really good feeling every time you pick your own produce, it doesn't matter how often you do it, it still feels good. It's something you never lose.
Be aware though that the opposite can be felt when things go wrong. Sorry to put a blank in but it's a fact of the lottie life. Think of the good stuff, and keep smiling.
Oh and whatever you do. Don't stop people on the street

Well done Lainey Lou
its great in it knowing you grow it from seed I am about to start on the over wintering broad beens going to perper the bed today hopefully

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Some things in their natural state have the most VIVID colors
Dobby

Its great when you can dish it up & announce I grew this. Unfortunately there will be failures and I find myself getting quite annoyed when I have to say the carrots or whatever are *@!@* Tesco's. I had a really proud moment this week. My baby blueberrie bushes haven't cropped alot so I've been putting them in the freezer all summer. Yesterday I made my 1st muffins with MY blueberries. Just enough for 1 batch. Boy were they delicious, and everyone's now hoping for a better crop next year!!

A friend of mine made some mushroom soup for a dinner party. After the guests had consumed the soup and commented on how nice it was, only then she admitted to harvesting said mushrooms from local fields that afternoon. Evidently none of the guests died though some did look worried.

Are we a bit odd, photographing our food before we eat it? Well I don't care, I still do it. I also get upset out of all proportion when I sow the food, nurture it, cosset it, water it, weed it, dig it, wash it, cook it ... and then they don't eat it! It's so upsetting

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi