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I've been buying the Grow Your own magazine for nearly a year now, & finally decided to join the forum this month,
I would like to say a big hello to everyone & introduce myself.
My Name is Tony, I live in London, and work as a healthcare professional.
My gardening "credentials" are as follows:
I used to live in a house with a big garden in which i grew roses, honeysuckle, begonias tulips & fresias - with the occasional fruit & veg such as tomatos, runner beans, cabbages, gooseberries blackcurrants & raspberries.
I now live in a ground floor flat, which has a very small garden, for the first few years of living here, I did nothing with it, but last year decided to exercise the green fingers again after I started buying the GYO mag. As it is such a small garden, i decided to concentrate on the fruit & veg side of things, - you cant eat that many types of flowers!
I successfully grew, Runnerbeans, Peas, Dwarfbeans, red & white onions, (red baron & Stuttgartner giant) spring onions, carrots (Chantenay red cored 2 as my soil is very shallow) beetroots & white swiss chard - (first time) tomatos & radishes. - the radishes were Ravanello Rosso Gigante - very big & excellent flavour, but I lost a lot of them to slug damage - I wanted to keep the garden as organic as possible.
I could only grow small quantities as theres limited soil, & some brickwork similar to a patio, which i used growbags for the tomatoes - (far too many tomatos!!
)
It was such a pleasure to be able to go out into the garden & decide which veg to have with my dinner, & the fact that it was all home grown & organic, semed to make them taste all the better.
over the winter months, i've grown winter cabbage, lettuce, - good success, but the over winter onions havent really come on at all quite feeble
, The cauliflowers show promise, & are already 2" high. fingers crossed for them!
I hope that we have good weather for the coming season, as i'm thinking of trying to grow spuds in some thick green plastic round sacks that I got from B&Q. - but I'm still trying to decide on which varieties to try.
I look forward to being a member of this forum, as you all seem such a happy friendly bunch!
I would like to say a big hello to everyone & introduce myself.
My Name is Tony, I live in London, and work as a healthcare professional.
My gardening "credentials" are as follows:
I used to live in a house with a big garden in which i grew roses, honeysuckle, begonias tulips & fresias - with the occasional fruit & veg such as tomatos, runner beans, cabbages, gooseberries blackcurrants & raspberries.
I now live in a ground floor flat, which has a very small garden, for the first few years of living here, I did nothing with it, but last year decided to exercise the green fingers again after I started buying the GYO mag. As it is such a small garden, i decided to concentrate on the fruit & veg side of things, - you cant eat that many types of flowers!
I successfully grew, Runnerbeans, Peas, Dwarfbeans, red & white onions, (red baron & Stuttgartner giant) spring onions, carrots (Chantenay red cored 2 as my soil is very shallow) beetroots & white swiss chard - (first time) tomatos & radishes. - the radishes were Ravanello Rosso Gigante - very big & excellent flavour, but I lost a lot of them to slug damage - I wanted to keep the garden as organic as possible.
I could only grow small quantities as theres limited soil, & some brickwork similar to a patio, which i used growbags for the tomatoes - (far too many tomatos!!
) It was such a pleasure to be able to go out into the garden & decide which veg to have with my dinner, & the fact that it was all home grown & organic, semed to make them taste all the better.
over the winter months, i've grown winter cabbage, lettuce, - good success, but the over winter onions havent really come on at all quite feeble
, The cauliflowers show promise, & are already 2" high. fingers crossed for them!I hope that we have good weather for the coming season, as i'm thinking of trying to grow spuds in some thick green plastic round sacks that I got from B&Q. - but I'm still trying to decide on which varieties to try.
I look forward to being a member of this forum, as you all seem such a happy friendly bunch!
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