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    hi everyone I'm Nina!
    I've always been a bit of a green fingered person but in July hubster & I became owners of our own allotment which has taken a fair bit of our time /effort/money & a love of using our teenage boys as slaves (I'm only half kidding) we have discovered two established apple trees, a cherry tree, numerous blackcurrant & gooseberry bushes a possible pear tree, three or four rhubarb plants & a whole heap of glass!

    Most of last year was a clearing job as the nettles were a good 5/6ft high. The vine weed was enough to make me cry & the brambles were a good inch or two diameter but we managed to get some cucumbers, tomatoes, jalapeņos, potatoes & our Halloween Pumpkins out of the allotment we've a polytunnel so I can get a good start on most things & hopefully I can get my second lot of brassicas out & netted before our local pheasant Nigal destroys them again!!! At home birds aren't much of an issue as we have cats but the allotment has its own pheasant

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    Hi Nina, and welcome. I hope you'll find warmth, humour and sound advice here - I have!

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    • #3
      Hi Nina and welcome. Sounds like you have a decent plot there

      New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle

      ïŋ―I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
      ― Thomas A. Edison

      ïŋ―Negative results are just what I want. Theyïŋ―re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that donïŋ―t.ïŋ―
      ― Thomas A. Edison

      - I must be a Nutter,VC says so -

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      • #4
        Welcome to the vine

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        • #5
          Hi Nina,
          Sounds like some nice fruit already there, enjoy the plot.

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          • #6
            Hello and welcome to the vine Nina
            Location....East Midlands.

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            • #7
              Welcome and happy growing

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              • #8
                Hi Nina and family and welcome from me too.
                Say hello to Nigal for me - we may be related.

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                • #9
                  Hello and welcome, Nina. Sounds like you've got a good plot going. Best wishes for a great growing year.

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                  • #10
                    Hello Nina and a trumpeting welcome to the Vine.
                    I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

                    Outreach co-ordinator for the Gnome, Pixie and Fairy groups within the Nutters Club.

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                    • #11
                      Thanks

                      Thanks for the lovely welcome x

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                      • #12
                        Hi Nina and welcome! Nutty bunch of people here but I couldn't wish for a more friendly place

                        It sounds like you're making great progress! I hear ya about the bindweed (the vine looking barsteward weed that never gives up) - I have it too. I find that it's manageable and controllable on my no-dig plots, but must keep on top of it and constantly have a hoe ready to slice it off.

                        Good to have you here!
                        Last edited by Greenleaves; 25-05-2019, 05:40 PM. Reason: Slight change of spelling :)
                        https://nodigadventures.blogspot.com/

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                        • #13
                          Welcome to the vine, enjoy the benefits of the advice and humour

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