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New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 9:01 am
by dogman
Thought I'd join the forum rather than use my wife, Cheryls login (which she will re-submit at some point)

I'm a long time planter of 'stuff' in the garden (usually under supervision) and have somehow started to take an interest in the plants, rather than just how they look. I'm by no means an expert (far from it!) but am learning bits as we go along.


Andrew

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 9:40 am
by Blairs
Welcome Andrew

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:19 am
by tatter
Welcome Andrew. Ask away with any queries plenty of experts on the forum(but not me)

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 3:03 pm
by elge_onion
Hi Andy. Hope you are well.Have you been upgraded from hole digger? :D Xx Ele

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 3:47 pm
by DiCasS
Glad you decided to join Andrew. I don't think we have had a couple on here for a long time. Hope you enjoy the forum.

Di

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:44 pm
by Tom2006
Welcome! Most of us start the same way. Enjoy as you go along.

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 8:20 am
by dogman
elge_onion wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 3:03 pm Hi Andy. Hope you are well.Have you been upgraded from hole digger? :D Xx Ele
I'm sometimes allowed to water the plants now as well

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:29 pm
by Chez2
I'm back now.

Andrew, you hid your lack of interest in gardening from me for over thirty years! As we visited garden and nurseries together since 1984 I thought you liked gardening......not just went along with it because you wanted the garden to look nice.

He has been upgraded Ele; he's built me a fabulous polytunnel with heated sand bed. There is a fruit cage on the back to harden stuff off and protect them from the chooks. This heat has been very challenging but he's growing plants from seed now. Two years ago he wouldn't even help me prick stuff out.

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 2:49 pm
by dogman
Chez2 wrote: Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:29 pm This heat has been very challenging but he's growing plants from seed now.
It is a bit (make that a lot) hit and miss.

I might even have my Bismarkia Nobilis seeds germinating

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:51 am
by chainsaw kid
dogman wrote: Tue Jul 10, 2018 2:49 pm It is a bit (make that a lot) hit and miss.

I might even have my Bismarkia Nobilis seeds germinating
I hate to tell you this but you are bound sure to kill those off, even the best of us have done that. Try something a little less challenging. :roll: :lol: . Oh and by the way welcome in your own right. icon_thumleft

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:14 am
by dogman
chainsaw kid wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:51 am
dogman wrote: Tue Jul 10, 2018 2:49 pm It is a bit (make that a lot) hit and miss.

I might even have my Bismarkia Nobilis seeds germinating
I hate to tell you this but you are bound sure to kill those off, even the best of us have done that. Try something a little less challenging. :roll: :lol: . Oh and by the way welcome in your own right. icon_thumleft
And youtube makes it sound so simple .... oh well !

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:50 pm
by GREVILLEAJ
Chainsaw Kid is a spoilsport, Dogman. :ahhh!: Ignore his comment about Bismarkias. I have a much more positive approach......enjoy the challenge....then you can weep when they fail :?
(Other than that, just go for it and prove us all wrong :lol: )

New From South Yorkshire

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:08 am
by dogman
GREVILLEAJ wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:50 pm Chainsaw Kid is a spoilsport, Dogman. :ahhh!: Ignore his comment about Bismarkias. I have a much more positive approach......enjoy the challenge....then you can weep when they fail :?
(Other than that, just go for it and prove us all wrong :lol: )

I'd love for them to grow but if they did it would be more luck than judgement by the sounds of it. It does say that germination can take 8 months so I guess I have another good six months of delusion ahead of me