A place for newbies to introduce themselves.

[Jeannine]

Hi, to all newbies, I have started this  this spot here so you can,  if you choose, come and  say Hi and introduce yourself and  tell us a bit about your garden etc. Often newbies get overlooked when saying hi in the other threads and I for one feel bad if I don't get chance to welcome them.  I will bump up the thread periodically and we can see how it goes.

XX Jeannine

[Jayb]

Congratulations on your new lottie like digging, welcome to a4a and good luck in your first year 

Hi goldendaisy123, welcome to the posting world of a4a, enjoy   

[Aden Roller]

Congratulations on your new lottie like digging, welcome to a4a and good luck in your first year 

Hi goldendaisy123, welcome to the posting world of a4a, enjoy   

I second that: Welcome!!! 

[SamLouise]

Congratulations on your new lottie like digging, welcome to a4a and good luck in your first year 

Hi goldendaisy123, welcome to the posting world of a4a, enjoy   

I second that: Welcome!!! 

I third it: welcome from me too!

[galina]

Welcome to mue, like digging and golden daisy.  Good to have you onboard.  Wish you lots of success and good gardening weather too.

[Rallychef]

Been lurking around the site for a while  now, time I think to introduce myself. We live the small village of Greystoke on the edge of The Lake District, I have been a keen general gardener, but never grown anything for the pot, however with more time on my hands now have decided to give it a go.
I was lucky enough to hear that Greystoke Castle Estates were making some long redundant allotment plots available, I just missed out but someone dropped out and I acquired my plot at the end of June,the allotments have not been used for growing for many years, but up until last year were the home to some chickens.
The plot is 30ft x 60ft and we have about half of it prepared now, some compost bays and a water but in. we managed to grow some bits last year but where just a bit late to get things going. We have the planting plans sorted for this year.

What we started with



Where we are at now


I'm sure we will be back with lots of questions,

Cheers for now
regards Ian D

[caroline7758]

Welcome, Rallychef! That looks like hard work- well done!

[pumpkinlover]

Welcome Rallychef, sounds a lovely location

[Jayb]

Hello Rallychef, welcome to A4A from me too. Wow what a difference 

[grawrc]

Welcome to A4A! Your plot looks quite splendid already! Good luck in the new growing season.

[rugbypost]

Take my hat off to you ,welcome to A4A

[Aden Roller]

Nice work Rallychef - it all looks rather lovely!

Good luck for the coming year. 

[cornykev]

A welcome to the madhouse from me too. 

[Mikeakabigman]

Hi folks,
Have lurked for a couple of days, so thought it was time to at least say hello 
To be honest I feel a little like a fraud in that I don't have an allotment at the moment. After 22 years in a tied house we finally decided to retire which mean't downsizing to a small apartment with only shared grounds and no veggie plot.
Quite a contrast from our old home which had a large garden front and back set in a surrounding of mixed woodland (I worked for the Forestry commission)
A large proportion of the garden was put down to veg with two 12x8 greenhouses and a chicken coop/ run
Needless to say, once the dust of moving and all that goes with it had died down, it wasn't very long before the urge to grow over came us, so we've added ourselves to the local waiting list for an allotment. Hopefully  we won't have wait to long !
Its only  fifteen minutes walk from where we live, so it will be ideal.(Positive thinking  )
Thats about it for now, I'm enjoying reading the threads and hope to contribute as time goes on.

[tomatoada]

Welcome from me too.  Look forward to seeing more pictures.  Can you put where you are under your name.

[goodlife]

Hi Mike and welcome. Nice to hear from our lurkers..
Keep checking the waiting list regular bases..just to see how things are moving on and who knows, if they think you are becoming a pest..they might push you forward on list to get you off from their backs..
Even if you don't have a lottie or big garden now to grow..there is always room here for more people...and well planned job is job half done.. So any questions or ideas from you previous growing experience is always welcome.
Are you going to have a go growing in tubs or some other way while waiting your plot?

[Jayb]

Hi Mikeakabigman, welcome to A4A, hope you are finding your way around 
I hope you get your lottie very soon 

[CambourneSandra]

Hi everyone, I joined last night and have been reading through the pages. We are complete newbies when it comes to growing stuff.
I am 31 married with 3 children. We moved out of the city into a village 9 miles west of Cambridge, and went on the waiting list about 6 months ago for an allotment. Much to our amazement we got our allotments a few days ago :-)

I have started a blog... here it is http://tyrer-allotment.blogspot.com/

Im sure I will be back asking lots of questions.

sandra and family

[manicscousers]

Hia, everyone who hasn't been here before and those who have lurked for a while, welcome to the mad house 

[goodlife]

Wow..only 6 months waiting!..well done and welcome..

[CambourneSandra]

Wow..only 6 months waiting!..well done and welcome..

i know i was shocked too... i was told there was a 10-12 month waiting list.  We are in a village of approx 3000 people and i think there are currently 140 allotment plots.
Our parish council are very pro active on plots that are not being looked after.