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Title: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: a.buaras on February 03, 2006, 19:33:25: Alert first post!!
6 months of hard labour, back-breaking digging :P with only a wind-up radio (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/06.jpg) for company and this is what this first-time allotmenteer's got to show for it...

1 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/01.jpg)
2 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/02.jpg)
3 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/03.jpg)
4 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/04.jpg)
5 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/05.jpg)
6 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/08.jpg)
7 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/10a.jpg)
8 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/09.jpg)
9 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/9a.jpg)
10 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/10.jpg)
11 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/14.jpg)
12 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/15.jpg)
13 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/16.jpg)
14 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/17.jpg)

what do you guys think ???
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: Dan 2 on February 03, 2006, 19:40:28: Welcome to the boards!

WOW!!! :o :o
You've done a brilliant job! LOADS of potential there! A big well done and lots of happy gardening and growing!

Dan ;D
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: Paulines7 on February 03, 2006, 19:44:38: You have done a wonderful job there a.buaras. I look forward to seeing further pics when you have it planted up. :D

Welcome to A4A, you will find plenty of support on here.
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: grawrc on February 03, 2006, 20:35:56: Looks to me like you've been working really hard. Also looks like you know what you're doing. ;)
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: dandelion on February 03, 2006, 20:43:06: Looking good :)! I hope mine will look like that in 6 months (probably not!)
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: katynewbie on February 03, 2006, 20:48:07: ???

WOW!!!!!!!! Now feel very inadequate (not a new feeling!) and standing back in awe!!!

Well done you!!

Looking forward to the pics to come over the next season.
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on February 03, 2006, 22:33:02: You've done masses of work there, but watch those rough grass paths, they'll be reservoirs of couch if you're not careful.
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: Mimi on February 04, 2006, 09:20:27: You may be new to allotments Buaras but that shovel and fork have seen a bit of action somewhere in the past. ;) Excellent job there.
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: GREENWIZARD on February 04, 2006, 09:38:11: (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/GREENWIZARD/wow.gif)
you must have a cast iron back ;) ;D
well done a.b
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: agapanthus on February 04, 2006, 10:49:09: Amazing.!.....give yourself a well earned pat on the back ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: Travman on February 04, 2006, 11:33:17: Dont think i would have tackled that plot !
Well done ;)
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: Svea on February 04, 2006, 12:23:11: well done.
did yo manage to grow anything at all in the last season? lettuces or some such?
i admire your enthusiasm for keeping up such hard work fur such a long time
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: a.buaras on February 05, 2006, 18:35:38: Quote from: Svea on February 04, 2006, 12:23:11
well done.
did yo manage to grow anything at all in the last season? lettuces or some such?
i admire your enthusiasm for keeping up such hard work fur such a long time
the last 6 months was spent preparing the soil because it was very heavy and compact clay and needed rotten manure for conditioning. I'll start planting this month.

wish me luck :)
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: mm-b on February 05, 2006, 19:45:23: Brilliant :) :)
You should be very proud.
keep us posted
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: loulou on February 05, 2006, 20:00:57: wow ;D wow ;D and wow ;D again your plot looks amazing please keep us up to date with your progress and i hope to get mine to half the standard of your whats your secret please tell once again wow :D :D ;D ;D
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: a.buaras on February 08, 2006, 18:40:33: latest addition
15 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/PICT0007.jpg)
16 (http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/AGbuaras/PICT0008.jpg)
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: Zippy Seale on February 08, 2006, 21:09:40: a nice bench up at the end, and I can see you sitting there with a flask of tea, watching your veg grow.
have a bumper crop, and enjoyment.
good luck.
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: grawrc on February 08, 2006, 21:25:06: You have really transormed your plot. Very impressive! What part of the country are you in?
Title: Re: newbie's 6 months work....
Post by: a.buaras on February 09, 2006, 08:31:11: Quote from: grawrc on February 08, 2006, 21:25:06
You have really transormed your plot. Very impressive! What part of the country are you in?
Thanks

My plot is in Middlesex, Harrow