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I think I was born too old for Ibiza.... :-X
43 but im able to take anything on upto the age of 50 ;D
80 last month, only two older (apart from the silly ones, over 100). Still cycling with our pensioner group, about 30 - 40 miles on a Tuesday, to pub lunch and back. When it's further I take the car to the Park & Ride then cycle. I run the pensioner group so I can arrange the lunch venue's.www.cambridge-ctc.org.uk
I'm 40...Would a poll on how long we'd been growing be better? I have been growing veg since I was 7 so 33 years.
i'm 22 in a few weeks and petrified of getting old!! aah
I'm 40...Would a poll on how long we'd been growing be better?
Quote from: MickW on April 10, 2009, 22:09:29I'm 40...Would a poll on how long we'd been growing be better? Yes, I think it would......how long and WHY? There's so much growing (geddit? ::)) awareness today & it would be interesting to see how this has permeated the general consciousness...For me....home-grown , with all possible imperfections from nibbly insects, etc. but free of pesticides & fresh from the garden is best!So.....how long for me?....well, (cos I'm a VERY Old Lady!).....since 1972 or thereabouts when I was gifted my first runner-bean plants when I came back to live in the UK and had great success......this was the year, also , when I was gifted my first ever rhubarb crown - which I planted upside down (see 'rhubarb' thread in Edibles & 'Dad's remark that it takes a lot to flummox rhubarb!!!!) and, bless it, it survived for 2 years before I was told to re-plant it right way up!!!My point to all this...and previous threads about age/why. etc.....is to establish the sign of the times? For me, bluntly, unless one was a 'Gentleman Gardener' (Tim would have come under this catagory cos of his familial Market Gardners link..) in my family, back then in the mists of time, if one grew ones own veggies, be it on a 'lotment or in one's garden, one was a loser! Someone who, patently, couldn't afford to support one's family except through scratching in the soil?And so, now, I reckon I'm a family Ground Breaker 8)..I broke that mold back then....I didn't have to do it - but did it for FUN? (Don't think that 'fun' apart from growing roses/n/stuff, entered into the family psyche then.....So.....back to the top (finally!!) WHEN did you start growing your own - and WHY? would interest me more....