Those of you who were using the site around this time last year will remember that our dear friend Sarah was very ill and sadly died on 1 March. Sarah brought a lot of joy to many posters here with her wit and wisdom, not to mention her generosity when it came to sharing seeds. I’m sure you’ll wish to join me in sparing a few moments to think of her family and close friends as the anniversary of her death approaches. A very special lady who is sadly missed but will never be forgotten.
G x
I do remember Sarah from this and another site, she was such a lovely lady. I only spoke to her a few times and was deeply saddened by her passing.
Thanks for posting Georgie
she used to make me laugh so much, didn't know her long enough :-\
hope her family are okay :)
I'll be thinking of her when we officially get the second plot.
I will sow in late spring, the Cherokee Trail of Tears that I was going to give her last year (I missed her at Christmas).
gosh almost a year already!!!
Gone, missed and not forgotten :)
She was the first person to send me a PM I think, I found her to be very welcoming when I first joined . Sadly she died shortly after we met on A4A , however in the short time we had the chance to chat she left a remarkable impression on me. Her true warmth and generosity is seldom found .I believe she is someone I would love to have been great friends with.
XX Jeannine
Georgie, as you say a very special lady. Sarah PM'd me shortly after I joined A4A. She told me that she often went to Downham Market and would willingly come to March to bring me some "hop muulching". As you know daughter had a horse so was receiving plenty of horse manure. I wish I had taken up her offer if only to meet this special lady.
I was busy "lurking" both on here and another site, and never had the pleasure of "speaking"to Supersprout (really wish I had)
I spend alot of time searching the archives for advice, and will have a bittersweet smile when I find her in a new thread, normally with exactly what I'm looking for, plus the humor and warmth that made her so special.
I hope it's of some comfort to her friends on here and her family to know that she's still being appreciated, and missed, by people who never had the honor of calling her their friend.
A lovely lady whose warmth and generosity of spirit will always be treasured.
Ditto!
I still have the bright orange gardening gloves I was going to send her................and a PM from her I just can't delete :-\
Amazin said it all.
I still have her pm's in my inbox both here and at allotmentsnstuff. I know she is sadly missed in both places - a very special lady. :(
That is so sad, as i recall the name. God bless her, gone, but never forgotten.
My love to her family and friends.
She had the great gift of making everyone feel special and always had time for you no matter what you wanted to discuss. She gave generously without counting the cost.
So SO glad that we met.
Quote from: tim on February 07, 2008, 08:31:08
So SO glad that we met.
Yes, definitely. Just hope my son didn't bash her brand new cake tin,, which was bought at the garden centre where we met up, too much! It was a half-term before Christmas and the tin was for Christmas cake. She even showed me her box of seeds - it was in one of those personal filing box folder thingies.
I still have her phone number on my mobile.
I was feeling a bit silly because I couldn't delete her PM to me but I see i'm not the only one. I first 'met' her on the BBC site and soon recognised that she was over here too as she had such a distinctive style. Always one of the first to respond to a query and quick to offer help. Such a lovely person.
I think of her whenever I use my supersprouter
Amazing, I still have a PM from her that I felt was wrong to delete!!
We had the most amazing 10 foot plus Jerusalem Artichoke from JA's that she sent me, I didn't get the chance to 'know' her for long but it was obvious straight away that this was a special lady.
Sadly missed by all those who knew her well and those who didn't have the chance to know her better.
very much missed!!
Quote from: redclanger on February 06, 2008, 23:32:12
I still have her pm's in my inbox both here and at allotmentsnstuff. I know she is sadly missed in both places - a very special lady. :(
Me too Ady! :) :'(
Many were the cheerful posts exchanged, wisdom, seeds and recipes ...
I don't think I will ever be able to look at sunflowers again without thinking of her :D
RIP My Lovely :-*
I too still have a PM from her which I can't bear to delete. She is still very much missed and when I see my squash ( I got of her seeds last year), stacked up in my porch I remember her. She has left us all with very happy memories as well as sadness she is no longer here in person. busy_lizzie
I have copies of Sarah's emails which I put onto a word document for safekeeping. I never actually met her but she was so helpful and welcoming especially when I first joined A4A that I looked on her as a very good friend.
Life can be so cruel sometimes especially when someone like Sarah is no longer with us, but her memory will live on for many years to come.
I cannot believe it's a whole year ago! Sarah left a great legacy in terms of seeds and advice all over the country. I was left thinking how privileged I was to have known of such a special woman.
Hope Will is ok, thanks for reminding us Georgie.
Although I never met her, I have certainly had plenty of advice from her. I felt privilegedt o attend her funeral and hear about all her other talents, too. I'm looking forward to "Groww your own" being shown again to see her in action. :'(
a wonderful person who I really miss, who was always positive and supportive, and who mulched for Britain ;D/ shades x
Quote from: caroline7758 on February 07, 2008, 17:11:53
Although I never met her, I have certainly had plenty of advice from her. I felt privilegedt o attend her funeral and hear about all her other talents, too. I'm looking forward to "Groww your own" being shown again to see her in action. :'(
I'm not sure if I'm reading this right or not, are you saying she was on a programme? And that it's going to be shown again? I may have misunderstood this so apologies if I have! :)
I still have Sarah's aka Supersprouts pm's and the seeds that she so generously shared. We had planned to have a squash growing comparison last year, planting them on 16th April, but she wasn't around to do that and sadly the weather was so awful that Barbara Butternut did not produce any fruit.
KT I am sending some of Sarah's Marketmore seeds to you - still spreading around the country ;D
Always remembered. I hope her son is doing OK
Like others I can't believe how time has passed, SS will definatly be missed but never forgotten. Sarah was on one episode of grow your own. Long live the mulch. ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: flowerlady on February 07, 2008, 13:51:02
Quote from: redclanger on February 06, 2008, 23:32:12
I still have her pm's in my inbox both here and at allotmentsnstuff. I know she is sadly missed in both places - a very special lady. :(
Me too Ady! :) :'(
me too
Georgie - do you have Will's last address? I wiped it off. He might like to see the thread??
Sarah was one special person. Full of good sense, knowledge and fun. Always seem to be smiling despite her gruelling last months. .
Quote from: tim on February 07, 2008, 19:51:57
Georgie - do you have Will's last address? I wiped it off. He might like to see the thread??
Tim. I've alerted one of Sarah's close friends to this thread and I'm going to email Will as well. As far as I know Will is okay. He's been travelling since he graduated and I think he was due back in the country last month.
G x
She was such a lovely lady.
Like so many others on this site I just cannot bring myself to delete her PM to me. I had sent her some cyclamen corms, and she was so delighted with them.
I am one of many who only met her on the web, but miss her terribly.
Tim, it would be appreciated if you could post that lovely photo of Sarah that you posted shortly after her death.
valmarg
I'm another with pm's from her, Jerusalem fartichokes from her, and seeds from her. I think about her often and do miss her.
Yet another here who can't bring herself to delete the PMs. She pointed me toward the mulch and I've been a convert ever since. I think of her every time I gaze upon my straw strewn plot and I smile. One of the nicest people I've met through cyber space or in real life. I do miss her posts too. I find it hard to think she was going through that terrible illness and no-one would have guessed there was anything amiss.
I, too, have wonderful memories of our mulch-mad Sarah and was sad when I realised that I had deleted her PM's to me shortly before we were told she was so ill. I have a Victoria plum tree dedicated to her and often think of how she enriched so many lives. A lovely lady indeed.
Tricia
Thanks for starting this Georgie.
Think of Sarah often. We went on a few garden visits together, used to chat about a really wide range of subjects. Remember being so pleased when she asked me for a recipe, cos she'd had a go herself and hadn't quite got it as the jars I gave her. I swore her to secrecy, of course ;D
She was good fun to be with. Not an angel, no paragon of virtue - she was just normal - really nice, really normal if you understand what I mean. I thought she was a bit "posh" when we first met, and told her so. We made it into a ongoing joke, and she bought me a little book called A Plain Cookery Book for The Working Classes. I'd given her JA's and she was mildly concerned at the "wind" effect, and did a fair bit of research on antidotes. She said she was going to give them to mates and wanted to be ready with answers. I reckon the world and his missus have got some of those JA's now, they must have grown like wildfire on her plot.
That was Sarah, do miss her.
I often think of Sarah when I'm pottering in the garden, what a special lady
Thank you all for your thoughtful replies. I've emailed a link to this thread to Will. I hope he sees it.
G x
Hello Everyone :)
I haven't been around for a while but today I have been busy at the allotment sorting out my seeds ready for Spring.
I found a few envelopes of seeds that Super had sent me - and like a few of you, I hadn't thrown them away after I'd planted them because just looking at her handwriting on the packets and her little diagrams of the squashes made me smile.
I decided to throw the packets away this year :( Making fresh starts etc. But seeing this thread made me dig a little brown envelope out of the bin.
Supersprout's seeds for Vegetable Spaghetti! With a little picture of the fruit drawn by her (Fawn/yellow coloured according to her label!) & the lovely handwritten instructions ...
"Grow your own spaghetti! Vegetable spaghetti from Italy!" (With a little smiley!)
"Plant +15 degrees, 2cm deep, 60cm between plants"
"Boil or bake (40 mins approx) discard seeds, scoop out spaghetti!"
And wouldn't ya know it! There are 2 seeds still left in there .. hiding at the bottom of the envelope ;D
Trix XXXXX
Thanks for starting this thread Georgie, i can't believe it's almost a year ago either :o
I didn't know supersprout in person, only on this forum, but learned so much from her posts and advice. I think it's lovely that her words of wisdom are still here for us to appreciate, it sort of feels like she's still here with us, helping with mulching advice & recipes & piccies of all that lovely passata :P
Love and prayers to her family x
I only knew her through this forum and again she was one of the first to contact me
such a lovely person
always seems we lose the good ones first !
missed but not forgotten
BB :(
Kitten I will forever be indebted to your strap line 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened'. That's how I think of Sarah.
G x
I only had the privilege of meeting her once, but her generosity, vigour and warmth will remain in my memory for ever ...
Just bumping this thread up again for the benefit of those who may have missed it.
G x
Perhaps on 1st March, we could all spend a few moments remembering how much we loved her, and how much we miss her.
valmarg
Big smile,big heart and big boobs ;D As I sit here where she once sat it`s her courage that makes me smile and gives me the strength to think that the weeks ahead will pass and I will get on my garden again before so very long
Hey Stefan your post is so in the spirit of Sarah! Very much her sense of humour.
I didn't know you were feeling poorly. Sorry to hear it. I hope things are picking up for you.
I've hardly done any gardening since the end of October as my own Mum has been very poorly and yesterday we took her to a hospice. I mentioned to a very close group of friends that a year ago we had been worrying about Sarah and one of the girls pointed me towards this thread as I've not been doing much surfing lately.
Sarah is never far from my thoughts, I have a whole crop of her JAs that haven't yet been harvested and a couple of stalks that escaped the January gales are still standing to attention back in Glasgow. I too have her cards and seed envelopes and a fair few pms telling me what to do with my JAs.
I do miss Sarah a lot and it seems uncanny that a year on, she is still helping me cope. She is/was a lovely lady and I will always remember her fondly.
I hope she's at the gate to greet Mum.
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Good to see you popping in Joanne. I am chuffed to be a "member" of your group of friends and I hope as a group we have been some comfort to you over the past few months.
As I mentioned before I didn't know Sarah that well but the thoughts and memories of so many people just proves what a special lady she was. I bet Mum will get a big hello from Sarah.
Love Lorna. xx
Thank you to Georgie for this thread and to all contributors. I’ve seen your glowing comments about Sarah, and appreciated your concern for her friends beyond this group â€" both over the past couple of weeks and last year.
In the early days of Sarah’s allotment she was delighted to find A4A. At the end of a session on the plot she might have been tired but was able to enjoy sharing experiences here. When she visited me she would take time out to get on the computer to talk to what she then called, with characteristic wit, ‘my imaginary friends’ ;). Then over time she met some of you, exchanged seeds, PMs etc. and you were no longer imaginary but very real and precious. Y’all added an extra dimension to the fun she got from the allotment. I know you enjoyed her contributions here. I also know how important this group was to her.
We’ve just passed the anniversary of Sarah’s last visit to her allotment. She wasn't able to stay long. She supervised the digging of JAs that were to be shared with several of you around the country. That just about sums it up. Incidentally, she also planted out some seedlings. Optimists amongst you may like to celebrate Sarah’s life on her birthday â€" appropriately in springtime, April 14th.
Again, thank you all for making this such a supportive community.
C_P x
Thanks for that, C_P, very nicely put, altho' I can't imagine what Sarah would have said about the strange punctuation that has appeared in your post now and which certainly wasn't there the first time I read it. ??? ;D
Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know that I had an email from Will today. He's well. He said how much he enjoyed reading all your comments and that it was so nice to see that his mum is still remembered fondly.
G x
;D
Glad Will is ok, wonder if he knows how many total strangers think of him often?
Still cannot believe it's a whole year ago..
Quote from: katynewbie on February 27, 2008, 23:37:16
;D
Glad Will is ok, wonder if he knows how many total strangers think of him often?
Still cannot believe it's a whole year ago..
Me too. Xxx to you Will.
How old was Sarah Please?
Not at all. She was 50 when she died ... but she had crammed a lot of living, learning and loving into those years!
Fingers crossed for enduring punctuation, ???
C_P x
Sarah was with me in Spirit last weekend, i layed a bale of straw on the plot! Should've seen her laughing.....x
would like to propose a toast to Supersprout may she rest in peace