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Title: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: greenfingers 1970 on April 23, 2008, 18:08:10
Hi, I,m a newbie to this site and just wanted to say hello to everyone!
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: Patrick King on April 23, 2008, 18:11:09
welcome the forum, and have fun. also dont forget we wont pictures of your plot.  ;D
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: greenfingers 1970 on April 23, 2008, 18:14:56
Thanks, of course. Just as soon as I have embraced technology and worked out how to get the photos from my phone to the pc. lol :)
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: manicscousers on April 23, 2008, 18:21:19
hiya, greenfingers, nice to meet you, have you? got green fingers, I mean  ;D
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: greenfingers 1970 on April 23, 2008, 19:02:58
Hi manicscousers, nice to meet you.  Not literally green yet...... ;D
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: caroline7758 on April 23, 2008, 20:04:49
Hi greenfingers and welcome to the madhouse! We're a friendly lot here, feel free to ask anything!
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: Mr Smith on April 23, 2008, 20:18:57
Hi Greenfingers  :) :)
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: Trevor_D on April 23, 2008, 20:22:18
Hello. Where are you? (It makes a difference if you're ever stupid enough to ask for advice.)
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: Lauren S on April 23, 2008, 20:24:11
Hi Greenfingers and welcome from me too.

I don't know about greenfingers, mine always end up a ruddy red brown colour  ;D from the soil here  ;)

Lauren
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: Tatiana on April 23, 2008, 20:38:50
Welcome to the site!  :)
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: Suzanne on April 23, 2008, 20:46:33
Hi and welcome.  :)
I have to say the best advice I have had on growing stuff is from this site, plus you get to hear about so many different varieties of veg - just need to be careful you don't catch the seed addiction thats going around - its highly infectious.  ;D
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: carolinej on April 23, 2008, 20:48:11
Hello from me too ;D

QuoteNot literally green yet......

Just wait till you get to pinching out the sideshoots on your tomato plants ;D

cj :)
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: lorna on April 23, 2008, 21:05:04
Welcome from me, have fun.
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: Uncle Joshua on April 23, 2008, 21:07:59
Quote from: caroline7758 on April 23, 2008, 20:04:49
! We're a friendly lot here

They say that then force you to join some strange cult, they trapped me like that and now force me to work down a bean mine 23.5 hrs a day.

Welcome to the forum.  :)
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: posie on April 23, 2008, 21:42:57
Welcome - there is now no escape, the minute you logged in you were infected with the infectious seed collecting virus.  You are officially doomed to scour the shelves of any shop you go into.  I resisted for quite some time but have finally succumbed and today went to Morrisons for bread and left with 4 new packets of seeds..............but no bread.  ;D  Kids then took great delight in informing me in very loud voices in the car park, just how they were starving to death because of their mothers obsession!  ;)
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: saddad on April 23, 2008, 21:57:51
Welcome to the site Greenfingers... my nails have never been that colour, not even after pinching out all those tomato plants!!
;D
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: Need a Leek on April 24, 2008, 16:06:43
Hiya Greenfingers and welcome, weren't you in that Bond Film?. ;D

Cheers
Tony
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: markfield rover on April 24, 2008, 17:39:11
You will develop a 'need for seed'.
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: posie on April 24, 2008, 18:59:36
Quote from: markfield rover on April 24, 2008, 17:39:11
You will develop a 'need for seed'.

Ooooooooooooooo that's bad!!!  ;D
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: greenfingers 1970 on April 24, 2008, 19:25:15
Hi too all. Great to have such a warm welcome. My fingers aren't actually green yet and i haven't starred in a bond film either lol....However I am definately a seed collecting addict, nevermind shoes and handbags, give me a packet of seeds anyday! In fact my addiction stretches to plants, gardening books, garden shows and garden programmes...I've been told there's no hope ..... he he
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: cornykev on April 24, 2008, 19:33:30
Welcome to the asylum Greenfingers.  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: jaqz on April 28, 2008, 12:46:19
Hello! - welcome, im a newbie here too, and its a fantastic source of advise, ideas help  ???...... and the occasional "phew" :o when you think you have messed up ( leggy tomatoes) but realise all is not lost     (replant them deeper). So thanks to everyone here for a lovely community of advise!

Ive not grown anything for over 20 years, but now have a partner with an allotment (whats his is now mine  ;D) so im back at it full on, and what a joy it is to get back to growing, sowing and enjoying the journey of the plants and the cycles of the year.




Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: Lauren S on April 28, 2008, 13:37:11
Hellooooooo Jaqz and welcome aboard.
I can see you have your priorities correct...Finding a man who already has an allotment...well done to you  ;D  ;D  ;D

Lauren  8)
Title: Re: Newbie allotment addict saying hello.
Post by: star on April 28, 2008, 16:37:57
Yup you're well down the slippery slope, dont worry, we'll drag you under the rest of the way ;D ;D ;D ;D

Welcome from me too..........enjoy ;)