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How old are we on here    ;D

ages of Gardeners on here ?

Not sure if you intended to overlap the 35-45 and 40-60 ??  Some of us would fall into either or both!! :)

This should be interesting! ;D

this should be good :D are people going to put there ages as well or just vote  ;)

 ;D ;D Bus pass next year, cheaper to get to work.  Can't afford to retire  ::) ::)

48 today  ;D

Happy Birthday Hunnybee, hope you have had a festive day.

Happy birthday to you, you are only a baby.  Lucky you.

lol, thanks you two, In my mind I do feel like a baby Borlotti but the reality of my age today makes me wonder where time has gone  :o

Woo hoo, I feel like a whipper snapper!! And THAT is why I am always seeking advice!!  ;D

I hit the big 40 in january :o. My 21st only feels like yesterday

I'm 36.. just a boy according to my allotment neighbour (88)

41 this year

im 25 by the way

A young at heart 61!

Happy birthday Honeybee!

Happy birthday Honeybee it must be an old piccie you bearly look in your forty's  ;)  as for the vote I fall in two categories so what do I do.  ;D ;D ;D

Happy Birthday Honeybee  ;D ;D

I'm 42 - By the time I've finished all the digging I need to do I'll probably look 92!

Thanks again guys, and I love you Cornykev  ;D :-*... and no my pic is not an old one lol  ;D

They were guessing my age at work the other day, the best 33 .... the worst 43, it made an old bird happy   ;D

I'm 48 this time too, but still got a few months to go...  ;D

I'm 34 and a half - that sounds better than being nearly 35!  ;D

Old enough to know better, but not too old to misbehave from time to time  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

42 in May, just pulled out my 5th grey hair!!

Weed-Digga

should be 57 this year but I'm going backwards now so 55  ;D ;D

35 ... so I too fall into two agegroups on here. Its a real shock to be moving from the 25-34 to the 35-49 groups on some surveys.

Happy birthday honeybee, you are just a babby

50 soon,still feel like a 20 year old... but with my back ...best not. :P ;D

But, there's no option for TGG to click (0-14)  ;)

I am 36 years young 8) 8)  Looking good,  feeling fit.  Sorry ladies I am already taken. ;D ;D ;D

Sorry I missed your Birthday Honeybee, hope it was a good day for you.

Yahoo! 75 in September, get a free TV licence 8)

 ;D  going well


i,m        45 by the way   :D

33 years old but have been tending to my garden for the last 6 years.

My neighbors (who dislike any form of gardening unless it involves mono-blocking, shooting at the bluetits with a pellet-gun and using a chainsaw to cut down the tiniest shoot that dares to lean over their fence...) told me recently during a heated discussion that they think I am a posh poof (their words, not mine) because I am English and I like to spend my time in the garden. In their view, apparently, a young lad like me would be better either in the pub or watching football, or both ideally. That just makes me garden even more vigorously - especially when it comes to choosing lovely tall plants to grow on my side of the fence...

Fork is 52  :o

Old Bird is 59!!!  Mentally still 21!

Shirl is 63 in June and ower Tone is 80 next month.

29....I think I will stick :P

The big 30! and I don't like it one bit  >:(

28 me but i feel 50....lol

38 (physically)

But I prefer to follow the advert that says "act your shoe size, not your age".....therefore I am 6 and loving it. ;D

CC

45 and feeling it today after more digging.  :) :)

21 :P ;D

42, cant quite work out how that happened :(

lbb

Tone you old cradle snatcher you.  ;D ;D ;D  :-*

25

I Am 77 but the saying is ''you are as old as the woman you feel'' as my wife is 39 I am 39 also :D

   Gotta confess,  67 not so long ago  ---   trouble is , still think I can do things

   of someone less than that  --  nothing to do with ego,  just the mind being willing, etc

   It's OK though, happy in my socks !      ;)

    floss xxx 

Are not most of our birthdays in the Calendar?

I`m 55-and my back tells me-but I can flirt-oh wrong board ;D

36, my birthday is next month. Can't work out how the calender works?

42 and deffo feel it today ::)

hit the big Five - O last year!! ;)

31 here but always remember that growing old is mandatory whereas growing up is optional ;D

Quote from: tonybloke on March 31, 2009, 21:04:38
hit the big Five - O last year!! ;)

Same here!

Too old for Ibiza, too young for Saga.

My sister's just become a grandmother which makes me officially Great.

No change there then.

;D

so who saw "deal or no deal" last night
were Joe at a young spritley 97 years showed wots it like to be happy at 97. he has been through two world wars
he took the banker for £20,000
joe dindnt wont all the money he was trying to get as mutch as he could for the chelsea pention fund

WOT A TOP GEAZZER  ;D ;D

well im 38 this november the 16 th if anyone wants to send me a card as there is nothing better than one arriving on your doorstep unexpectedly hint hint

no sorry feeling good expect many years of digging yet touch wood where is my spade oh yes in the shed

Quote from: mike77 on March 31, 2009, 21:21:25
31 here but always remember that growing old is mandatory whereas growing up is optional ;D

Must remember that quote ;D

43 in a couple of weeks. Not too old for Ibiza though  ;D ;D ;D

I think I was born too old for Ibiza....  :-X

I'm 54 but my gorgeous litlle helper ( granddaughter ) is 3 and a half so she doesn't fit in the poll?

43 but im able to take anything on upto the age of 50  ;D

im 20, got my plot when i was 19

So Patrick at 19/20 must be the youngest?

And Amazin - at 110 by now - must be the oldest?

angel shades is 117  ;D ;D ;D

Tim you're asking for a dancin carrot where you don't want a dancin carrot.

38 for me (although feel 22!)   ;D

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.

Not sure about Carrots, but I've been assisting growing since I was 10, in Father's Small Holding near Evesham & Market Garden in Jersey.

Cheap labour!!

Quote from: saddad on April 03, 2009, 09:22:57
I think I was born too old for Ibiza....  :-X

:)

Quote from: melann on April 03, 2009, 12:54:48
43 but im able to take anything on upto the age of 50  ;D

Are you talking about yourself or women aged up to 50?!  :)

Phew, have just sneaked in on the 40-60 group.  Trying not to panic, but in a months time and I will have moved from a possible 40 on to anything up to 100, ouch.   :o

Worst thing about approaching 60 is trying to get a flattering photo for the bus pass

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 (http://www.cambridge-ctc.org.uk)

Quote from: Larkshall on April 13, 2009, 08:17:07
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 (http://www.cambridge-ctc.org.uk)

That's definitely cheating.... I like it!

Quote from: MickW on April 10, 2009, 22:09:29
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.

a poll on how old do you realy feal , or how old is your mind, how old is your body, i think that would be interesting

im 47 in a week,s time 23 april ST georges day (hint hint)
but i have the mind of a 18
the body of a 30
aches and pains of a 60

but im happy that's wot matters
8)

i'm 22 in a few weeks and petrified of getting old!! aah

Quote from: RosieMcPosie on April 17, 2009, 14:43:20
i'm 22 in a few weeks and petrified of getting old!! aah

Get a way u wiper snapper  ;D

35!

Lucky old you, Larkshall - I'm not allowed to cycle - or fly for that matter - in case they lose my pension!!

Quote from: MickW on April 10, 2009, 22:09:29
I'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....

Only a young 63.

Fifty ten ;D ;D

Quote from: Hyacinth on April 17, 2009, 20:42:13

Quote from: MickW on April 10, 2009, 22:09:29
I'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....

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,47325.0.html (http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,47325.0.html) ;)

Im 65yrs in body 21yrs in mind and been growing vegetables since I was 11 yrs old

Hehe - not gone up an "age-band"

 :) Dirty Thirty