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After reading and lurking here for ages I decided to give veggie growing a go.....  How fantastic is it??!!??? 

With advice from here I've got 8 large pots of first earlies bursting over.. yesterday (I am soooo pleased) I picked some cut and come again lettuce for my salad.

Peas, broad beans, radish and carrots growing outside, sweetcorn all germinated growing and waiting for the warmer weather...  Beetroot about to be planted out, spring onions growing up until large enough to plant out, ummmm what else??

Courgettes, squashes and pumpkins sown - waiting for them to germinate......  Waiting for runner beans to germinate too.

I am just soooo excited and love my veggie patch. It's a small corner of the garden - husband had to totally rabbit proof it before I could start (mutter mutter bl**dy rabbits). I just love it to bits, the rest of the garden is being ignored I'm afraid - mustn't forget it .....

Anyway - just to say thanks to you all for the encouragement given to others to kick-start me into action !

Alimo

Well done, Alimo - you have a love for life!

I agree.  Anyone who likes to raise stuff from seed must be an optimist and I never tire of seeing my seedlings breaking through the compost  ;D  My OH has never grown a plant from seed in his life and he'll soon be 50  :o  Now I've got an allotment I'm going to try and get him to sow something.  I've bought him some radishes and I'm going to see if I can persuade him to sow them.  He seems really unwilling to have a go and I can't understand why.  Just a miserable old so and so perhaps  ;D

wardy-i have the same pronblem!oh quite lieks the garden but never wants to grow anything-he'll build me things like rsaised beds and stuff but if it was a wilderness i dont think hed notice!
what are they like ay? ;)
we are heading for 50.....rapidly..... too.....-tho-fronm your foto,unless you are wearing extremely well or have a portrait in the attic you arent that old!!!here we are talking like old buffers and theres tim could put us to shame with his energy! ;)
spritely you are tim! ;D
kitty
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portrait in t'attic  ;D

 ;D

I know exactly how you feel Alimo, I am currently sharing the same excitement.

Nice one Alimo...just be careful with the Mexican creeds.

You're excited growing them?

You wait til you eat them :P

as Alan Tichmarsh once quoted "I cannot any less stop breathing than I can be a gardener" Brought a tear to my eye!

I'm sooo excited (newbie allotmenteer)......cos at the plot today I saw that my early potatoes, my first ever crop, are sprouting through the surface, got quite a buzz from that (though I did plant some garlic in the Autumn and that's going really well too). Have just sown some Early Onward peas and mange tout - hope to see them sprouting soon too!

This site is fantastic! Everyone is so enthusiastic and supportive of neophyte lottie growers like me. My inherited Field now looks like a lottie after 4 months of digging and every available windowsill in the house has seedlings popping up. I just can't wait to harvest and cook my produce. Supermarket veg won't be appearing on my table again!
Keep up the good work and death to all slugs!!!

We are the same. The beetroot was up under the cloche and the broad beans getting really substantial looking. I got very excited.

The other half says he will only get excited once he starts eating the produce! He is keen on digging and shovelling and WEEDING!! and making paths etc.. but won't plant anything!!!! I guess I should be grateful for someone to do the hard work!

Pots in tubs are up and doing well - taking a little longer in the ground though.

My OH won't sow or plant anything and I can't understand it.  So what if it doesn't grow!  I can't understand him.  He isn't a person though that gets excited at things which is a pity I reckon.  I still wait eagerly for my seeds to show and I still get the same buzz everytime.  They should bottle it!  :)

Perhaps it is fear of failure if they don't succeed.... ::)

So am I...I put some pots in a pot and just seen the first green shoots through...yes...bring it on...wahoo..ahem sorry..I thought they'd given up, my first veggie growing in these huge tubs I managed to get, so they are working. I've usually done the usual toms etc in grow bags...Aha this year its the BIG boys. Go for it Alimo.

I agree Westsuss.  Though why be afraid to fail?  I'm not.  There's lots can fail when growing stuff but one setback doesn't mean we stop.  It makes us all the more keen to have another go.  I shall keep trying to get him to sow or plant something and I think once he's seen a seedling emerge he'll be hooked like the rest of us.  However,  I pointed out some seedlings just emerging this morning (calendula and broc).  No reaction at all  :(  The man has no soul  ;D

Seems like a lot of our men are the same - Paul's more than happy to make raised beds, composters, put slabs down and willingly(ish!! ;D) digs and weeds but when it comes to planting anything its another story. I asked him to put some red onion sets in the other week and he looked at them like they could bite him and said no chance!! We'll have to see which of us can be the first to tempt them into planting something...

Good idea!  It's got to be something not too fiddly, eg runner bean our courgette seed, or radish.  Something they really like to eat.  Let me know how you get on

Wardy

thats a good idea-do budweisers grow in a plot then? ::)