I am getting everyone hooked!!!

[vegtable newbie!]

On growing Veg that is - i have started a little vegtabe patch with my class. Also i have got my parents and the parents in law doing Veg!! The whole family are getting into it!!!

Chris (hubby) and i are trying to think of how we can re arrange our garden to have a green house and a proper little veg patch in!!! Whahoo!! My two pet bunnies are very pleased that i am growing veg - more for them!!! Although i think they are worried i will want the shed back!! We converted the whole shed for them so it is fox proff etc and a reall bunny palace!! I think they think i shall want it back!! Instead i have taken over the utility room!!

Sue
xx

[norazina]

Lucky you!!! While there is a teeny weeney chance I might get my mom interested, everybody else think I'm nuts and getting WAY to obsessed with gardening :-(

[ChrisB]

Is it possible to be too obsessed with gardening?

I don't think so

[norazina]

yeah, try to explain that to "city slickers"!!! my girlfriends still in shock that I'd rather "play with dirt" in the garden that go out shopping....lol

[JO,JO]

yep me too my oh starts going glassy eyed when i ramble on about the cabbages are doing great etc etc.nobody i know is interested like me and i find it very frustrating x

[lottie dolly]

yep me too my oh starts going glassy eyed when i ramble on about the cabbages are doing great etc etc.nobody i know is interested like me and i find it very frustrating x

you will just have to spend more time with the computor and the grapes ,we understand

[bazzaboy]

Never mind Jo Jo, always remember there's the best part of SIX THOUSAND people on this list interested in your cabbages even at 8 a.m. in the morning...! Which reminds me I haven't started any cabbages yet... which varieties are you growing in these latitudes?

I noticed recently a local garden centre was selling small trays of seedling carrots (I suspect grandad might turn in his grave at the thought, I'd turn in mine at the price...) so the GYO phenomenon must still be on the increase and more and more people getting interested. bb.

[HeyWayne]

You wait to see how many people you know are "interested" in gardening when you offer some free veg because you've grown too many.

[janeyo]

You are so right HW, people glaze over when I extol the virtues of my brill chooks but are happy to eat their free eggs! And it will be the same I am sure when my 45 or whatever it is brocolli are ready at the same time (got a little carried away )

janeyo

[bazzaboy]

You mean to say Wayne you never get comments like "They're different sizes" OR "Is that dirt on them?" OR EVEN "D'you mean I've got to cook it?" I read somewhere, possibly here, of the home grower who felt he had to wash, grade and wrap his stuff in poly bags in order to give it away.... Ah well...

Don't get me wrong coz my sympathies lie entirely with the free-rangers (and apologies if already covered coz I've been out of touch for a while, tried "Search" without finding any comments) but did you see the (fairly "scientific") taste test on battery vs free range poultry which battery won hands down...? Probably what folk get used to and therefore come to expect... taste and expectations change. Did we ever used to "drizzle oil"? Now everyone drizzles all the time.

I'm off now for breakfast... Shreddies (knitted by grannies) with drizzled olive oil....

bb

[samw04]

i'm doing quite well at converting people as well, 4 mth ago my mate would only buy ready washed spuds saying "i don't get excited about mud" now she uses her summer house as greenhouse and got loads of veg growing all over the place

[Flummery]

Well, after putting more time into the plot last year as I'd taken my early retirement package, I must have made a lot of veg noises because my son and son-in-law are now well stuck in!

[Pumpkin Becki]

I tell everyone about my allotment, I was even trying to convince one of our suppliers to give up work and become self sufficient on his dad's 20 acres!! Then I had to stop myself because I needed some stock from him!!

[Headfry]

what slightly bugs me is that I took some serious stick for being different and 'growing my own'
" oh you are just weired" (reminded me of my bullied school days)
thing is now that its 'fashionable' they all think its the best thing since sliced bread!
oh what short memories they have. I won't remind them of their earlier views on veg growing....I just smile to myself. Funny I got the same treatment for flying power kites....now they fly them....well once again short memories.
Funny old world really.
Thank goodness for the vine, a whole world of like minded people

[areia]

headfrys the trend setter
i was always picked on in school because i refused to be the same as everyone else well apart from the goth phase but then i took that on because when i was at school although you got picked on the bullies where also a little afraid of you ,
i've been growing veg offically since i was 20, i got a lot of stick but when my freinds came round for a barby in my small yard they where amazed how many veggies i could fit into such a small space and they would leave with some herb cuttings to grow in there kitchens etc. now some have moved into places with gardens they have taken up gardening, does make you feel good