Hi everyone

[veggie mama]

I'm in central Scotland (Stirling) & have had this small garden (heavy clay)for a year & a half now. Been gardening for years but just ventured into veggies on a very small scale about 2 years ago & now I'm hooked!! My son (10 years old & hates veg) & husband are fed up listening to me so it's great to read all your news & ideas.

I put in a greenhouse, water butt, compost bin & a couple of small raised beds last summer. I've sown so many seeds this year you'd think I had a huge kitchen garden so I'm busy getting rid of grass & digging bigger borders to fit in all the stuff that's growing in the greenhouse & threatening to take over the world. I'll need to pace myself next year!

I want to get another couple of water butts in the garden, one on the garage/shed which will be ok but I'd like to get one for the house downpipe but all the ads I've seen have diverters/fittings for plastic pipes but mine are old metal ones, anyone know if these are easy to fit?

Thanks for listening!
Mary (veggie mama)

[barrie tough]

welcome mary.should be easy to,you could get advise at b&q.its very easy to get carried away allways plant to much.

[Alice]

Welcome to the Vine Veggie Mama. Just love your enthusiasm. If you go into your personal profile you can enter Stirling and we can all see where you are - it helps with climate related questions.

[Flummery]

Welcome! I bet you don't pace yourself next year! I seem to grow more every year. More of the things I like, more new things I haven't tried before. I have a large back garden veg plot but his year I was lucky enough to get half an allotment close by. - I still think I shall run out of room!

[mandyballantyne]

Hi Mary,

Welcome to the vine, glad to hear you are as hooked as the rest of us

I think you are the closest grape to me, I am in Bonnybridge so only about 10 miles away! What are you growing this year?

Mandy