GYO Rocks!!!

[lzyjo]

Hi All,

I am so glad I found this forum!

I live and garden in Tennessee with my husband and our crazy little mutt. This is only my second year gardening. I have a large vegetable garden on our landlord's farm. And I also grow tropical plants from seed.

I wanted to say, (since I live in the states) that you Brits are far more conscientious about the way you live. You all have such beautiful allotments and I love readying everybody's blogs.

[HeyWayne]

Hi All,

I am so glad I found this forum!

I live and garden in Tennessee with my husband and our crazy little mutt. This is only my second year gardening. I have a large vegetable garden on our landlord's farm. And I also grow tropical plants from seed.

I wanted to say, (since I live in the states) that you Brits are far more conscientious about the way you live. You all have such beautiful allotments and I love readying everybody's blogs.

Welcome aboard lzyjo (is that Polish? Czech?)

Unfortunately not all Brits are as conscientious as most people on this forum, we have our fair share of Ostrich's and Numbskulls.

Glad you like it here - wish we had a bit of Tennessee weather at the minute (spokkily, as I typed that the sun started to break through the clouds - alas, in the time it's just taken me to type that next bit, it's clouded over!).

Get yourself blogging so we can have a nose at yours.

[mandyballantyne]

Hi,


Welcome to the vine, as HeyWayne said can we have some pics please

Mandy

[Dave]

Welcome to The Grapevine!

Have you got a blog we can check out? We'd love to the tropical plants you've got growing.

Dave

[Flummery]

Whooo - you rock too - you got Dave out from under his plantpot! Nice to talk to a member from so far away. What are you growing this season?

[HeyWayne]

Whooo - you rock too - you got Dave out from under his plantpot! Nice to talk to a member from so far away. What are you growing this season?

Nah, look, he's snuck back in again!

[shirlthegirl43]

Hello lzyjo. Looking forward to reading more about your growing experiences in Tennessee.

[lzyjo]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Oh man you all are so funny! I could read on all day. No, I'm not a czech. My real name is Elizabeth Smith, quite a boring name. liz or lzyjo is just a nickname. I've tried to add a link to my blog link in my signature thingy, but I'm not sure if it worked.

I've got a rather late start on the season; since I had to work up some nerve to ask the landlord to plow up a bit for me. I just harvested my first lettuce, Woohoo!! I am growing some Asian veggies. Several kinds of Indian eggplants, (small round ones and long skinny ones) bitter melon, ridge gourd. Various summer and winter squash, carrots, corn, beets, green beans, and broccoli and cauliflower, if I can make them grow fast enough before the refractory heats up.

Here's a link to my blog, until i figure out the right place to put it.Worms and Flowers

Oh, and I vermicompost. Not sure if the worms are hiding, or if I've killed them all.

[Two_Sheds]

Just to confuse you some more, I sent you a Private Message. Have a look at the top right hand corner of your page

[Two_Sheds]

I just looked at your blog ~ nice. Looks like you had our weather yesterday ... sheeting down.

[Flummery]

Just sneaked a look too. What beans are you growing? Two-sheds and I are competing for the Bean Queen crown (but she's got it!- THIS YEAR!)

[lzyjo]

I have contender and French filet bush type string beans. I've been doing a lot of reading on the grapevine and I've been inspired to try broad beans and sunchokes. For whatever reason, many vegetables are overlooked in American gardens.

[gemlady]

Hi Izyjo and welcome Enjoyed your blog and the pics. Hope you found enough room for all those seeds you planted (seems like a lot of us have fallen into that trap) but everything tastes much better when you've grown it yourself!

[Flummery]

Broad beans are WONDERFUL and very varied. This year I'm growing a short variety called The Sutton (because I got fed-up of constantly tying up my 6ft tall variety last year!), a red seeded one (Red Epicure), a violet seeded one (Violetta) and the old fashioned Crimson Flowered, kindly sent to me by Muckdiva here on the vine. They are lovely plants, nice, glaucous leaves and big, sumptuous pods. (Find me medication someone!)

[lzyjo]

Learning

Oh, I am learning so much already! I didn't even know what a broad bean or a runner bean was and now I am looking forward to planting some in the fall! I just have to find a variety that isn't 6 meters tall.

Gemlady, yes! I have quite a seed addiction, however I manage to kill most everything before they get to big.