Hi there!

[avinabacca]

Nice to meet you all - I'm a fairly novice gardener, working a weedy (double)plot in Derby with my wife, brother-in-law and a friend.

Really looking forward to the summer and starting to gather in our crops that we'll be planting soon - though perhaps not as much as I'm looking forward to getting the rotavator hired.

At the moment we've planted a couple of redcurrant canes and a handful of spring narcissi (to have at least something in the ground and growing while we turn over the rest of the plot) - the garlic would have gone in Saturday last too, if the soil hadn't been near-frozen...........

This apart, all going well - would have liked to have got more beds dug out by now, but the weather's not been so great. Not a lot to be done there.

Jobs for the next few weeks involve:
- digging out more beds on the plot
- getting some bits and pieces (toms, peppers and aubergines) started off indoors while the heating's on
- sorting out some bits of timber and finally building the cold frame I've been talking about for, oh, ages
- starting off a decently-made compost heap
- hiring the rotavator and using it!

Looking forward to getting to know you all, talking about garden-y things and (hopefully) getting and sharing good advice.

Should be a lot of fun!

[coomber]

Hello and welcome, they're a great bunch of peeps on here - have fun

[Glutton4...]

Hello and welcome to the mad-house.

You sound pretty well organised, and not short of labour either. Hope it goes well for you.

[zazen999]

Eh up.

Welcome to the Vine.

Whereabouts in Derby are you? Just nosey...we're in Shardlow.

[Flummery]

Hi and welcome. Quite a few people have more than one plot. I've only got half but my garden's big!

[avinabacca]

Thanks, all of you, for the kind welcome! Pleased to meet you all.

We're getting well stuck into things - only problem being that our plot's a little bit further away than we'd like. Not a problem in the summer, but it's making a difference to enthusiasm levels right now. Really need to make the effort to round up "volunteers" to make a trip up there some weekends.....

But then, I think the recent weather'd have done that itself anyway. Ugh.

As for talk of gardens, we've been thinking about growing a few herbs outside next to the kitchen door (it's really not a big yard though, if truth be told); I might also kick off growing a few container-based things too, if there's time and money for it. See how it goes!

Zazen - I go through Shardlow pretty much every day, as I work in Castle Donington! If you know the area, we're at the Five Lamps end of the Duffield Road, pretty much bang on the town centre - our plot's on the Sunnydale site, off Stenson Road.

[Flummery]

I have herbs just outside the back door. If I had to go further than that I wouldn't use them. Bone idle? Moi?

[FionaH]

Hiya and welcome

[bluemoon]

Hello, and welcome to the vine.

[miffy]

Hi, got something in common, haven't been able to do my plot either as it has been frozen rock solid too! I always find bribery works to get Mr Miffy and son up the lottie, like a flask of tea and a firkin, works everytime(firkin is slang for a fn big bit of cake!!)Mr H's expression not mine!