Hello! Newbie Alert!

[Dizzi]

Hi All

So I'm new to this forum, anyone on a certain guinea pig forum will have seen me about though. I have joined up to seep knowledge from people about gardening and creating my haven from the chaos of the urban world. I used to live surrounded by fields, gardens and wildlife in the middle of nowhere, one of these villages where you blink and you've missed it. However on moving to London with my concrete loving husband (he was born in a town and is allergic to wildlife I think) I have fought hard to maintain my sanity.

For the first eight years we lived in rented property with no garden at first then we got a garden but a landlady that would not have liked any change however we own our own place now YAY I've managed to make a nice bunny zone for the fluffy ones, and we have a human only zone at one end where I plan to pop some beds for veggies, a wild section of border for all those wildlife things, and we are encouraging small birds in. My garden is my sanity so while it has autumn scruffy going on, it really is my space.

So that's me, a quick hello and i'm off to learn heaps. So glad I found this forum.

cc

[Bren In Pots]

Hello and welcome to the vine Dizzi sounds like you've made good plans for your garden

[Bigmallly]

Welcome to the vine Dizzi, a garden can be a great escape from everyday life........enjoy.

[Catseyes]

Hiya welcome to you... I know my sister is on a guinea pig forum so will see if the name rings any bells to her too


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[Verinda]

Hello Dizzi, welcome to the forum

[alldigging]

Hello
How many fluffy creatures do you have?

[Olorin2001]

After a lifetime in London I moved out to retain what little remains of my sanity. Without a sanctuary of some kind, one that is your, you begin to feel like a wage slave.

[veggiechicken]

Hello Dizzi and a big welcome to you and the fluffy ones

[Florence Fennel]

Hello and a very warm welcome to the Vine You'll find a few people on here who are also fond of Guinea Pigs.

[Two_Sheds]

I have 2 GPs of my own (they're my lawnmowers & weed processors), and 2 at school.

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...etc_64000.html

We have made a raised bed specially to grow food for the GPs, plus they get many of the "weeds" that come up too

[Bill HH]

Welcome, you learn something new every day, there is no way I would have thought Guinea pigs had the intelliigence to have their own forum but I did know birds tweet a lot.
It sounds like your pretty organised, I too was a country boy hurled into the urban concrete jungle. The small village I lived in was idylic, we all knew each other and the local shop was a great gossiping place. "Mrs Keeling is pregnant again" "How do you know?" "She's had her hair done".

[PyreneesPlot]

Hello and welcome from about as far from the concrete jungle as we could get.

Enjoy the forum and your sanctuary - you do see some fantastic & exotic London gardens.

[Dizzi]

Hi all, thanks for the welcome!

Yes guinea pigs are so clever, its my own fault, their house is in my study! Full access to the internet.

I think i have a clear plan, it changes but i spent the first summer just getting the big things done. We are lucky, the guy who owned the house before us was a gardener but we had many things to change like removal of broken childrens toys, the odd tree, application of new fences and a couple of gates to dog proof the garden. The veg are coming though! I cant wait to cook my own home grown veggies again! Eight years is too long! The furries will love the off cuts too. All veg are bunny and piggie proof.

I know how you feel about being in the village, our local shop was the hub, we all knew or were related to eachother, my mothers family was historic in the village, generations of them. London was a culture shock. No garden for that quiet cuppa, no bird table or grass, our downstairs did but we were not so lucky. Then we moved to a place where planting anything was frowned upon, even my heavy day with the shears and the awful grapevine was seen as "damaging", so we stopped doing anything but trimming the grass and hedge. I do miss the village but barnets not so bad, we have good transport and huge areas of nothing in which to walk the dog. Even saw combines and tractors harvesting this year yay!

The only big thing in the garden is hiding the railway embankment, it has trees, they are awesome, but the thorn comes over and there is the usual rubbish and foxes lurking back there. Apparently a street of male dogs makes foxes quite content to remain on the embankment.

You are right though guys, its my sanctuary, hubby is not that interested and leaves it to me. Its my rural time out there.

Cc


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