How old are you and how long have you grown ya own?

[Aberdeenplotter]

62 and have grown stuff since my Dad let me grow radishes as a tot!

Me too also Flum, the piece of ground I used to play in with my dinky toys was converted to a veg patch and I've never ever stopped.

[Aberdeenplotter]

p.s I'm younger than you <giggle>

[Flummery]

p.s I'm younger than you <giggle>

They all are (nearly!)

[arpoet]

63 in year.. but look and feel 90 some days yet with the brain power of a ten year old.
Used to spend hours down the lottie with my grandparents and can remember having my photo in the local paper hand feeding a baby fox down the lottie when i was 4.

Stopped all intrest in growing when i discovered beer, snooker and girls. Started dabbling at growing again when we moved here in 1980, inspired by Geof Smith on TV.
But my soil here is very thin and all clay and stone so never did well.
Took an allotment 4 years ago with my mate and its the same lottie as we had all those years ago.
Roger

[sewer rat]

48 -been involved in veg growing on and off most of my life bar a 13 yr soujourn in London.

[jackie j]

I am 56 !

Um are you me lol
I am 56 and have always been interested gardening, can remember being in the garden with my dad sometime before my 6th birthday ( he died just after ) if he took his top off then so did I.
I have always grown flowers and dabbled with toms and runner beans in pots. Got a lottie ( half plot ) in Sept 2007 and wondered how I would manage ( long story ) took on another half plot in Feb 2010 spend all my time there now. Site manager from Jan 2011.

[Fairweather friend]

My husband just laughed when I asked for an allotment for my 21st birthday. I didn't get one and we only had a small yard so I started with a few herbs in pots. Each year a few more pots and different veg were added.

I'm now 31 and have since moved to a house with a garden which has a couple of veg beds, a greenhouse and still plenty of pots so the range has increased further but still not enough room! I finally am on a waiting list for an allotment hoping to acquire one before my 40th!!

My 5 year old son loves helping and has his own patch too.

[Two_Sheds]

I grew some peas at home with Mum, but they all got pea maggot so I lost interest until I was 26 and shared my first lotty

I've been at it for 15 years now

[Germinater]

32 grown since I was a kid with my mum but just got back into it last year when we moved house and garden had a few old batterd cold frames since then iv got more and more addicted .

[vegnut]

55 and been at it since i was a nipper watching me dad laying out his onions and digging his maincrop spuds up.
Still dont know a thing though. Just plodding on and learning as i go.
Truly though, i think iv'e forgotten more than i can remember !!!

[susieq100]

I'm 55 and have been growing fruit and veg since in my early 20's but on and off depending on where I was living and the amount of spare time and garden space I had available. We moved to our present house 7 years ago and during our second summer here, I planted a wigwam of runner beans in a circular flower bed on the front lawn (much to all neighbour's consternation!). However a gift of some fresh beans sweetened them up! The following year I put 3 raised beds on the back lawn - 2 years later I had an allotment and a greenhouse and I'm still growing stuff in the flowerbeds as well. Now, I'm thinking of taking on another plot, although work may not permit that. You just get the bug .... like lots of the grapes my dream is to have a couple of acres, with a small orchard, some hens and a couple of pigs. :-)

[paxosisland]

58, just retired and just started growing my own. So will need lots of help please!!!!!

[pauco]

What a cracking thread this is! I started last year had a good start, and the bug bit. Got of to a good start to the season, was well chuffed! then disaster struck!! i wasdue to take early retirement
and i had a stroke fri 13th may!!! dont remember a thing, till i woke up in hospital a few days later, with my wife at the bedside crying? She had been told i may not walk again!! my right side had took the brunt of the damage. Well long story short, i am now back on my feet, a bit wobbley, but walking.
So at least i can spend my time getting things back to as normal as possible, and the veg patch back in order.
The veg growing has been a great help.

paul.

ps.
Hi to all on the forum, it's great to be back

[chris1389]

I am 23 (old before my time and get a little stick for growing veg, but ah well) and have been growing my own fruit and veg seriously about 3 years. I was started by gran at the tender age of around 7 on her allotment. It was the bonfires we had that first attracted me but then found the joys of digging up pots and sneaking few rasberries while nobody was around!!

[Garden_Chris]

I'm 21 years old and this is my first ever attempt at growing vegetables - ever!
I used to "help" my granddad in his garden with I was about five, with rhubarb, runner beans and tomatoes, but I can imagine I was more of a hinderence than an actual help.

I'm currently growing:

• Tomatoes - Moneymaker, Gardeners Delight, Beefsteak and Alisa Craig Varieties.
• Runner Beans - White Embargo
• Strawberries - Gorella, Honeyoe and two other varieties I can't remember
• Carrots - Nantes 2 & James Scarlett Intermediate
• Pumpkins - Mammoth Variety
• Sunflowers - Russian Giant (I know, I know - not a vegetable)

I first began in April this year (2011) with Sunflower seeds and after a few trips to my local gardening centre became a little engrossed with watching seeds turn into plants, and then finding somewhere for them to grow. It's resulted in a bit of a hodgepodge of methods ranging from sellotaping hurriedly bought 3ft bamboo canes together as supports for runner beans to using bits of old string to keep the canes upright.

I can imagine I'll be asking a lot of beginners questions on these forums over the coming months, so be warned for some somewhat naive mistakes!