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[darkcrystal]

well i am very happy, i think i have done very well with it been our first time growing, i have had potatos, green beans, tomamtos, and pumpkins. so yes i have a smile on my face. and im planning what i can grow in the garden next year. its all good stuff.

[Dianne1234567]

Well done darkcrystal. Its a great feeling when you have grown your own stuff and have a freezer full, very satisfying indeed, well it is for me anyway.

[ann-the-nan]

happy

Congrats crys. nothing like the pure taste of your own food picked by your own hand from your own garden/lottie. Keep up the good work and enjoy.

[gojiberry]

Well done and it is nice to know that there is another grape who has been bitten and inspired to carry on. Not wanting to detract from your success or the will to carry on but I am interested to know how much the vine played in the overall picture.

Ian

[darkcrystal]

actually everyone here has been very helpful, and also i have been reading a lot on what other people have been growing, so now i have a little book with notes and a list of what i would like to plant and when to plant them......im glad i found this site.

[Kath]

I am glad I found this site too and it has been an enormous help to me. So thank you all very much. You are a grand bunch of grapes.

[bobleponge]

Well done Darkcrystal.
I have only been growing for 3 years, and have found that each year has been better than the last.
Its a great feeling to go and pick something fresh and eat it, either as it is or turned into something else.
Enjoy.

[Flobalob]

I took a sort of cavalier approach very early in the season. If it grows it grows, if it does'nt what can I lose !
So as the season progressed everything seemed to be producing healthy abundant crops,which in turn inspired me to research and learn as much as i could about the various plants i was growing, almost to a point of obsession.
My first year of growing has exceeded all my exspectations.
Freezer almost full and 1 raised bed already cleared for 2010 crops.

[susieq100]

I'm with you Flobalob

I took a sort of cavalier approach very early in the season. If it grows it grows, if it does'nt what can I lose !

This is my first full proper year of having an allotment and the harvesting and eating has made all the hard work well worth it. This forum has been brilliant and very entertaining! I've got loads of good ideas from you all and some excellent advice. I've already bought a lot of seeds for next year and have learned so much from my mistakes!

[Topcat36]

It's a nice feeling isn't it eating your own produce. Things din't go according to plan for me an accident left me in hospital with a fractured spine and thought i would have nothing but i carried on and only grew a few things had to accept raised bed wouldn't get built. Still i had toms, chillis, peppers , courgettes, raddish, lettuce, spinach, PSB sweetcorn , peas, beans, only a small amount of each tho . Next year tho i will grow more.

[Kittypickle]

Well done, sounds like you have done well and I am very jealous of your pumpkins, my plant got munched by slugs very early on.

This is year 3 for me growing veg but my first real success which I put down to DH getting into it all and the huge amount of information and help on the vine.