Happy birthday GYO forum! PLUS your chance to win

[veggiechicken]

Happy 10th Birthday!

Happy 10th Birthday GYO Forum.
We've been friends for a long time and I've made some real-life good friends through being a member. Thank you

I've subscribed to the magazine since the 1st edition and have been re-reading the early editions, looking for the first mention of the Forum. I expected a great fanfare but all I found was :-



This was October 2005 but it would have been on sale a month or two earlier.

The Forum has taught me that:-

Every question, not matter how daft, has an answer, usually several different ones!

You can never have too many seeds, or greenhouses;

Tomatoes can be propagated easily from "armpits";

and

There's always time to sit down with coffee, GYO magazine and Cake

[bearded bloke]

Through reading the forums I was tempted to "naturalise" garlic from my favourite holiday destination, I started by late sowing & early harvesting cloves that gave me "rounds", the rounds were planted shortest day & harvested longest day (as per tradition), as an idea to preclude damage by allium leaf miner cloves from that harvest were planted late spring & again harvested on the shortest day, giving this years crop ...

[veggiechicken]

Closing today at 4pm
There must be more of us who've learnt something from the Forum???
Go on, enter. Don't be shy. You know you want to

[Bren In Pots]

I've learnt that if you don't protect your Brassicas from the butterflies and pigeons you won't have anything left to harvest.

[Greenleaves]

The forum has given me the confidence to grow a much wider range of produce because I simply have to ask any questions I have on forum. I am not judged on my gardening ability and people will always offer solutions based on their knowledge and experience even adding humour along the way.
I actually feel privileged to share my successes and failures with so many like minded people. I am proud of my plot and it was only achieved through this fantastic forum.


Pictures to be added later

[skeggijon]

I've learnt that its possible to grow giant Pumpkins here in the UK

[Emily Peagram]

Hi everyone, as it's supposed to be such a lovely weekend, we thought we'd extend this competition until Monday 10th at 12pm. We will announce the winner later that afternoon, thank you to everyone who has entered for far

[Hazel at the Hill]

I would never have thought about making wine without the help of the Vine!



Happy birthday, GYO - cheers!

[NatalieCooke]

The wonderful Grapes taught me that's there's way more different varieties of tomato plants to grow other then Money Makers. I'm now growing 10 different varieties this year!
Also growing sweetcorn for the first time all down to their great help.
No question is a silly one.

[Sheneval]

I learned how an allotment site should be run - as a result after 3 years our site has been transformed from one full of negativity where only a few exchanged friendly words to one where almost everyone on the site is on friendly terms and is visited regularly by family groups and not just the diehards as previously and the site has never looked better

[Lumpy]

It's all your fault you know.

Before finding the GYO mag and this Vine I was happy to potter along doing this and that but.......

NOW......my small veggie area has moved and been re-designed, I found out that Andrews is not only useful for a hangover, it's positively fashionable to used your yoghurt pots as seed nurseries, that I can suffer from plant hypochondria and.....worst of all is my addiction to seeds. lots and lots and lots of weird and wonderful seeds.


And you know what - It's all thanks you YOU! So Happy Birthday and please plot and plan for many more to come.

[bearded bloke]

Bump, still time for a few more entries

[Bren In Pots]

Bumping you've only got until 12 noon to enter.

[Emily Peagram]

This competition is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! We will announce the winner on the thread this afternoon

[marchogaeth]

Well penblwydd hapus anyway, it's a great place to "garden" even when it's quiet.