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sarahp1

Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Posts: 68
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 7:08 pm Post subject: Hello from a growing enthusiast

Hello to everyone... stumbled across your group on account of Mochyn's Old Chap's article on his Gravity fed irrigation system. I am making plans to set up something similar for my polytunnel.
I am a dabbler... have an allotment where I grow pretty much everything I eat (although I've never succeeded in growing enough carrots nice enough for eating AYR), poltunnel, 2 bee hives... and always up for a new project. I've been experimenting over the past few years with preserving and home brewing - aiming for variety and trying to make what can be eaten in a year (after a few false starts and a gallon of Rhubarb chutney). I studied agricultural science (plant breeding specifically) at uni and am stilling figuring out how to transfer that knowledge into practical growing, but I can put money on knowing as much if not more useless information about strawberries than anyone on earth

Current hype in my little world is around biodynamics (which I am hoping to go out to NZ to study soon), mushroom growing and foraging (been turning the internet upside down trying to source porcini/cepe spawn), successional and companion planting. Favourite product for the small holder: Nemaslug, Most exciting veg in my garden: def. the asparagus though the most successful has to go to the broccoli which I have had heading now since May last year and still going

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Looking forward to getting you know you all. Sarah

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 7:18 pm Post subject:
Welcome!

sarahp1

Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Posts: 68
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 7:20 pm Post subject:
ty Chez

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4635
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 7:24 pm Post subject:
hiiiii Funnily enough I am venturing into biodynamics myself. I've yet to be convinced of the descending moon's effect on turnips, but I needed some kind of planting calendar, so why not? Be interesting to see what you come up with! As for strawberries - I had two alpine ones trying to ripen just before Xmas, is that normal?

sarahp1

Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Posts: 68
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 7:38 pm Post subject:

Your stawbs were late yes, but then it has been very mild and I think the alpine ones are day-neutral i.e they will set fruit providing they are warm enough.

I don't know much about biodynamics yet. As an undergrad we were presented with a study contrasting the profits and expenditure of conventional, organic and biodynamic and biodynamic was the winner by far - it has intrigued me since then. I have considered buying the compost preps (such as bd500) as there is a uk supplier, but just using these seems like only doing half the job. I am hoping to establish a BD based business one of these days, but as they say - dreams are free. And I am thoroughly ignorant of turnips...

Kenworth

Joined: 04 Apr 2011
Posts: 855
Location: Michigan

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 7:49 pm Post subject:
Howdy from SW Michigan.

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 8:13 pm Post subject:
Hello & welcome from the far South West.

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 8:23 pm Post subject:
Hello and welcome from Asturias...

Rusticwood

Joined: 01 Dec 2009
Posts: 2154
Location: All over the South West

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 8:25 pm Post subject:
Hi from Devon

sarahp1

Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Posts: 68
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 8:32 pm Post subject:

Chickem

Joined: 27 Mar 2009
Posts: 3958
Location: Sunny Devon

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 8:39 pm Post subject:
Hi!

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8974
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 8:46 pm Post subject:
Croeso from South East Wales I grow sort of bio-dynamically, when I can afford to get the calendar It seems to work and also helps to organise me into doing stuff, which can't be a bad thing Whereabouts are you?

sarahp1

Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Posts: 68
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 8:51 pm Post subject:
Warwickshire

Liz in Ireland

Joined: 27 Jan 2009
Posts: 1287

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 9:52 pm Post subject:
Dia duit

Frazzled_Barbie

Joined: 26 Sep 2011
Posts: 466
Location: Buckinghamshire

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 9:59 pm Post subject:
Hi there and welcome Angie Ps.....please share your secret to broccolli growing......my attempts are awful

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