hellooo from Devon......I'm new....

red · Post: # 28427Post **red** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:15 pm

hello!

we live in the sticks - grow some of our own veg and trying to buy a place of our own, want to do lots of s-ish things... learning as we go

Hope to get lots of advise here!

Shirley · Post: # 28433Post **Shirley** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:14 pm

Hi Red

Welcome to the site... looking forward to learning with you :D

Andy Hamilton · Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:19 pm

Hello there Red and welcome.

If only house prices were cheper huh? Would love a place of my own too.

red · Post: # 28455Post **red** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:29 pm

crikey yeh house prices are scary. still look on the bright side - the eminute we buy one - house prices will crash.......

Wombat · Post: # 28464Post **Wombat** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:10 am

G'Day Red!

Welcome to the site.

Nev

Chickpea · Post: # 28480Post **Chickpea** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:40 am

Hi, Red. Nice to meet you. What veg are you growing, and how is it coming along in the dry weather?

My dad lives in Ireland in the middle of cattle farming country, although he's not a farmer himself. His neighbours are starting to feed their cows silage because the grass is too dry to eat. But if they use all the silage now, what will they feed the cows in winter? It's a bad business.

ina · Post: # 28487Post **ina** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:19 am

Hi Red, and welcome!

Just let me know when you've bought your house - I will take advantage of the resultant crash and buy mine just after you!

Millymollymandy · Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:26 pm

Hi Red, welcome to the site!

red · Post: # 28568Post **red** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:14 pm

Chickpea wrote:Hi, Red. Nice to meet you. What veg are you growing, and how is it coming along in the dry weather?

well, we did try to buy another house earlier in the year and it fell thru, and that meant suddenly we had to rush to get veg into the garden of our current place... but we have got courgettes, vegetable spagetti, pumpkins and sweetcorn, have picked red,white and blackcurrents (1 bush each) and tomatoes in the greenhouse - gardeners delight and plum. oh and some herbs about the place. plants have been struggling in the dry heat - and i tend not to water them apart form those in greenhouse, but had to break my moral plans on that and give them a little. now its rained a couple of days and courgettes have appeared out of nowhere - pumpkins are massive too - planted where a compost heap was...