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kiery · Post: # 71296Post **kiery** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:55 pm

Hello from Carnoustie everyone!

What a brill site. Ever since I read my dad's copy of John Seymour's Complete Guide to Self-sufficeincy in the 1980s I hanckered after such a life.

Can't afford a farm though, so my little garden will have to do. We have a local group here who have just got the go ahead from the council for allotments in Carnoustie so my store cupboard can hopefully expand.

I've found carrots, lettuce and blackcurrants quite good so far this year; but our potatoes were a complete disaster. I think it was the wet weather. We were growing them in bags which might have contributed?

Thought I would just say hello.

red · Post: # 71303Post **red** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:14 pm

hi and welcome

yeh strange year for weather - so not one to judge anything on. hope you get your allotment soon!

9ball · Post: # 71304Post **9ball** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:48 pm

:welcomeish:
I haven't got the space for spuds - but from what I've heard and judging by my tomatoes it's been an awful year for blight.
Good luck with the allotment!

Shirley · Post: # 71305Post **Shirley** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:52 pm

Hello Kiery

Welcome aboard. Well done with the allotments - and happy growing!

Silver Ether · Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:19 pm

Hello kiery welcome I aint got much of a garden and my spuds grow in plant pots ... ok not massive crop but lovely... and yes scotland has been wet ... especially when I was on holiday there

bogit & legit · Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:47 pm

Hello kiery

Thomzo · Post: # 71330Post **Thomzo** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:19 pm

Hi Kiery and welcome.

I also had problems with my spuds and almost everything else this year.

Zoe

Millymollymandy · Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:56 am

Hi and welcome to Self Suffish!

Thurston Garden · Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:25 am

Ahoy kiery!

Yep, no much good for tatties here in East Lothian either - I lost all of mine. All 1000

Andy Hamilton · Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:08 am

I bought one blight resistant first early crop and one main crop of potatoes this year and the first earlies were absolutely finen as they were out of the ground before the blight hit. The main crop were terrible and I have a big bag of new potatoes to slowly get through.

Welcome to the sit.e

Wombat · Post: # 71776Post **Wombat** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:40 pm

G'Day Kiery!

Welcome to the site!

Nev

Sky · Post: # 71782Post **Sky** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:27 am

Hi there : )

ina · Post: # 71784Post **ina** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:30 am

Fancy seeing you here, Kiery...

Welcome to the Ishers, too.