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Post: # 9576Post bettsypies »

Hello!

I'm extremely new at horticulture but I'm hoping to grow fruits and veg this year and have a hopefully beautiful flowery garden...with a little help of course (thats where you lot come in).

:flower:

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Post: # 9577Post shiney »

Hi Betsypies

Welcome to the forum. :wav:

I am sure you'll get loads of help here!
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Post: # 9583Post ina »

Hi Bettsy

Welcome to the forum! We'll do our best to give advice and moral support... And we need it ourselves once in a while!

Cheers
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Post: # 9585Post Millymollymandy »

Hello and welcome to the forum. Do you make pies? :mrgreen:

Whereabouts are you? We ask because there are loads of antipodeans on the forum so we northern hemisphere folk could be giving you the wrong advice if you are down under somewhere!

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Post: # 9590Post hedgewitch »

:wav:
( I LOVE that smiley )

Hello and welcome to the forum :flower:
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Post: # 9593Post Shirley »

Hi Betsypies - great name!

Nice to meet you.

Shirlz xx
:wav:
tis a nice emoticon isn't it :mrgreen:
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Post: # 9619Post Wombat »

G'DAy Betsypies,

Welcome to the site, we always try to help where we can!

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Post: # 9676Post Steve Hanson »

Hello Betsy
I am just cheating like the rest of this self-sufficient-ish lot if I say hello I get to be a Jerry quicker!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post: # 9775Post bettsypies »

Millymollymandy wrote:Hello and welcome to the forum. Do you make pies? :mrgreen:

Whereabouts are you? We ask because there are loads of antipodeans on the forum so we northern hemisphere folk could be giving you the wrong advice if you are down under somewhere!
Hello I have made a pie or two!

I'm from the midlands, UK. I will update my profile thingamajiggy

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Post: # 9784Post Tigerhair »

Hi
Welcome!! :cheers: I'm from the Derbyshire bit of the midlands, and it's nice to have someone localish.. Good luck with your garden. Let us know if we can help.
Tigz x

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Post: # 9811Post Millymollymandy »

bettsypies wrote:
Millymollymandy wrote:Hello and welcome to the forum. Do you make pies? :mrgreen:

Whereabouts are you? We ask because there are loads of antipodeans on the forum so we northern hemisphere folk could be giving you the wrong advice if you are down under somewhere!
Hello I have made a pie or two!

I'm from the midlands, UK. I will update my profile thingamajiggy
I have to admit, when I first saw your name, I read it as Bettys pies!!! Only later I saw what it really said. :oops:

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Post: # 9838Post Chickenlady »

Welcome to the site Bettsypies! I won't follow the gang and produce a Mexican wave - far too exhausting! Instead, how about: 8)
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Post: # 9839Post Chickenlady »

Grrr!! Me emoticons don't work on this computer. Oh well...welcome anyway!
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Post: # 9853Post Andy Hamilton »

Hello and welcome I do hope that you will share some of the pie recipes with us. welcome to the forum.
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Post: # 9861Post ina »

Millymollymandy wrote: I have to admit, when I first saw your name, I read it as Bettys pies!!! Only later I saw what it really said. :oops:
Wishful thinking, was it?

Ina

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