Is it too late to start?

[gdb]

I started off with an allotment. It was awful. Overgrown with couch grass. Heavy clay soil which baked as hard as rock in the summer. And the site got vandals.

A year or so later I had a second one. It was pretty light soil. Easy to cultivate. No vandals. And a lot of people to talk to. It was great.

Sooo.... it could go either way.

But if you dont give it a go, you'll never know.

[invisiblepiper]

Yep, but in return how about designing me a wine label for my home brew,

That might be fun - is your brew made from the apples in the photo?
Cidre fermier?

[Merry]

I was 57 when I got my allotment - never done any serious gardening in my life!
Took me a year or so to get it fully productive. Now I grow most of our fruit and vegetables and the back yard`s freed up for the chooks!
The oldest allotmenteer on our site is 93 and still digging!

[oldfella]

Yep, but in return how about designing me a wine label for my home brew,

That might be fun - is your brew made from the apples in the photo?
Cidre fermier?

No the apples are for juicing, and as we we live in wine country we only make Sloe Gin, Sloe Wine and the local brews like Eau de Vie 45 proof and then the Vin de Noix, (Wallnut Wine )Vin de Peche (Peach Wine) Vin de Cerisier, (Cherry Wine) the last two made from the leaves not the fruit. The Eau de Vie we make from plums and we also make our Pruneaux in Eau de Vie which is semi dried prunes and sugar which you leave for 4 months before removing any dentures and sipping the liquor and eating the prune, and served in a very small glass.

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm28 ... tos012.jpg


have to buiild a new cellar, ah well next year

[invisiblepiper]

heavens - I feel tipsy just reading that lot!