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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Muls on February 26, 2013, 18:40

Title: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: Muls on February 26, 2013, 18:40
You all have cost me a fortune ! everlasting onions, Everest strawberries which took me onto Alpine strawberries. The everlasting onions took me onto perennial kale and cabbage and tomatoes well lets not go down that road. The list is endless .....


ps , love it really  :D
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: devonbarmygardener on February 26, 2013, 18:54
I know. ;)

The climbing white strawberries have intrigued me too.

However - no pennies until payday :(
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: Muls on February 26, 2013, 19:29
Soon be pay day and March will be another short month due to easter  :D
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: Chrysalis on February 26, 2013, 20:47
Did you join because your will power went missing? :lol: :tongue2: ;)

Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: sunshineband on February 26, 2013, 20:51
Did you join because your will power went missing? :lol: :tongue2: ;)



Sholud come with a health warning ---


resistance is futile  :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: devonbarmygardener on February 26, 2013, 20:54
 :lol:
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: yaxley on February 26, 2013, 20:59
If you have the money you may as well spend it doing something you enjoy as they say you cant take it with you .. :)
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: Muls on February 26, 2013, 21:01
will power certainly vanished after joining !! :blush: not forgetting purple climbing beans  purple peas ........ * big sigh*
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: Trillium on February 26, 2013, 21:12
Are you saying you haven't yet discovered the special stuffing courgettes for making Kouza?  Or the very delectable Japanese Kuroda juicing carrots? ;)

Just keep reminding yourself how food nourishes body and soul.
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: devonbarmygardener on February 26, 2013, 21:15
If you have the money you may as well spend it doing something you enjoy as they say you cant take it with you .. :)

Agreed!

Thats why I never have any money! ::)
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: Growster... on February 26, 2013, 21:16
But we do it for fun and food don't we...;0(

;0)
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: yaxley on February 26, 2013, 21:21
But we do it for fun and food don't we...;0(

;0)

Oh yes fun ,food and exercise ...
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: cadalot on February 26, 2013, 21:37
Ummmmm saw grape vines in Wilkingson today .......  "Sunshine"  they were the Borg and resistance was futile and I now have two to plant against my south facing wall

Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: mumofstig on February 26, 2013, 21:41
But we do it for fun and food don't we...;0(

;0)

Oh yes fun ,food and exercise ...
and an empty wallet along the way  ;)

manure, seeds, fertiliser, lime, seeds, compost etc etc etc o did I mention seeds  :unsure: :lol:
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: Growster... on February 26, 2013, 21:45
And we're saving for a Mantis, and more cloches, and more manure as the real stuff didn't materialise, and also I need to cut out the edges of the beds, (it was meant to be a job over Christm'u's), and the greenhouse still needs the new founds but it's so damned cold, I just ain't going to get out there, but never mind, we're going to have a new grandchild next week, so who cares..;0)))

Phew...
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: GrannieAnnie on February 26, 2013, 21:48
Money well spent though Muls!  How much would you pay a fitness centre every month?  And they don't give you all those lovely onions and strawberries etc etc etc!    :lol: :lol:

Look on the bright side.  Once you get into this more, you will be able to save more of your own seeds, so it won't cost you as much.

For instance.  I put my little alpine strawberries in a huge pot 3 years ago.  Last year I wanted the pot for a couple of bush tomatoes, so I transplanted the 12 little remaining strawberry plants to other planters.  Late last year, underneath the bush tomatoes, I could see lots of tiny strawberry plants growing.  Some of the uneaten strawbs must have dropped and self seeded, so now I need some more pots, then I will make another strawberry tower to house my alpine strawberries!  ;)

Oh Growster, a new grandchild?  Wonderful!   Hope all goes well for them all xx
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: devonbarmygardener on February 26, 2013, 21:53
It was you who had the strawberry tower GrannieAnnie! :happy:
Thought so.

I've got a pane of glass to replace in the greenhouse, 3 square beds to refurbish, a rotting shed to replace, few more seeds I've got my eye on...






...bang goes Thursdays wages! ::) :lol:
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: Growster... on February 26, 2013, 21:54
Grans, if you need any more Alpines, just say, they're everywhere here!

Yup, younger daught in Pembury Hospital next week, for a new GC, and what a week that'll be!

And I have to confess that the plot just doesn't beckon yet, there's too much cold around...
Title: Re: oh why, oh why did I join this forum!?!
Post by: mumofstig on February 26, 2013, 22:02
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Yup, younger daught in Pembury Hospital next week, for a new GC

 we're all on tenterhooks now  :unsure: ::) :nowink: :wacko: