Hello from Northamptonshire

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  1. TheNettlePatch

    TheNettlePatch Apprentice Gardener

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    Hi all. New member, originally from Canada, I've been in the UK for 11 years now. I am an avid vegetable gardener, and we had a lovely veggie patch at our previous house, but have bought a new home with a rather dreadful garden (not much soil from what we can tell!) This year we've put in a few makeshift raised beds and grew some tomatoes, strawberries and a few other bits and bobs (radicchio and started artichokes for next year!) but we are planning a big transformation with a maze of raised beds and a greenhouse for next year. Happy to be amongst you! 0E003F55-1CF5-4072-930A-FA3E4173AC62.jpeg
     
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      Welcome to GC Nettle patch
      hope you get good results with your raised beds :thumbsup:
       
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      • TheNettlePatch

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        Thanks - taking another look at my photo above I should have chosen "The Messy Gardener" as a username though :redface:
         
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          Hi NP, welcome to Gardeners Corner.:love30::thumbsup:

          If you want to change your User Name we can do that for you.:dunno::heehee:
           
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          • KittyHound

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            Hi Nettlepatch! Welcome. I look forward to following your progress.
             
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                  Welcome to Gardeners Corner TheNettlePatch. :)
                   
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                  • TheNettlePatch

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                    Thanks all for the welcome. :smile:
                     
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                      @TheNettlePatch Sounds like you have great plans!! I'm only new here too even though I joined in June!
                      Welcome!!!
                       
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                        @TheNettlePatch welcome to the forum! What part of Canada was your home? You've got a Canuck garden going. Annual mistakes/unwanted this year don't bother you next year with our brutal winters. Big adjustment living in the gulf stream path, listen to the advice here to steer away from problems! :)

                        This is a great forum. They're even kind to colonials :heehee:
                         
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                          Particularly to those colonials that we've met:dunno::love30::heehee:
                           
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                            And another welcome from me ! :spinning:
                             
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                            • TheNettlePatch

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                              Thanks everyone for your very kind welcomes, and now that gardening season has started I hope to pop in here more often! :)
                               
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                                @CanadianLori I am a herring choker (New Brunswicker) so enjoyed the Gulf Stream for swimming at New Brunswick's beautiful sandy beaches with gloriously warm water, but I am now landlocked in Northamptonshire England. I am not complaining though - I truly love it here :hapfeet:
                                 
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