Hello.....

Hi
I live in Barnsley and am finally - after living in my house 7 years - getting to grips with my garden which is larger than I would like - or rather larger than I have time to look after. I have decided to add an allotment area so decided to join a forum to pick brains on what's best and easiest to grow.

 

Hello and welcome,

 

Hi Hec, just ask away

 

hi, welcome

 

Hi Hec. Welcome to GC.

 

Hi Hec welcome to the forum.

As you will be sure to find out yourself it's full of really nice friendly people although there are a few nutters knocking about as long as we keep taking the tablets we do little harm! :D

Quite a few of us on here would be screaming at our screens in disagreement to you saying you have a garden which is larger than you would like....most of us on here would love to be in your shoes and have too much garden I know I would!


Anyhow enjoy your time spent on here hopefully you're get plenty of ideas and helpful tips to get the garden you have wished for.
Helen.xxx.

 

Hello and welcome

 

Hi and thanks everyone for the welcome. I hope to make good use of you all.

I realised that when I was typing it and I do like it - I just wish I had more time for it - Once it is sorted I am sure I will manage but it was a total wildnerness when I moved in (hadn't been touched for over twenty years) and for the last seven I have been trying to get it sorted bit by bit and just cutting the rest back. (Will try and post some pics later.)

The end is in sight in that I at least have tentative plans for all of it now; and the last 'BIG' bit is just about ready to be lawned. [

 

hi hec welcome and enjoy the forum sounds like you moved into a castle :D :D

 

Oh No its not that big!

- just big for me as I live alone and work full time so I have everything to look after. poor me! :D

 

Can i suggest you grow what my next door neighbour does....dandelions. :D She says its dead easy and the way they try to spread to me I agree.

 

Thanks :D

Thing is I've had the Dandelion, Dock and bramble look for 5 years and I think its's past its sell by date. They replaced the totally overgrown shrubbery vista that I think must have been in vogue sometime in the 70's and was well vintage.

I am in a bungalow on a south facing steepish slope and there is a garage under my lounge. People that had lived in the area for 10 years before me were amazed to see this as they weren't even aware it existed.

One big advantage though - althought the area is generally quite clayey 20 years on negleted leaf mulch means I have loads of fine crumbly top soil that is a pleasure to work with.

 

Hec. Believe it or not clay can be a good thing if properly treated. (But it's a b****r to dig. I speak from experience).

Yours arthritically