Welcome, a better bunch for advice you will never find. I’m originally from Perth, born in the hospital there, family from Blairgowrie, but I live just outside Paris now so not quite the same growing conditions! Best advice for gardening is have fun with it and take the time to enjoy it.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
I’m new here myself and can honestly say that in my albeit very limited experience of online fora (I did Latin at school me 😊) I can tell that the people on here are a very very nice bunch indeed. It’s great also because there look to be answers to any and every question you could possibly ever think of gardening-wise !
Good idea about giving up fizzy pop, by the way. We spend all our lives trying to get rid of excess carbon dioxide from our bodies and there’s all these big soft drinks companies doing their best to get us to get it back inside us. Madness 😳!!
When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
Not just garden answers. I trust the forum for advice on most non gardening subjects ( cars, weird cooking ingredients, flour weevil and mites, unidentified tech - etc etc etc) there's usually someone who can answer or point you in the right direction
Welcome! Looks like you have yourself a good set up there. I'm still finding my feet with gardening myself, but have found this forum to be a godsend. Lots of very friendly people here that generously share their experience and expertise.
In terms of gardening and mental health, I'm finding huge satisfaction in seeing plants through their life cycle - growing from seed, seeing them grow and develop and then collecting the seed to start all over again. Something about the cyclical aspect of it that is very pleasing to me. Above all, in gardening, there's always something to anticipate, and thus it nurtures that most precious of things: hope.
Welcome to the forum. Gardening is a panacea for all kinds of ills and problems. It will give you great joy, excitement and surprises as well as heaps of exasperation, frustration and disappointment, but do you know what, there is always next year to try again. There is a wide spectrum of experience on these pages, from newbies to really ancient wrinklies like myself and many others. There are also plenty of experts in a wide range of gardening knowledge, happy to share their knowledge. You have made a brilliant start, keep it up and ask as many questions as you need. Good luck and enjoy.
this forum and especially a certain Dove have been a lifeline to me and they don't even know it. Well done winning the competition. Best wishes from Luxembourg.
Welcome @ElementalJesta. Yes, this is a fabulous site. You’ll get all the advice you need, and it’s also a great place to come on to share just general chit chat, too. Your greenhouse is looking good, all set to go. I wish I had the space for a bigger one, I’ve only got a mini one, but I suppose that’s better than nothing.
Well done for involving your children, too. I’m sure they’re going to be full of enthusiasm and excitement as they see their efforts come to fruition (as I’m sure you will be, too). Gardening gives so much pleasure and certainly helps calm us.
Congratulations on winning the competition, too 👍🏼😁.
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Good idea about giving up fizzy pop, by the way. We spend all our lives trying to get rid of excess carbon dioxide from our bodies and there’s all these big soft drinks companies doing their best to get us to get it back inside us. Madness 😳!!
And certainly on here always a friendly face.
Good luck, and well done for getting the kids involved.
In terms of gardening and mental health, I'm finding huge satisfaction in seeing plants through their life cycle - growing from seed, seeing them grow and develop and then collecting the seed to start all over again. Something about the cyclical aspect of it that is very pleasing to me. Above all, in gardening, there's always something to anticipate, and thus it nurtures that most precious of things: hope.
Gardening is a panacea for all kinds of ills and problems. It will give you great joy, excitement and surprises as well as heaps of exasperation, frustration and disappointment, but do you know what, there is always next year to try again.
There is a wide spectrum of experience on these pages, from newbies to really ancient wrinklies like myself and many others. There are also plenty of experts in a wide range of gardening knowledge, happy to share their knowledge.
You have made a brilliant start, keep it up and ask as many questions as you need.
Good luck and enjoy.
this forum and especially a certain Dove have been a lifeline to me and they don't even know it.
Well done winning the competition.
Best wishes from Luxembourg.
Luxembourg
Your greenhouse is looking good, all set to go. I wish I had the space for a bigger one, I’ve only got a mini one, but I suppose that’s better than nothing.
Gardening gives so much pleasure and certainly helps calm us.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.