Newbie from Hertfordshire

[lottiedolly]

Hi guys, i am from Hertfordshire and have recently really starting to get the growing bug. I am trying to grow heirloom and rarer tomatoes to keep the seeds flowing by swaps and sharing. I am also trying to grow a variety of chilies, winter squash, beans both climbing and dwarf and aubergines (swapping and sharing on these also). I am really interested in growing any varieties or vegetables that i cannot purchase in the supermarket and it is now slowly starting to take over. I sit and pore over seed catalogues and search the net for new ideas. I do hope that i will be a productive member of this forum, it looks great.

;D

[bluelacedredhead]

Welcome to HG, Lottie.
The number of members from the U.K. seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. I hope your garden does too.

[cornishwoman]

I noticed that,Hi Lottie and welcome.

[stratcat]

Hi there, Lottie. Welcome to HG! Look forward to hearing of your gardening experiences.

[pugs]

Hi Lottie and welcome to HG.

Look over my seed list, mainly tomatoes right now. If there is anything you want, PM me and I'll send them to you.

Pugs

[Penny]

Hello there and Welcome.

[grunt]

Lottie: Welcome to HG. Check out our seed list, and let me know if there is anything that strikes your fancy.

[canadamike]

Welcome in the bunch!! I am too lazy to write a list, but I do lots of trials and tend to have lots of cultivars in many areas...like 700 melons and other things like that...and they are yours for the asking...

[lottiedolly]

Hi guys, you are all extremely generous, and i would probably love to take you up on your kind offers at a later date once i get myself sorted out. I have to say yep us brits seem to be really getting the growing bug and are searching for interesting and informative forums such as yourselves and are therefore joining in more.

I am lucky to have an allotment and a little greenhouse in my back garden. Although we live in a lovely village, back gardens in britain seem to be lacking in space and we are therefore not able to grow the variety that some can (that and the horrid weather we are having lately - global warming ) We have learned to squeeze the maximum amount of crops into the minimum amount of space.

Thank you for your warm welcome and i do hope i make some friends along the way.

Kindest regards

Kim ;D

[kathm]

Hi Kim - your user name sounds familiar - will I have met you in 'another place'?
People here are very welcoming and friendly - and exceedingly generous!
So many seeds, so little space!

[wolfcub]

Welcome Kim You will enjoy it here. Marj

[galina]

Kim

welcome from Northants. You will like it here, great bunch of lovely people. Enjoy.

[michaeljohnson]

Go on"-Lottie, I dare you to ask Canada Mike and take him up on his offer, and ask for 700 melons varieties- , an O,S,U-Blue tomato would be colorless by comparison. ;D

No"-really I was only joking, Mikes a good old sort in reality.

[atash]

Greetings from Seattle. We have a climate vaguely similar to that of London, but higher median temperature, and less equable (lower winter lows, higher summer highs). Soil here is acidic.

[raymondo]

Hi and welcome Kim. The area I live in is called New England, though having lived in the UK I can say with absolute confidence that where I live bears absolutely no resemblance to England!