Hi All,
I am a very new gardener – as is about 3 mths or so ago I decided I needed to show my grandaughters that food grows and is not just bought. I am now addicted to growing things but am a rank amateur.

Horty is a great friend of mine and I have badgered her for info since I started. She has now let me know about your forum and she thinks that there is at lot she doesn’t know about growing veges and fruit and she knows I am going to be keen, but so ignorant, and that you all might be able to guide me. So I hope you don’t mind if I look and take in your forum and ask the occasional question.

Cheers,
Pete

Aaaaarrgghh! STALKER!!!
ROFL! :D
pete said:

So I hope you don’t mind if I look and take in your forum and ask the occasional question.

Occasional? cough splutter LMAO! Just teasing!

pete said:

Hi All,
I am a very new gardener – as is about 3 mths or so ago I decided I needed to show my grandaughters that food grows and is not just bought. I am now addicted to growing things but am a rank amateur.

Horty is a great friend of mine and I have badgered her for info since I started. She has now let me know about your forum and she thinks that there is at lot she doesn’t know about growing veges and fruit and she knows I am going to be keen, but so ignorant, and that you all might be able to guide me. So I hope you don’t mind if I look and take in your forum and ask the occasional question.

Cheers,
Pete

Welcome pete. For many of us it’s been trial and error too, and we share our experiences (both gardening and “other”). Come join the mayhem. You’ll be most welcome

hortfurball said:

Aaaaarrgghh! STALKER!!!
ROFL! :D
pete said:

So I hope you don’t mind if I look and take in your forum and ask the occasional question.

Occasional? cough splutter LMAO! Just teasing!

I assume you are also in WA pete?

Thanks Anne, This will be really good to liaise and chat etc. Pete

Yes and stalk Horty daily!!

pete said:

Yes and stalk Horty daily!!

ROFL

AnneS said:

I assume you are also in WA pete?

Sorry I am learning the system and HORTY is teaching me so bear with me as it could take……..
Horty is helping me via ph so will catch you all later.

Cheers,
Pete

Welcome Pete, always nice to see another Perthie here.

I’m very new to veg growing too, and these guys are an awesome help :)

pete said:

Hi All,
I am a very new gardener – as is about 3 mths or so ago I decided I needed to show my grandaughters that food grows and is not just bought. I am now addicted to growing things but am a rank amateur.

Horty is a great friend of mine and I have badgered her for info since I started. She has now let me know about your forum and she thinks that there is at lot she doesn’t know about growing veges and fruit and she knows I am going to be keen, but so ignorant, and that you all might be able to guide me. So I hope you don’t mind if I look and take in your forum and ask the occasional question.

Cheers,
Pete

Welcome to our home Pete. The more the merrier round here.

bon008 said:

Welcome Pete, always nice to see another Perthie here.

I’m very new to veg growing too, and these guys are an awesome help :)

Thanks, It’s going to be a big learning curve but fun – It’s been so much fun growing what I have so far but I really need to learn a lot to get better!!

pomolo said:

Thanks heaps!

pete said:

Hi All,
I am a very new gardener – as is about 3 mths or so ago I decided I needed to show my grandaughters that food grows and is not just bought. I am now addicted to growing things but am a rank amateur.

Horty is a great friend of mine and I have badgered her for info since I started. She has now let me know about your forum and she thinks that there is at lot she doesn’t know about growing veges and fruit and she knows I am going to be keen, but so ignorant, and that you all might be able to guide me. So I hope you don’t mind if I look and take in your forum and ask the occasional question.

Cheers,
Pete

There is a lot all of us don’t know.

Even if we studied it at Uni.

Which by the way is why we are all here.

Please note all I am going to mess up a bit with the quote/reply system for a little while. sorry

I mess with it all he time.

pete said:

pomolo said:

Thanks heaps!

I see my tips on quoting worked…. ROFL :D

Oh dear, it’s contagious…

Don’t worry Pete, all you did was miss an extra bit of bracket when you were erasing some of the content. A small thing can make the quotes go haywire.

pete said:

Please note all I am going to mess up a bit with the quote/reply system for a little while. sorry

You wouldn’t be the first lol!
Welcome Pete :) As AnneS said, come join the mayhem, hehe I like that..

Oh and Pete, although I’ve gardened and grown plants for years, I have only ventured into growing food plants for the last couple of those years. Well theres no stopping me now, I’ve turned into a rabid vege muncher monster, yum yum yum! and it’s mainly thanks to the advice of the terrific people on this forum :D

Hi Pete, welcome to the family!
We’re all stumbling along in the garden and some know more than others but we do help and encourage each other as you have seen. Enjoy your time on here!

hi Pete, and welcome. Always good to see new people drop in.

g’day pete

we had better be careful here – you’ve almost got a good name – if someone puts a ‘p’ where there should have been a ‘t’ we are both gonna be answering LOL.

Welcome Pete.

Nice people here, very supportive and knowledgeable.

pepe said:

g’day pete

we had better be careful here – you’ve almost got a good name – if someone puts a ‘p’ where there should have been a ‘t’ we are both gonna be answering LOL.

OK Pepe. You could add another ‘e’ and be Peepe. Add an ‘r’ and you could be Peeper. I can think of lots of possibilities but some of them would be censored.

HI Pete and welcome:)

Your in good (but crazy) hands here…lol

On another Note too……………….

Earth Girl contacted me through face book and I gave her our link for here too. So hoping she drops by:D

Hi Pete, yep good to have some more Perthites about…it’s all helpful one way or another.

G’day Pete.
Be careful if the sheilas all get on at the same time.
They can be a handful…

I’ll give you my gardening tip which fixes many problems, before they arise.
If your soil is crap, you’ll get crap vegies.
If your soil is OK, you’ll get ok vegies.
If your soil is excellent, you’ll get excellent vegies.
Organic matter and good drainage make for excellent soil.
All else is secondary.

Longy said:

G’day Pete.
Be careful if the sheilas all get on at the same time.
They can be a handful…

I’ll give you my gardening tip which fixes many problems, before they arise.
If your soil is crap, you’ll get crap vegies.
If your soil is OK, you’ll get ok vegies.
If your soil is excellent, you’ll get excellent vegies.
Organic matter and good drainage make for excellent soil.
All else is secondary.

Succinct as ever Longy. :)

Longy said:

G’day Pete.
Be careful if the sheilas all get on at the same time.
They can be a handful…

I’ll give you my gardening tip which fixes many problems, before they arise.
If your soil is crap, you’ll get crap vegies.
If your soil is OK, you’ll get ok vegies.
If your soil is excellent, you’ll get excellent vegies.
Organic matter and good drainage make for excellent soil.
All else is secondary.

Ya forgot water. If your area is on water restrictions, and you don’t have a bore or tank water, you may not be able to grow all you might want to.

Happy Potter said:

Longy said:

G’day Pete.
Be careful if the sheilas all get on at the same time.
They can be a handful…

I’ll give you my gardening tip which fixes many problems, before they arise.
If your soil is crap, you’ll get crap vegies.
If your soil is OK, you’ll get ok vegies.
If your soil is excellent, you’ll get excellent vegies.
Organic matter and good drainage make for excellent soil.
All else is secondary.

Ya forgot water. If your area is on water restrictions, and you don’t have a bore or tank water, you may not be able to grow all you might want to.

This is very true.

pete said:

Yes and stalk Horty daily!!

Someone has to…

Happy Potter said:

Longy said:

G’day Pete.
Be careful if the sheilas all get on at the same time.
They can be a handful…

I’ll give you my gardening tip which fixes many problems, before they arise.
If your soil is crap, you’ll get crap vegies.
If your soil is OK, you’ll get ok vegies.
If your soil is excellent, you’ll get excellent vegies.
Organic matter and good drainage make for excellent soil.
All else is secondary.

Ya forgot water. If your area is on water restrictions, and you don’t have a bore or tank water, you may not be able to grow all you might want to.

Nope. Didn’t forget water. If you have excellent soil with lots of organic matter, your water requirements will be less. If you have abundant water and crap soil, your vegies will still be crap. ( A few exceptions of course). Therefore, water is necessary, but is still secondary to the soil quality.

G’day Pete. Be careful if the sheilas all get on at the same time. They can be a handful…
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Poke finger in cheek…who us lot??? Never…………………..lol

Hey I am still getting used to the website but wish to thank everyone for their welcome.
Cheers, Pete

Hey I am still getting used to the website but wish to thank everyone for their welcome.
Cheers, Pete