Hello all - from Sheffield!

SweetPea · Post: # 21735Post **SweetPea** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:30 pm

Hello all! I'm 25 and a research scientist living in Sheffield.

My partner and I recently moved from a flat into a house with a large garden and a dedicated vegetable patch and greenhouse. I started gardening as a complete novice back in February and now have potatoes, garlic, onions, carrots, lettuce, spinach and (one!) broccoli plant to show for my efforts! The greenhouse contains tomatoes, basil, cucumber and chillis. I've had some sucesses and some disasters over the last three months but I've enjoyed every minute. It's a learning curve! I'm keen to get some chickens in the future but I'm still a little unsure.

Very much looking forward to 'meeting' you all! :)

SP x

Andy Hamilton · Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:40 pm

Hello there sweetpea. Sounds like you are doing pretty well already.

I would expect more disasters along the way, it comes with the territory and makes the final produce seem much more deserved.

Millie · Post: # 21748Post **Millie** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:23 pm

Hi Sweetpea

hedgewitch · Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:38 pm

Hello and a welcome to the forum

SweetPea · Post: # 21763Post **SweetPea** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:37 pm

Hi everyone - thanks for the welcome messages! Millie - is the rabbit in your avatar your pet? He's gorgeous!

I'm really looking forward to posting on here - fab forum guys! :D

Millie · Post: # 21768Post **Millie** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:01 pm

SweetPea wrote:Hi everyone - thanks for the welcome messages! Millie - is the rabbit in your avatar your pet? He's gorgeous!

I'm really looking forward to posting on here - fab forum guys! :D

Yeah, thats my likkle Panda 8) Ive just got him a girlfriend, though shes a bit young for him still

Heres Panda laying outside Honeys cage, think he was trying to protect her, cos he wouldnt let anyone near her hutch

Panda is 7 months old, and Honey is about 10/12 weeks.

Just to show you how chilled out he is:

Manic 2 yr old? No probs!

Wombat · Post: # 21800Post **Wombat** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:06 pm

G'Day Sweetpea and welcome to the forum.

What is your line of research?

Nev

Millymollymandy · Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:17 am

Hi SweetPea! Good luck with the veggies. We all have our ups and downs and disasters but that's all part of the learning curve. And we never stop learning!

Millie - love your bunny!

Shirley · Post: # 21830Post **Shirley** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:41 am

Hi Sweetpea

Welcome to the forum

Used to go to a rock club in sheffield in my youth YAY was brilliant... and a great pub - frog and parrot or something like that.

Millie - love the pic of the rabbit and your little one (assume it's your littlie lol)

SweetPea · Post: # 21846Post **SweetPea** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:13 am

Aww, thanks for the pics, Millie - Panda and Honey are both adorable! I love rabbits. When I was a child my mum ran an informal rescue and rehoming centre for rabbits and guinea pigs, although naturally I wanted to keep them all

My OH and I have a cat, Olivia

(the grumpy looking beast in my second avatar!)

Nev - I work in nanotechnology, studying frictional forces at the atomic level. I'm based in the Chemistry department at the university and my background is chemistry, although through my current research I'm slowly becoming a physicist!

Shirlz - the Frog and Parrot is a great pub! I used to live just across the green from it, so the Frog and the Dev Cat formed my locals between them

I'm out in t'sticks now though!

ina · Post: # 21856Post **ina** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:26 am

Hi Sweetpea, and welcome!

Your line of research will come in useful - we often seem to have problems here where a bit of scientific advice is needed.

For a garden beginner you seem to be doing extremely well! Which reminds me, a friend gave me some sweetpea plants which need to go out today...