On Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 8:12:58 AM UTC+1, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 19:09:48 +0200, Norrette
wrote:


..I woke up this morning and the names slug girl* and pester boy* came
into my head, for no reason other than I had a day planned for
gardening.

Lo and behold Google tells me that UK.rec.gardening is still going. I
expect many of us left off as life gets so busy in the this
do-it-yourself internet world. Will I have time to keep with this
forum? I hope to.

I left off gardening for many years as next door's 4 leylandii planted
in a 6 foot row stripped my garden of light, food and water. But I am
most grateful for the new neighbours who moved in and cut them down.
Normally, I'd tie myself to a tree to stop the chain saws - but this
time I did a little jig in the front room!

Problem I have now is finding the energy the dig over a large 12' x 12'
bed that has been neglected for 10 years ...I'm not as young as I was.

(* or is it the other way around)

Welcome back. But be aware that you're posting via garden banter,
which isn't uk.rec.gardening, but a commercial site masquerading as a
forum or newsgroup, and which plagiarises urg.

--

Chris

Gardening in West Cornwall overlooking the sea.
Mild, but very exposed to salt gales

Thanks for welcomes. Good to know about the Banter website - I'd hoped it would be a way of avoiding spammers through Google. (My ISP no longer takes news groups.)

This year was also the first for ages I watched Chelsea on the box - good to see more emphasis on plants and less on garden 'hardware'

Norrette