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23-03-2005, 04:34 PM

wrote:
:: Hello to all!
:: I'm new to this site and am looking forward to learning all that I
:: can from you, as well as giving opinions, if I feel qualified to
:: do so! ;o) I am an American, in America and will be moving to
:: England sometime this year... I love to garden - flowers, herbs
:: and lately, veggies! My hubby is from there (Lincoln)... and about
:: all the gardening he had done was growing bamboo!
:: Now, I need to know how things work over there... Are there any
:: sites I can go to to learn how the zones work there? What can be
:: grown there? Are your zones numbered the same as ours? What kind
:: of growing seasons do you have? Yadda, yadda... Also, I've been
:: reading the thread about greenhouses... Are these houses just to
:: start seeds and transfer out or are the seasons so short that they
:: might as well be left to do their thing in a greenhouse? Can these
:: greenhouses be used for a winter garden?
:: I don't want to offend anyone, so please let me know if there is
:: something I had said that was out of line... I know all to well
:: that there is a slight difference between my version of English
:: and yours. ;o) Thank you!
:: I'd appreciate all your help!

Zones?

It's fairly cold in Britain, we need the greenhouses for most plants native
to warmer countries like tomatoes, grapes, melons, cucumbers etc...these
don't grow well outdoors over here, most seeds are started off in
greenhouses too, to give them an earlier start.

I can't figure out what you could mean by 'zones'...unless you mean like
timezones? and that kind of thing? - your 'zones' - some are hot while
others are cool?....I'm afraid we don't have those over here, it's just cold
everywhere, slightly less so in the south.

Living in a massive place like America I suppose you assume Britain is
similarly huge?...I've heard it will fit snugly into the state of Oregon,
both are approx 95,000 sq miles.