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[Andrew Shipp]

Hi all,  How is everyone keeping?  What is going on  in your gardens  just now? Here  where I live now I  have a garden to help to look after which is  40 foot  by  100 feet,  it is all divided  up in to smaller plots  and cannot wait to get a vegetable  plot going,  lots of work to do the gardens haven't been looked after for years,  although they only laid the gardener  off in May this year,  I suppose  it was because he didn't do much if any thing.  Peter Skivington   is  agood gardener  very helpful,  hopefully between him myself and one other person we can get these gardens looking good again. I think there is also a lot of wasted  space  here in the garden so I am going to talk to the right people and see what we can do.  Does anyone know of a good  place  either on the internet  where I can get some all the year around herbs  plants? I need to get things moving now start making a difference around here.   Take care all and I am pleased to be back with you all.  Take care  look forward to your messages.

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[Christine Weetman]

Hi Andy, oh wow, this is great news, so glad you've decided to get your greenfingers out to help with your own little plot.  Peter Skivington is on this group too, so he may step in and offer some words of wisdom for you too.

 

Wilkinsons sell some cheap things, if you like letuice they are easy to grow and will soon fill your place and at the same time will come in very handy.  I don't know much about herbs, so if you can tell me then that would be nice?

 

We have a pot of chives in our greenhouse, but we haven't picked them and they flowered! I never knew chives could do that?  So will these flowers turn into seeds?  If so, maybe I could send you some in an envelope.

 

We have been talking about seed swapping on the group, but it looks like that will have to be within our own countries.

 

Speak soon, Christine.

[Dr Norman Waddington]

Hi Andrew,

 

Nice that you can get into gardening again.  You will have something to get your teeth into.

 

I will have a think about herbs.

 

Norman.

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[Ron Sears]

Christine, I guess the old spelling is up the creek?  Otherwise I don't know these vegetables,smile.

 

Ron

[Christine Weetman]

Hi Ron, lol yes, of course I meant lettuce but I never re-read my email! ha ha ha Silly me!  How are you keeping and your garden too? Or maybe that should have been wife? Smiles.  Take care of yourselves and hope to chat soon.  Christine.

[Andrew Shipp]

Hi Norman,  Nice to be back on the list,  I would be very grateful  if you could tell me  about  growing Herbs  and when to get them and  every thing else to do with them. 

[Paula Kilburn]

Christine did you know you can eat the flowers of the chives?

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[Mark Smith]

Dear Christine

 

Do you read Braille Christine, as I have a book on crowing Herbs and I think I also have a DAISY CD if this is playable for you?

 

Regards

 

Mark

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[Andrew Shipp]

Hi Mark,  Nice to see your still on the group,  That CD you might have  could I please be cheeky  and ask if you could do a copy  for me please.  Hope things in the garden are doing well.  Andy Shipp

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[Dr Norman Waddington]

Mark,

 

If you can why not put it on sendspace so that people could download it.

 

Norman.

[Andrew Shipp]

Hi Mark,  If you cannot do that  send the cd to me and I'll do it  that is put it on send space.

[Mark Smith]

Andrew

 

I have just noticed on the organic catalogue web site that they sell herb seeds, and I suspect herb plants as well.  Give them a try at www.organiccatalogue.com

 

Hope this helps.

 

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[Andrew Shipp]

Hi Mark many thanks for this very much appreciated. 

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[Christine Weetman]

Oh yay, wow, would be a great idea Norman, let's hope he does!  Mark, Please?  Christine.

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[Christine Weetman]

Hi Mark, I can manage either, so please let me know which you have and how much you'd like for them and I'll get back to you, but I'm going away in 8 hours time until Saturday. So chat then. Thanks for letting me know.  Christine.

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[Mark Smith]

Hello All, especially Andrew, Norman and Christine

 

I have been trying to copy the book from my hard drive to a CD, but think I do not have CD burning software, so can not do that.  However, I know I can download onto a SD or compact flash card, so if anyone would like a copy then please let me know and give me your home address (Off list please), and I am sure we can come to an arrangement.

 

I am not sure exactly how to upload onto Send Space Norman, but if this is easy please let me know and this may be another easy option and I can then send the link privately to those who want it.

 

Thanks

[Dr Norman Waddington]

Hi Mark,

 

As far as I understand it you need a Max Account with Sendspace.  I do have one but I am not sure how to upload.

 

I usually use mine for downloading large books etc.  As far as I know the maximum size for a file is 300 meg.

[Dr Norman Waddington]

Mark,

 

Can you download the files you refer too with a car reader?

 

Norman.

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[Andrew Shipp]

Hi Mark,  I wouldn't get a sendspace account unless  you do a lot of up loading of files.  the cost when I got mine at the beginning of this year was  £89 for 12 months,  I can up load  1 gig  files  with that.  but to be honest  I wouldn't  do it again.   Do you use windows media?  if you use version  11,  you can burn cd from that. But if you have no other way of sending the file  then don't worry about me,  I found a lot of info  on the  web.  Thanks all the same.  Andy

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[Mark Smith]

Yes I can Norman, and my card reader can take SD or compact flash cards.

[Mark Smith]

Hi Andy

 

NO sorry I do not have this version of windows  media player, and think its v 10, but I will have to check this out.

 

Pleased you have found lots of info.

 

Best wishes

[Mark Smith]

Thanks for this info Norman.

 

Mark

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[Andrew Shipp]

Hi Mark,  I did tell you  in the last email,  that if you have this account  with sendspace,  you can upload  up to 1 gig,  size files,  I know this as I do have the  Max account  with sendspace. but if you want to pay out that  sort of money  and hardly  use it  then it is a waist. £89  I could find more  things to spend that  on.

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[Mark Smith]

Hello Andrew

 

Yes I quite agree with you an will not be using this service.

[Mark Smith]

Hi Christine

 

I am quite happy to post you the book on growing herbs in Braille for you to borrow for a while if you like?

 

Sorry for taking so long to reply.

 

Best wishes

[Roy]

Mark, you didn't say if your greenhouse is heated, if not if you are actually growing plants or just overwintering such as geraniumsin whicjh case light doesn't matter, for example my geraniums in my conservatory had been forgotten overwinter so received no waterat all but in early spring they sprouted and I took cuttings, that are all doing well.  Now if you intend to grow on perhaps letuce, then they would require all possible lightso you must take down that netting.  hope this may be of some help.

[Andrew Shipp]

Hi Mark,  I am sorry to tell you that Christine is no longer a member of the blind gardening group.  she has her own gardening group now on Yahoogroups.

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[Mark Smith]

Thanks Andrew, I should have thought of this - sorry

[Mark Smith]

HI Roy

 

The greenhouse is not heated, as we are on an allotment site with no electricity supply, so not really possible to heat apart from using bottled gas to fire up the heaters.

 

I will be growing and in fact have some  iceberg lettuces  in there at the moment, so think I will probably remove at least half of the shade netting.

 

Thanks

[bele]

the unsub won't work  still - please unsub me

bele

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