Subj : Re: Introduction
To   : beardy
From : Avon
Date : Sun Jan 09 2022 04:36 pm

On 09 Jan 2022 at 02:52a, beardy pondered and said...
 
 be> Greetings FSX_GARDENING,

Hi Beardy

 be> When I saw the area listing of fsxNet, this one got me really excited,
 be> apart from the general BBS high I was in when setting up my board not
 be> too long ago. I saw the post on statistics of the echomail areas
 be> elsewhere, and hope that this area will get some usage, because I want
 be> it to stay.

:) well posting to this echo and getting some traffic in it will certainly help 
that cause, so thanks for doing so :) Hopefully a few others may care to join 
in too :)

 be> I got into growing/gardening, due to where I currently live - indoors
 be> and on a balcony, a few years ago.

How fascinating, what sort of climate are you in and given the locale I can 
only imagine you're rather creative when it comes to getting stuff growing? Is 
it vegetables you grow or flowers?

 be> I grew up on a farm, in the countryside, with animals, and plants.
 be> But, it is only now when I have gotten a bit older (38) that I have
 be> gotten interested in growing and gardening myself. When I grew up I was
 be> only interested in computers, games, "the Internet", and so on.
 be> Now, I dream of having a greenhouse (or many), or a vegetable growing
 be> business, a small farm, or atleast a big house with some land or a huge
 be> garden and becoming more self sustainable.

My grandfather (now deceased, he passed a 100 and a half in 2012) was always a 
keen gardener and as a kid visiting his house I was always interested and 
amazed at what he grew. Like you I was keen on all things Internet / computing 
and for me that started in the 1980's and onwards. I'm now 50+ and I'd say it 
was in the last 6-7 years so my late 40s that the interest in gardening and 
spending time outside etc. has really taken more of a hold on me. I find it a 
nice break from screen time which I rack up with my working life.

 be> Growing up I didn't realize how lucky I was living on a small farm, with
 be> all kinds of growing possibilities, had I only been interested in it at
 be> the time. But, life and people change. I now have a job with "computers"
 be> and "the Internet", and now I want other things in life too, and I will
 be> get it some day.
 
I'm sure you will and it's cool you can find a way now to dabble etc. While 
it's nice to have more land it also means more to look after, weed, etc. :)

 be> One learns a lot from having constraints, as growing on a balcony and
 be> shelves with growlights in the kitchen gives you.
 be> I wanted to get into hydroponics, but so far it has been mostly soil
 be> growing. On my growing shelves things that I want to try to overwinter
 be> takes up so much space, that my plans of doing some hydroponics gets
 be> delayed, but, soon I will get that going too hopefully.

I have not done any hydroponics but saw something on our local TV news the 
other night about a business supplying micro-greens?? to Auckland restaurants 
that were grown hydroponic-ally in a basement of a building that used to be a 
night club, the new business was doing well.

 be> (Now, I wish Enigma1/2's editor would allow me to change the subject
 be> after I have started writing, or to be able to save the text as a draft,
 be> but it doesn't seem to be possible, so I will have to copy this out and
 be> make another post, as this one became more of an introduction of myself
 be> to this area, and not about a variety of tomatoes, as I planned when I
 be> started writing. :) )

I gave tomatoes a miss this summer here (it's currently my summer here in New 
Zealand) and instead we grew courgettes, cucumber, lettuces, broccoli and 
cauliflowers. Have had some issues with aphids but otherwise they are going 
well.

Nice to meet you.

Best, Paul

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