Hi Laura, welcome to the veggi group. I hadn't noticed anyone introducing themselves over here, (although I have only been posting here for a few months): I just jumped in, but it seems like a good idea.

My name is chas and it has been 52 years since my last non vegetable gardening.

Most of my vegetable gardening was in central California where I fought the slugs and earwigs and now I live in central North Carolina where I grow summer veggies and landscape the yard while fighting with Bambi and Thumper.

hi and welcome

Welcome! Zackey is my cat. Somehow when I tried to enter Zackeysmom as my handle it got screwed up. I'm Maggie. This is a great forum! I've learned alot and I try to help people when I can.

Laura, hi! Welcome! Tell us a bit about your vege garden!

Hello and welcome! I too never introduced myself, just started posting LOL! I love this forum. So informative and everyone has great ideas and advice!

Hi and welcome,

These forums are great, however you have to watch out for trolls and some highly opinionated people from time to time:). Some of these threads get out of control every now and then, but it usually makes for some good entertainment...

Mike

Hello. I am a new member as well. I just signed up a few minutes ago. I've been gardening for 30 years (50 if you count growing up on the farm but gardening then was just chores). I still don't know much so this forum looks like a great place to learn new things.

If you don't know much at 30 (50) years, I'm quite the beginner at 10 years!
I learn most everything from a couple of books, but mostly here!
Just hope you don't have to share a computer as you browse these forums, cause it can be addicting! I have to limit myself! Have fun! Nancy

Hi:

I found these forums about a month ago when looking to identify a tomato problem. Since then, I have spent countless hours reading thread after thread. What a wonderful collection of knowledge.

This is my first year with an outdoor garden. I built two 5' x 24' raised beds in my backyard. I spend all my free time there.

Thanks to these forums I have learned a lot in a short amount of time. My main focus is building up some good soil for the future.

Thanks to all those who post here, you are a tremendous source of information.

Well come on then, give us the juicy details! what do you grow, what kind of garden, what successes and what setbacks have you experienced?

I think this forum is so lively and active because gardening is a learning experience, and the only way to learn what works is by trying stuff... and these forums allow us the chance to share experience and our own trials with what works.

It might be worth mentioning that your timely responses are important in building a discourse, lol.