Greetings from the UK

Thanks for adding me , and thanks for the welcome via pm .   I'm in the UK , Cheshire north west .

I'm a Gardener by trade since 1991 , but only started growing veg 2 years ago .

My plot is small in my garden which has a koi pond , lawn and decking area , not a big Garden .

I have a cheap 4 x 4 green house , and 15 x 8 feet for square foot gardening , less the pathway I've put in , will post pics up soon and show you peeps where  i'm at and share the season with you .

Thanks

Mel

Mel, welcome from Ohio in the U.S.!  I spent a couple years stationed near Oxford, and toured the Liverpool area many times - that area reminded me of the U.S. Midwest where I was from.

Looking forward to seeing the pictures of your gardens. There is a wealth of information available here on the forum, so don't hesitate to use the Search tool to find archived knowledge.

BIGMEL wrote:Thanks for adding me , and thanks for the welcome via pm .   I'm in the UK , Cheshire north west .

I'm a Gardener by trade since 1991 , but only started growing veg 2 years ago .

My plot is small in my garden which has a koi pond , lawn and decking area , not a big Garden .

I have a cheap 4 x 4 green house , and 15 x 8 feet for square foot gardening , less the pathway I've put in , will post pics up soon and show you peeps where  i'm at and share the season with you .

Thanks

Mel

Sounds perfect to me. (LOve koi ponds.) from Northern California.

Hi Mel. Welcome from Atlanta, GA in the SE USA!

BigMel, welcome from Ottawa, Canada.  It's great to have you on board.  Looking forward to seeing pics of yours garden.

BTW, I am an expat originally from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire just down the M6 from where you are.

Hello Mel,
 Welcome to the site , I'm a hundred or so mile south of you just off the west end of the M4  , to the north north east of it  between Penygroes & Llandybie , been doing ANSFG ( all new square foot gardening )  for a fair while ( since I joined the site )  But had actually been doing it unknowingly in Mel's original form  of square foot gardening for almost 30 years .

 I migrated to the soil less mode that Mel came up with in 2010 just after we moved houses & find it far superior to his original method that combined MM with mother earth . 

Welcome to the site . Do you make your own home made composts yet? 
Some of the things we do turn  old fashioned gardening on its head.. 

All my 36 inch high raised brick built beds ( about 220 sq ft )  are filled with the thing referred to as " Mel's Mix"   to a depth of about two feet . It took me a while but the effort is well worth it .
 In the gallery area of the site are some of our crops the 42 inch runner bean  was delicious , not even a hint of being stringy . 

As a result I grow some amazing crops the like of which I've rarely ever had in 51 years of gardening as an adult using manured or enhanced mother natures soil .

 In my strap line  are details of the book we use to guide us ,  so we can all sing off the same hymn sheet . 

There is a third edition available .

I'm not on site so often these days now my beds are well established and easy to work , if you need get hold of me to drop me a PM , it comes up in my emails 

Dave aka Plantoid 

PS 
" Composting 101"  is a thread title in  our site that you may find very useful .

Mel,  Welcome to the Forum from the west coast U.S.!   We love photos!