Hello

Just to say hello, and say a little about myself.
I am 72 and a little disabled with RA, but I manage to keep gardening.
I have not been able to garden for the last couple of years, but with the help of a cardiac surgeon, I am able to get back to it.
I have been a sufferer for 40 years with RA and planned a new garden some 12 years ago knowing that it would get harder as I got older.
I have quite a large patch and had a landscape garden firm to come in and change my garden from a lawned and flowerbed and vegetable plot, into a pebbled and membraned covered area, with raised beds and plenty of containers.
I know some of you keen lads/lasses will cringe at the mention of pebbles and containers, but needs must.
I have a large irregular shaped garden with a smallish garden at the side of the house and a very small front garden.
I joined because I saw you cater for the disabled, and that is encouraging.
It would have been very easy to just let my garden go to a paid gardener, but that would have been for just one day a fortnight because of expense, I set to and now with my wife getting there, even taking on major tasks like rehashing whole areas.
My gardener gets all the heavy jobs:D
For those of you interested I have a 5000 gallon koi fishpond 22 ft. long 8 ft wide and 6 ft deep, with quite a few fish in.
I do know quite a bit about fish having kept them for over 50 years.
I enlarge my text because of folks with bad eyesight, hope it is fine with admin.
Thanks for having me FA

 

Im new as well

 

Good evening FA and welcome to the site.

 

Thank you all for your nice welcome, I am sure at my age there is always something new to learn, and time changes the way tasks are done.
FA

 

Hello Fresh Air, welcome from another newbie.

 

hi and welcome your pond sounds impressive

 

Hi there welcome to GC