Hello from Dewsbury.
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 4:38 pm
Hello all! I’m Steve Peat and have been growing cacti in some form or other since I was a child growing up in Peru. I was involved in the Sheffield branch for a number of years, in the days when it was the NCSS, then spent 22 years as a missionary in Arequipa, Peru, until returning to the UK at the end of 2018. I had a fairly large collection of cacti and succulents which was often neglected due to work pressures. I now have a very few plants, on windowsills for the winter and a 6 foot square polythene unheated greenhouse made from wood scraps! When we eventually get our own place I hope to set up a proper greenhouse. Until then I have to make the most of our small rented house where I am just setting up a small propagator with LED lights so as to start off some seeds this winter. They will probably stay in their bags for the next year or so. Until lockdown, I had been going to the meetings of the Leeds BCSS branch.
