What have you discovered today that made you smile?

soul619

I know some of us garden to get away from the everyday stresses, some of us so that we know where our food is coming from, some of us so that we can save a few quid and some of us because its in our blood.

But all of us enjoy it, we enjoy going out and digging around in the mud come rain and shine and it makes us happy :jI love reading about all of your achievements and the silly things that make us all smile so i thought lets have a happy thread so when were down we can share the smiles of each other.

Today all be it small i noticed another set of flowers :T on one of my tom plants were i already have 1 tiny little green tom off the 1st set of flowers and as i have never grew anything before this simple thing made me smile and now i will be happier for the 3 hours im at work today.

kimmee

Wonderful idea for a thread soul619

I've just discovered some tiny flower buds on my sweet pepper plants that I have raised from seed and that will make me for the rest of the day while I'm at work and as it's a bank holiday weekend I'll be smiling even more as I'll have 3 whole days to spend in my beloved garden

lostinrates

There is so much coming out ATM I feel almost assaulted with the impact of new blooms and promise. Instead I'm going to report that for the first time ever yesterday I tried taking clematis cuttings. I think I did it incorrectly, but it still made me smile I was trying

smithyjules

It was yesterday morning which really made me smile. I took my 3 year old DD out into the garden to investigate for any seed progress. Low and behold we have 3 apple seedlings (DD desperately wanted to plant these although I'm not exactly sure what we'll do with them lol!), sunflowers just popping up, the first tiny sprout from our sweetcorn plants and DD's potato in a pot bursting from the compost it was buried in the day before!!We are a little late with everything but have just got an allotment so we're having a go anyway!

The growth in the garden was fab to see but it was my little girls face that was a picture!!!

katholicos

soul619 wrote: »

I know some of us garden to get away from the everyday stresses, some of us so that we know where our food is coming from, some of us so that we can save a few quid and some of us because its in our blood.

I garden for three of the reasons you mention here....to get away from everyday stresses (and stressors who don't follow me into the garden ) ...and also because i want to know what is in my food and where it came from....i'm not an 'air mile freak' but i want to know that my veggies haven't had to cross an ocean to get on to my plate....also, money saving comes into it as there is no sense paying good money for veg that can be easily grown at home.

For example, yesterday in a supermarket, i was behind a lady who had on the conveyor belt many single sized packs of fresh salads and pre-sliced carrots and such like. Now her shopping is her business but i couldn't help but think of how much money she could be saving with a very little effort!

Over the last 5 years I have been trying to contend with accumulated debt....the majority of it has been dealt with thanks to my implimenting many old style ways of cooking and caring for the home and also my attempts to wean myself off being fed the consumerist line that i need certain products/items to be happy and certain foods to feed my family etc. My aim is to go back to basics in many ways, and gardening is one of the means of my doing that.

Quite apart from all this, there is something very special about being connected with nature in this way....i used to think that people had gardening 'in their blood' or they didn't...and that if you weren't born into it then there wasn't much point in trying as it would all go wrong...but now i know that is not true...and that even the most inexperienced gardeners like myself can facilitate the growth of edibles and non edibles. To me, that is tremendously exciting and it puts a great big smile on my face.

Thanks for ths thread, it's a great idea

Optimisticpair

I like it when people come here and discover that there is a deep down lasting satisfaction to be had in making their own and growing their own, because it truly is individual, personal and connected to them, and that home made is often far from being inferior or as difficult to produce as sales pitches would have us believe. That makes me smile.

I like my independence and making something that reflects who I am and isn't identical to four million other peoples and that it will always be especially personal because it can't be taken off a warehouse shelf .

heynonnynonny

katholicos wrote: »

For example, yesterday in a supermarket, i was behind a lady who had on the conveyor belt many single sized packs of fresh salads and pre-sliced carrots and such like. Now her shopping is her business but i couldn't help but think of how much money she could be saving with a very little effort!

I shudder at the cost of bagged salads, now I know for the same price I can buy 2000 seeds and grow a ton more in my own back garden!! Just wish I had started sooner but better late than never.

delmar39

I've just moved into a new house and put some new trees in (cotoneaster cornubia x 3 and 1 x common hornbeam) plus various plants. As it's their first season it makes me smile when I see flower buds developing on my cotoneasters and I just love the leaves on my hornbeam. My butterfly bush was really small when I planted it, but now it's beginning to grow very quickly and it makes me smile thinking ahead to when the butterflies will feed of it. I've also had some uplights fitted to the original stone wall running down one side of the house and it makes me smile when they're switched on at dusk just as the sun is going down - of course I have wine or beer in hand! It's just great to watch things grow and I always have a walk around the front and rear gardens each morning to see what's happening. I've got 12 pyracantha's along my rear fence and the flower buds are just about ready to come out. Awesome! The missus thinks I'm daft, but I love it ;-)

EmptyPockets

Two things made me smile today. Firstly, while making hubby's packed-lunch at 6.30am, I noticed from the kitchen window that 'our' blackbird chick has finally fledged. We've been watching Mr & Mrs Blackbird working hard daily, to and from the nest in our garden, and have often been lucky enough to get a good glimpse of little chick. This morning we finally saw him with parents, sitting having a drink from one of the birdbaths, and following Mum around :T

Secondly, finding that no more slug/caterpillar/whatever damage has been done to our swede plants overnight! They might just survive afterall

lovelife_3

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Orange_King

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