What have you discovered today that made you smile?

zarazara

Hurray! Hurray!

EmptyPockets

Finally, at long last, flowers starting to open on our tomato plants!!! Phew, it feels like we've been waiting months. Oh wait... we have

pookiewn

My OH just had his first home grown Mange tout, his face lit up.

The blackfly have taken to eating the dandelions and leaving my veg alone, win win I think!

sparrer

Mr.Mulla wrote: »

I discovered a new area in my garden that I can maximize to grow more herbs

Same here Mr Mulla, I had an old shed taken down leaving an area about 7' x 11' backed by a 6' high brick wall.Can't get down to garden any more so am thinking of paving it (asking on freecycle for slabs, pretty please ) and next year pot growing whatever is most cost effective. The wall will have hanging baskets for toms and whatever other ideas I can glean from the forum, but for now there's a lot of hard labour for someone to prepare the area. Am saving up already and can't wait to get started :j

kimmee

Was doing a bit of ironing in my conservatory early this morning and was looking at my big rose bush, I inherited it with the house and it must be about 20 years old. I prune it every spring and every summer it puts on the most wonderful display, reaching about 8 feet tall with so many blooms that are first almost 'barbie' pink but then fade to a light pink and it blooms usually right into October - that put me in a good mood for the day (even if I was ironing at the time!!)

rosie383

Went to pick some strawberries for dessert, thinking I would only get a few, but I had so many my hands couldn't fit them!!!!! That was great considering we just got about 6 in total last year and just left the plants to do their own thing all winter!

jaxx46

Got this in an e-mail this morning... Made me smile
You Know You’re Addicted to Gardening When…
Your neighbors recognize you in your pajamas, rubber clogs and a cup of coffee
You grab other people’s banana peels, coffee grinds, apple cores, etc. for your compost pile.
You have to wash your hair to get your fingernails clean.
All your neighbors come and ask you questions.
You know the temperature of your compost every day.
You buy a bigger truck so that you can haul more mulch.
You enjoy crushing Japanese beetles because you like the sound that it makes.
Your boss makes “taking care of the office plants” an official part of your job description.
Everything you touch turns to “fertilizer”.
Your non-gardening spouse becomes conversant in botanical names
You find yourself feeling leaves, flowers and trunks of trees wherever you go, even at funerals
You dumpster-dive for discarded bulbs after commercial landscapers remove them to plant annuals
You plan vacation trips around the locations of botanical gardens, arboreta, historic gardens, etc.
You sneak home a 7 foot Japanese Maple and wonder if your spouse will notice
When considering your budget, plants are more important than groceries
You always carry a shovel, bottled water and a plastic bag in your trunk as emergency tools
You appreciate your Master Gardener badge more than your jewelry
You talk “dirt” at football practice.
You spend more time chopping your kitchen greens for the compost pile than for cooking
You like the smell of horse manure better than Estee Lauder
You rejoice in rain…even after 10 straight days of it.
You have pride in how bad your hands look.
You have a decorative compost container on your kitchen counter.
You can give away plants easily, but compost is another thing.
Soil test results actually mean something.
You understand what IPM means and are happy about it
You’d rather go to a nursery to shop than a clothes store.
You know that Sevin is not a number
You take every single person who enters your house on a “garden tour”
You look at your child’s sandbox and see a raised bed.
You ask for tools for Christmas, Mother/Father’s day, your Birthday and any other occasion you can think of.
You can’t bear to thin seedlings and throw them away.
You scold total strangers who don’t take care of their potted plants.
You know how many bags of fertilizer/potting soil,/mulch your car will hold.
You drive around the neighborhood hoping to score extra bags of leaves for your compost pile
Your preferred reading matter is seed catalogs
And last but not least:
You know that the four seasons are:
Planning the Garden
Preparing the Garden
Gardening
~and~
Preparing and Planning for the next Garden
-Author Unknown, I’d love to give credit to the rightful author.x

lostinrates

My mother has decided she doesn't like a beautiful apricot pink rose and I've been told to collect it at the end of the season! Also, watered a desiccated young strawberry that I'd forgotten about I thought we'd lose last night and this morning its as perky as can be.

kimmee

I've just found my first teeny tiny tomato on my Gardeners Delight :j

zarazara

just the lovely weather.