What have you discovered today that made you smile?

katholicos

This evening i picked a full handful of magetout and gav the dog a couple because she loves them. I've put a log border along both sides of the garden to prevent her getting to the veg...but when she sees me going towards the sugar snap peas she jumps over the border and expectantly sits at my feet waiting for her 'greens' off her mummy. This makes me smile :-)

frazzbo

I was excited to see my first pea starting to emerge from its flower. And there I was thinking the peas had given up and the mangetouts would win, and then they seem to have jumped back to life! I think I might plant a load more tomorrow.
I am also really pleased that it's raining just now - much as I'm loving growing all the veg, the watering part really is quite tedious, especially with a 7L can that I seem to have to fill up again and again!

sparrer

turkleton wrote: »

Does your cat have a magnet on it's collar? If it does it might be that the cutlery is sticking to the magnet and is then being taken outside on the collar or you may have another cat coming into the house and doing it. Sounds implausable I know but it happened to my parent's cutlery recently.

Good thoughts turkleton but my cats don't have collars, and other cats don't come in to my garden, let alone my house, as the dog sees them off in no uncertain terms! I'm getting paranoid, I'm counting the cutlery every time I open the drawer now :rotfl:

kimmee

I got up this morning to find it had rained overnight, and on checking the weather forecast for this area it seems we may have a more rain this afternoon - frazzbo, I feel your pain :rotfl:

EmptyPockets

Finallyyyyyyy, I have my first tomato forming! YAY!

Our swedes are forming really well, can just make out the tops of them!

The beetroot is starting to look ready for picking!

We have lots of little beans starting to form

And, there are more peas ready for picking!

That's my week's worth of smiles as I haven't posted on the thread for a while

lostinrates

kimmee wrote: »

I got up this morning to find it had rained overnight, and on checking the weather forecast for this area it seems we may have a more rain this afternoon

This is my smile...sort of. We need rain for this garden (my parents) but dry to cut our hay next week.

pookiewn

I found my first tomatoes! Three tiny green yellow pear :j

hethmar

My tomatoes are only flowering at the mo. I guess I should get some canes in to support them for when they fruit. I smiled yesterday as I found myself tapping the flowers - my dad used to get us kids to tap the tomato flowers, he reckoned that fertilised them.

hethmar

soul619 wrote: »

everything growing well, i have never done this before and for me to see things starting to form feels amazing

This made me smile I always think its such a miracle that we can get food from the ground. When I was young and helped my dad, it was like finding treasure when we dug up the potatoes. Such a thrill.

Optimisticpair

hethmar wrote: »

This made me smile I always think its such a miracle that we can get food from the ground. When I was young and helped my dad, it was like finding treasure when we dug up the potatoes. Such a thrill.

Me too, growing never loses its sparkle. I harvested another load of early spuds yesterday and had some for dinner mmmm :T