What have you discovered today that made you smile?

foreign_correspondent

I picked 8lbs of cherries this morning off my little backyard tree!

I have been watching them ripen for a while, then this morning when I opened the blind, it was like Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds' on out back garden - I shot out and shooed them all off, picked the cherries, and put all the damaged/pecked ones on the bird table - as soon as I lugged my haul back indoors, they were back and scoffing away!

Looks like I will be making cherry jam soon though!

TravellingAbuela

I grovelled around in one of my potato tubs yesterday, fishing out just enough new potatoes for tea. Had them with a salad, using my own lovingly grown salad leaves and radish. Mmmmm! Even brought a smile to OH's face! How I wish we had an allotment and could grow even more things!

lovelife_3

What makes me smile every day is a deeply instinctive feeling, a real connection with nature and life itself, that i knew about before, but have only really felt this year since growing my own veg etc. Sometimes i feel so euphoric I literally dance around the garden:D

benjismum

hethmar wrote: »

My first tomatoes are forming Aint it wonderful, seeing these little miracles every day.:T

Same here!

ratty67

My sweet peas have started flowering.

My runner beans and dwarf french beans have flower buds.

My enormous phormium tenax (flax) in the back garden is going to flower for the first time since it was given to us 3 years ago The one in the front garden flowers every year.

There'll be beetroot ready by the weekend plus baby carrots.

Have picked another half pound of strawberries this morning :j

GarnetLady

My dwarf broad beans have started podding (is that even a word? well is it now. ).

I was planting my bedding out the front yesterday and a neighbour stopped to introduce herself and tell me how lovely she thought the garden was.

And I spotted this too:

greenval

I've got a white perennial sweet Pea. I've only had pale/dark pink before even though I'd planted white as well. Anyway , white one finally made it and I've put some orange wool around the stem so I can save some seed from it.

kimmee

Today I discovered that my lonely french bean has finally flowered :j

I pulled a carrot up and found that they have grown wonderfully well and so I pulled up another 5 to go with our dinner :j

And my home grown sweet peas are a riot of colour :j

Another smiley day

Aries

My first Raspberries!! from canes I got from last years Thompson & Morgan offers.

soul619

i have just eaten my 1st handful of dwarf beans with my tea so tempted to pick more but there just not quite not ready yet