What have you discovered today that made you smile?

jaxx46

Thank you am off to look for that now x

wssla00

Hello all what's made me smile today is my harvest:
-parsnips
-chard
-baby leeks
-strawberries
-raspberries
-roses for the house
-beetroots
-tarragon for dinner
-catnip for the cats
-lavender for biccies
er...thats it I think...!

Woohoo!

jaxx46

Todays smile maker.... The look on my 15yr old ds face when he went to get his new bright yellow t shirt off the line and found it covered in the same little black beetles that are all over my cougettes, absolutely priceless :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

soul619

i am now at the stage were i am picking and freezing a few beans every couple of days now its great! makes me smile so much.. and mr hedgehog is eating his cat food nightly too now

ausmummy

The ladybirds have done their job and the black aphids seem to be under control for the time being. The green ones seem to have gone as quickly as they arrived.

Soul19 I'm at the same stage with about 2 handfulls of french beans everyday and at least 1 courgette every 2 days. It's nice to go and pull a carrot whenever I want aswell.

Orange_King

A nice tub of new potatoes was yesterdays smile clincher. They tasted absolutely superb too!

katholicos

I discovered the first opened flower on my courgette plant :-)

elsien

My water lily has flowered at last - I'm a very happy bunny.
I bought it off ebay last year, tended it all summer, pulled it up and kept in frost free and moist all winter, then put it back in the spring. Since then lots of mozzie larva and leaves and buggar all else. In sheer desperation I was contemplating buying a plastic flower to put in (it's a container with nothing else in except an oxygenator), when as if by magic.............it's a blooming miracle.

katholicos

Me and my daughter just ate a bowl of fresh picked home grown strawberries....they were delicious! They actually smelt like strawberries and tasted like strawberries....it might sond dim, but the ones i have bought in the shop after they have been flown half the way around the world just don't seem to taste or smell of anything in particular. Can't beat home grown, and next year i am going to devote an entire raised bed to them....they're growing great in troughs at the moment but i want lots and lots and lots next year so that i can make jam to keep in store and also to give as gifts and also i want to eat some fresh, of course. They are putting out loads of runners so i am putting the ends of them in small pots and waiting for them to get established and then i'll snip the runners and multiply my strawb plants. I am so enjoying this growing thing....earlier in the year i thought nothing would grow and it was all quite a lot of work, but i am now sitting back and quite literally, reaping the rewards!

pookiewn

I have a magpie nest in my elder tree, the babies are at the scruffy teenage stage - very cute! This afternoon one of them was brave enough to go on to the grass and was chasing the Cabbage whites across the garden! Was very funny to watch

Just about to have my first Charlottes too, they look lovely and so pristine! Almost can't wait for dinner...