What have you discovered today that made you smile?

Primrose

Have been reading through these posts and it's surprising how many of the "smiles" we've had are as a result of picking and eating home grown things from our gardens.
We gardeners are an easy lot to please! My husband is delighted to have such a low maintenance wife. He says I get more pleasure from watching my vegetables grow than I do from being taken out for a nice meal - and he's right, except that the nicest meals we eat tend to be things we've cooked at home. At least we know the food has wholesome origins!

kimmee

Picking my first baby courgettes made me smile today, what didn't make me smile was picking the last :eek: of my peas - they were soooooooo tasty and tender, I'm going to grow loads more next year and sow them every 2 weeks so that I have them pretty much all summer long (and that will make me smile too!)

katholicos

Here's a pic of my strawbs what we ate earlier...soooooooo tasty!

misspenny

that i'm able to sit between the row of blackberrys and the row of raspberrys and gobble afore mentioned raspberrys and oh and the little dude cant find me hahaha

ginnyknit

Dh found a huge plastic tub 'thrown away" at his cricket ground - just what I needed for the last few tomato plants. So with my half price compost and the old compost from my first bag of spuds I now have a home for them.

greytdog_2

having very friendly alloment neighbours - ive been offered straw for mulching, marigolds, herbs, strawberries, rhubarb, tomato plants, blackberries tonight and given broccoli and beetroot seedlings a few weeks ago. Lovely peeps!

hethmar

This sort of made me smile - my elderly neighbour had been complaining that "something" was eating her roses. All blooms about the same level had been chewed off. Sitting in her sun lounge with a cup of tea the other evening and blow me, a muntjac deer wandered up the garden, sorting out which blooms to eat next

EmptyPockets

My MIL and SIL came round for tea lastnight, and after we'd eaten, DH and I gave them a tour of the garden/veggie patch. I've never heard so many 'oooohs' 'aaaahs' and 'wows' in my life - they were especially impressed with the gigantic swedes, as are we of course :T

katholicos

Just been out and picked another scrumptious bowl full of strawbs...they were delicious!

kimmee

I have a lavender hedge in my front garden, it's about 20 feet long and this year is absolutely gorgeous, anyway I got home from work today and I lost count of how many bees were feasting on the lavender, there were dozens and dozens. Have taking a few cuttings for my back garden! Yet another smiley day