What have you discovered today that made you smile?

ratty67

There's some overgrown waste ground behind my house, covered in brambles (free blackberries) and also cherry, apple and pear trees.

Picked 4lbs of cherries this afternoon, we've eaten some with ice cream, some will be turned into apple and cherry crumbles and the rest are in the freezer :j
By next week there should be as many again ripe so they'll be cherry jam!

kimmee

ratty67 wrote: »

There's some overgrown waste ground behind my house, covered in brambles (free blackberries) and also cherry, apple and pear trees.

Picked 4lbs of cherries this afternoon, we've eaten some with ice cream, some will be turned into apple and cherry crumbles and the rest are in the freezer :j
By next week there should be as many again ripe so they'll be cherry jam!

Wow you're very lucky :T

TravellingAbuela

ratty67 wrote: »

There's some overgrown waste ground behind my house, covered in brambles (free blackberries) and also cherry, apple and pear trees.

Picked 4lbs of cherries this afternoon, we've eaten some with ice cream, some will be turned into apple and cherry crumbles and the rest are in the freezer :j
By next week there should be as many again ripe so they'll be cherry jam!

We were lucky enough to come across some pear trees growing wild last year on one of our trecks from our caravan. We filled our rucksack with them and, on coming back home again, I searched the net for ways of using them. I came up with Pear and Lemon Jam - it was delicious! You can be sure come September, when the pears are ripe, we shall be off on the same walk again! I love foraging! If only we came across cherry trees like you!

katholicos

What made me smile today was giving away the last of my spare capiscum pepper plants that i have been giving away through freegle this week :-)

Everyone has been so grateful. If anyone has any surplus plants that they don;t know what to do with or don'; have the space for, i think it might be worth thinking about giving freegle or freecycle a go...

jaxx46

Katholicos, I've done this too. After deciding to try and grow more than just tomatoes I sowed loads of different things and was overwhelmed by the germination rate, far too much for my little plot. So far i've freecycled tomatoes, courgettes, cucumbers, basil, sage, thyme, marjoram and leeks. In return i've recieved butternut squash, sprouts and a water lily. I've also met and stayed in touch with some fellow gardeners. Todays smile is a flower on one of my pumpkin plants

Jake'sGran

Since we started putting Nyger seeds in a hanger we have a pair of goldfinch enjoying them everyday. Then, a new one came. Goldfinch are so colourful but the new one only had the bright colours on it's wings. I assumed it was their baby sitting on a pine waiting to be fed. Wrong! The two regulars ignore it so I now think it is some sort of crossmatch. Is this possible?. Then, a pidgeon started doing a love dance on a fence where another one was just taking in the evening sun.This made me laugh.

wssla00

Through the pouring rain up here today my smile of the day is my teensy tiny cabbages! They look so cute!

rhosynbach

today i smiled when i saw raspberrys streawberries red and blackcurrants ready to be picked tomorrow for jam making had a bad fruit year last year so very pleased
and my 10 year old son winning the fancy dress championship on our pony at the village show even the rain could not spoil that

soul619

my raspberrys going red and my first tomatoes going slightly orange

katholicos

Big smiles today....my patty pan squash plants are going mental, as are my courgette plants....i have my first courgette growing on one of them and i will pick it tomorrow. My redcurrants are just starting to go red, there is more mangetout to eat and i picked these strawbs for the freezer as i'm saving them for making jam....



Here's a pic of my courgette...



Also, my first clematis flower on my Aldi plants i got about 2 months ago...