What have you discovered today that made you smile?

katholicos

Another thing that has given me some pleasure is setting up a Youtube channel with videos of my veg growing endeavours. Can;t put the link here because i think there is a rule against it, but you can access my blog by clicking on my name and then there is a link to the youtube page on my blog. It's kind of embarrassing mentioing it here as originally i just did it for a bit of fun and to show my family and friends how i'm getting on, but i wonder if some you my good buddies on here might find it encouraging or useful in any way.

Kay_Peel

Last year I grew the biennial Teasel from seed.

It's a plant that is loved by finches and I had never seen any in my garden. This morning there were two greenfinches on the fence and two goldfinches on the hawthorn hedge, eyeing the flowers. They'll have to wait a few more weeks before the seeds are ready for eating and I hope they leave me some to sow again!

TravellingAbuela

Today's smile - I planted some sweet peas for the first time this year and this morning I have one flower in bloom! Lots more buds still to open.

Today's frown - sowed some more salad leaf seeds last week and yesterday they were just tiny little plants. Today they have gone - darned slugs! Will sow some more and put the trays where they can't get at them!

kimmee

katholicos wrote: »

Another thing that has given me some pleasure is setting up a Youtube channel with videos of my veg growing endeavours. Can;t put the link here because i think there is a rule against it, but you can access my blog by clicking on my name and then there is a link to the youtube page on my blog. It's kind of embarrassing mentioing it here as originally i just did it for a bit of fun and to show my family and friends how i'm getting on, but i wonder if some you my good buddies on here might find it encouraging or useful in any way.

I'm so impressed by your garden katholicos, I really enjoyed watching your video & your little dog is sooooooooo cute

Was also very interested in your potatoes as I cut all my foliage down yesterday as, like yours, it was flopping all over the place - I'm going on holiday for 2 & 1/2 weeks and thought I would harvest my pots when I came back (don't really have time to do it before I go) but if the foliage starts growing again will I need to ask DS to water the grow bags that have to pots in? I was going to tell him to not do anything with them.

Anyway, thanks for sharing and well done :T (and from someone very untechnically minded I'm impressed that you put a video on YouTube!!!)

Primrose

Walking round the edges of a large pond where the mud on the perimeter was drying out through water evaporation. When I looked down at it closely it was alive with tiny froglets, none of them bigger than the size of a fingernail, all starting on their migration from the pond into the nearby undergrowth. A rare and amazing sight.

ratty67

TravellingAbuela - do you have the recipe for the pear and lemon jam? I'd love to make some

Today's smile... new potatoes and peas fresh from the garden on our Sunday dinner.

Also...those cherry trees I mentioned. They're literally right behind our fence. There was a blackbird sat on a top branch this morning, eating cherries and minding it's own business. It didn't see Mr Sparrowhawk. Mr Sparrowhawk brought the blackbird on our garden to ermmmmmmmm finish it off :eek:

I love birds of prey. We have kestrels, red kites, peregrines and the sparrowhawk round here but that was the first time I've witnessed a live kill!

jaxxy00

Ive now got flowers on my sweet peas (my first time of growing them) and also discovered ive got plenty of tomatoes on my plants.

Biggest smile of all came though when we realised that little jenny wren now has babies and we can hear them chirping away Soooo cute

zarazara

The first lot of hay is in the shed,the gardens looking good.A walk in the forest this afternoon. Cool and atmospheric.

Money_maker

Todays smiles: Watching my 2yo DD help me pod peas we had just picked, gathering in soft fruit in our trug, a few spots of rain - promise of more to come tonight (hopefully).

Frowns : when I realise the birds have finally found the jostaberry plant - fortunately I did a picking yesterday but gutted cos there was still plenty of fruit on it. Still cross with idiot seen hosing the grass verge (council owned) last thursday evening - we haven't had rain for weeks and must be close to a ban soon. Hosing the verge - what a pillock!

Money_maker

kimmee wrote: »

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

Just had to add that its been a superb year for lavender. Everywhere I go the lavender is shining out so bright - even in Tescos carpark. Beautiful.