What have you discovered today that made you smile?

Chimera

Very first orangey red tom!!!!
Nice Plump courgette!
Cucumber about 4 inches long, wow, didn't think I'd have any luck with them
Wild flowers looking beautiful in front garden

absfabs

Had the first blueberries with my weetabix this morning, lovely!

Courgettes, cucumbers and tomatoes keeping us in salad stuff now.

Runner beans full of ladybirds, never had so many, even know what their fearsome looking grubs/larva look like now. Yes, lots of blackfly/aphids in the runnerbeans, but no way am I going to spray them now. Still got a few helpings of beans from the French beans, first time I have been growing them, and they are so much nicer than shop bought!!

Painkiller

A few discoveries from the last week or so;

A water melon hiding itself between the side of our greenhouse & a tomato plant.


Spotted a peacock butterfly on one of the Buddleias this morning - have only seen white ones in the garden up until now.


1st ripening Black Truffle Tomato.


1st Ripening Yellow Pear Tomatoes.

TheMoneySpider

I discovered that under my doormat there is the world's biggest colony of earwigs.......oh no wait, you said "smile" not "squeal like a girl"

cjb02

TheMoneySpider wrote: »

I discovered that under my doormat there is the world's biggest colony of earwigs.......oh no wait, you said "smile" not "squeal like a girl"

lol... very funny.

seeing my poached egg plants flower every time I go out of the door underneath my potted victoria plum tree with lots of plums on. awesome sight. imo.

kimmee

Over the past week or so I've been smiling as I'm getting more little cucumbers growing, have been harvesting LOADS of tomatoes daily and finally had a rummage through my potato bags and have discoved lots of potatoes, I roasted some on Sunday and they were lovely, having some of the baby ones tonight with salad.

This growing your own really makes me smile

Looking out on my garden as I type and just seeing all the flowers and plants growing and making my garden full of lovely things is starting my day off just right.

TheMoneySpider

No so much a discovery but my little oak trees I planted in pots in my garden are just ace



http://garstontowers.blogspot.com/2010/08/progress-report-my-oak-trees-grown-from.html

Primrose

Returned from a week's holiday yesterday to find that my 4 outdoor cucumber plants have produced about a dozen cucumbers and far more than we can eat. One cucumber, hidden under a large leaf had grown almost to the size of my arm and is fit for nothing except chopping up and saving the seed. The remainder of its bulk will be dug back into the soil to rot down.

Dustykitten

My sweet peas are still flowering their little hearts out. They now have greenfly but I love watching the ladybirds eat greenfly and tomorrow I shall play my favourite garden game 'Ladybird Relocation, Relocation, Relocation'. I go into the back garden hunt down hungry ladybirds and carry them to the sweetpeas for a feast.

duckeggblue

I have a garden after 5 years with non!
Today a friend told me I might be able to start growing veg this year! yay! maybe veg in the onion family!!

Just heaven being able to take a walk in the garden,and pick a few flowers for the house when I want,and take in the warm air.Lovely to watch our doggie,who is so much more-waggy- since we got a garden.

Part of the joy is "dreaming" about what we will acheive and savouring the quality of our lives now.