What have you discovered today that made you smile?

soul619

i have been away since friday and have had no one to look after my garden. i have returned to find 7" dwarf beans now simmering for dinner along with 2 donzen shelled pea pods and a few carrots! my potatoes are still not ready as the tops are still growing i swear its like a jungle in the corner of my garden lol and i also have some more strawberry flowers and what seems like hundreds of blackberrys which i will be using for sloe gin but with blackberrys and vodka lol

katholicos

I discovered three mini aubergines, 1 on each of my three aubergine plants....thought they were all done for and ready be chucked on compost heap after not producing any fruit.

redsam

my irrating neighbour was blocked in by a nice neighbour ! made me smile

Annie56

Just have taken over an abandoned allotment and it is knee high with weeds, well went in ready to start clearing it and wow what a treasure trove
Runner beans, raspberry canes, blackberries,beetroot, rhubarb crowns mint parsley and somestrawberry plants, 2 compost bins, and in the shed a brush and lots of plant pots, a canvas umbrella and stand and a table 2 pario plastic chairs and under all the weeds lots of slabbed pathways....someone once loved this allotment...well so will I..just got to weed weed weed :(:(but it will be worth it.:D

redsam

Annie56 wrote: »

Just have taken over an abandoned allotment and it is knee high with weeds, well went in ready to start clearing it and wow what a treasure trove
Runner beans, raspberry canes, blackberries,beetroot, rhubarb crowns mint parsley and somestrawberry plants, 2 compost bins, and in the shed a brush and lots of plant pots, a canvas umbrella and stand and a table 2 pario plastic chairs and under all the weeds lots of slabbed pathways....someone once loved this allotment...well so will I..just got to weed weed weed :(:(but it will be worth it.:D

definately worth it!

katholicos

Annie56, gosh how brill to find all that lot on your plot! I'm sure that you will get a great deal of pleasure out of all that was left behind :-)

parsonswife8

Lovely crisp red eating apples, most have to have bits cut out and made into apple sauce cause of wasps etc, but a few really nice for eating.
:T:T:T

kimmee

Yesterday I was going to take my son to the station as he's going back to uni, I was sitting in my car on the drive waiting for him (roll eyes!!) and noticed my beautiful lavender hedge which had been battered my the rain we've had all week has perked up. It's about 20 feet long and the wind was blowing through it - it almost looked like it was doing a mexican wave!! That made me smile and I was glad that my son had kept me waiting!

Primrose

annie - sounds like you've found an edible gold mine in your allotment, even if you've got lots of weeding to do. As you say, it sounds like somebody really loved that plot and suddenly had to give it up for some reason, so it sounds as if it's in enthusiastic hands.

Orange_King

Was having a tidy up in the greenhouse yesterday and in the corner found a few pots I'd forgot about.

Weeks ago I'd taken some leaf cuttings from the pineapple lily plants and shoved them in a bit of compost. Some had really dried out but to my amazement every single one has taken root. Well chuffed.

Also, loads of cherry toms, a rude shaped potato and the start of spome sprouts by the look of it on the stems - the leaves are devastated by caterpillars but does that matter?