OMG i grew something!

liney

I sowed some seeds from a supermarket pepper and now have a zillion little seedlings! My husband doesnt understand my excitement , so i had to share.

alanobrien

liney wrote: »

I sowed some seeds from a supermarket pepper and now have a zillion little seedlings! My husband doesnt understand my excitement , so i had to share.

Good for you, i know the feeling my tree fern decided to wake up this week and from a stump it now has four little fronds starting to uncurl. Nature is a fascinating thing.

scrimperjan

Isn't it wonderful? I have been growing stuff from seed for years and I still get excited when I see the first tiny shoots come through!

TornadoTom

alanobrien wrote: »

Good for you, i know the feeling my tree fern decided to wake up this week and from a stump it now has four little fronds starting to uncurl. Nature is a fascinating thing.

Very true !
I have been passing into wales down the A55 for around 20years regularly.
On my way back at Rhuallt, you have to come back up a steep hill and the road splits into 3 lanes to get the traffic up the hill.
Theres a field right next to the road on the left. For years, theres been a huge tree stump in the bottom of the field....and I noticed it everytime I passed.
As the years have gone by, the tree stump has rotted in the middle. About 5 years ago I noticed a small shoot apearing in the centre of the stump, probably a seed that has been dropped by a bird..... maybe.
That shoot has now grown into a small tree and has pushed away the sides of the rotton stump...most of which has now gone.
A new tree is there now....amazing !
A tree seed to be planted anywhere...great ! but, a tree seed to be planted in a tree and grows...whats the odds on that happening ?
Tom

just-saving

Loved reading everyones posts. I have been working hard in the garden making a chicken coop for the past few weeks and its been fascinating watching the garden changing before my very eyes. My Beech tree has burst into leaf, my dahlia tubers have begun appearing from the beneath the ground, there are even things popping up that I can't even remember what they were last year. Last year I planted some Morning Glory seeds against an empty wall. Today I spotted some little plantlets and after looking the leaves up on the internet I found out that they are Morning Glory which have obviously reseeded from last year. Now, I have a packet of sweetcorn. Never tried growing anything like this before but I am excited about what I may get in the end!

TornadoTom

The previous occupiers of our house used to go walking in the country. Our garden was bursting with Bluebells which they had dug up donkeys years ago. There were plenty of 'whitebells' too.....not sure if thats what there called, but they were white.
We had an extension built and I dug up a lot of the bulbs and re-planted them in the field at the end of our garden.

I have to be honest...I didnt like them...probably because we had millions of them. I got rid of thousands of bulbs from the front garden, I didnt think there were any more left.

This year, loads more bluebells have sprouted up from nowhere I'm even more baffled, because we have laid that black fabric weed supresser and covered it in chipped bark.
It seems you cant kill'em anyway !

meanmarie

True, Tom,

Bluebells are impossible to kill...my late mother loved flowers but for some reason she hated bluebells...she would be horrified to see the numbers I now have around 'her' house!

Marie