Little Things Please Little Mind!

[cilla]

It does not take much to get me excited! I have planted for the first time peas and this morning I was saying good morning to my plants and found a pea pod. Yesterday it was a flower and today a pod. You can imagine my excitement I dragged my husband to see it and then my good friend who is my neighbor to come and see it. Told you little things please little minds!

[Nannysally99]

How lovely Cilla, hope you've got lots of them. Mine never made it to the stove last year, they were so nice raw

[Lumpy]

Cilla - I've got the teenyist mind on here and I get excited by my beetroot, that I know won't form a 'beet' but has managed to grow loads of leaves.

[mothhawk]

Lovely, Cilla.

I get excited in just the same way. Nature is magic

[happyhumph]

We all get excited like that Cilla, it's one of the reasons we grow our own. I was really excited about my first tiny crop of turnip greens recently, enough for about one mouthful each! On the pea front I have grown them for many years & only once have any made it as far as the kitchen - far to sweet & tasty straight from the plant

[SaraJH]

I'm exactly the same Cilla, only yesterday I ran in to get hubby to check out our first courgette that is 1 inch long! And like you, I took a photo of it

One of the best things about growing your own is the daily inspection to marvel at what has happened in the last 24 hours. In fact I probably do that inspection about a dozen times a day lol.

[craftymarie]

You're definitely not alone in this, Cilla. I took loads of photos of my first pea pod and first everything else that grows

Unfortunately hubby doesn't share my excitement which is why I like coming here with likeminded people

[SusieG]

It's fantastic! Lovely - I was dead chuffed with my broad beans, like you cilla, one moment it was a flower then I looked next day and it was a big, hefty bean pod .....
Dragged in DH and young son to GH, who quietly shuffled away as I was proudly waffling-on about the marvel of beans, talking to tomato plants and proudly ruffling my chilli plant leaves ......

Glad you all understand the passion .....!

[cilla]

I am so glad I have not that small a mind! I soooooo agree with you Sara JH. Love it that you all do the same. Love going out to see how everything is growing and love it when they have changed. Hubby called me Prince Charles for talking to the plants!! I think he needs his glasses to see I have different parts to men!!!!!!

[happyhumph]

I have also been called Prince Charles. I just tell oh that in a gh it does help by providing extra co2 & mimicking the wind which helps produce a stronger plant!

[SusieG]

Ha! Brilliant happyhumph! I'll have to remember that one .... . Just doing our bit for conservation ........

[happyhumph]

Please use it SusieG but be prepared for "hot air" accusations to come your way

[Cadalot]

Guilty as charged, and I named the first ever cucumber that I grew. His name was Wally. Do I qualify for the nutters club for that one?

[Nicos]

I get excited just going to check to see what has germinated!:P

My great passion at the moment is waiting for the parsnips to appear....I was so determined I'd get a decent crop that I vastly overcrowded a couple of rows....will they...won't they?...Tis the first part of the potager I go to visit every day
Today is day 17 of this joy....yup...I started checking on day 1 ( well...ya never know do you! )

I know exactly what you mean cilla!....I particularly love seeing the first baby French beans...tiny, perfectly formed and already edible .

[Guest]

I am just as guilty of getting excited over seeds, flowers, fruit. I don't tend to talk to plants that much but I do talk to insects and animals. They must have thought I was bonkers on my bee course when it was my turn to open a hive, I talked to the bees non-stop