Three Things...Gratitude Thread

[WLWildlife]

Fun responses!

 

[citruscurtis]

Fun responses!

Fun visuals!!!

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Hope this one works

 

[PollyannaMom]

Great responses yesterday, everyone!!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Happy:

Today's Topic (Tues, 4/14) - 3 things you're grateful about your own garden (if you have one), nearby public gardens, or nature in general

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Back when I had a garden
Tomatoes
Squash
Cucumbers
Pumpkins
We used to make tomato sauce and can it
We made pickles jars and jars and jars and jars and jars of pickles they were so good it was such a pain to make those pickles but my goodness they were so good
Every year we would try a new recipe that would make the tried and true and then we would make a batch a new recipe cause we didn’t make just one kind of pickle we’d make all kinds of pickles because it wasn’t just us it was us and our neighbor that also included the tomatoes because of both of us had gardens big gardens

And it was always fun to watch the pumpkins grow from tiny seeds into pumpkins and to see if we were gonna get a decent pumpkin

Oh the great excitement to get the first tomato and have that first tomato sandwich nothing better than homegrown tomatoes but I’ll never forget days and days at the end of summer canning tomatoes and making pickles

 

[PollyannaMom]

I used to have a garden in my old house, but life got busy after moving here with a (then) toddler, and we skipped it for several years. Now I often do tomatoes in buckets on the back deck. (I've never tried canning, though. - We mostly use them in salads.) I have a small flower garden in front, and DH just noticed when he left for the gym this morning that the first daffodil had opened!

I'm grateful for:

• Flowers this morning
• Local farm stands
• My neighbors' large garden when I was a kid - They were a very patient older couple, and always let the neighbor kids help when we wanted to.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

Pollinators
Fresh picked still warm from the sun tomatoes on white bread with Duke's mayo, salt & pepper
Blackberries

 

[slo]

Happy Tuesday Friends!

I have such wonderful memories of my gardening days. We grassed over my garden in 2019 due to DD22’s softball schedule - I no longer had time to take care of it like I should. It turned into a chore and it was never meant to be something I dreaded to do. Some days I miss it, but not enough to make another garden.

#1 - The raised garden my DH made for me -
He made it and I planted everything. It really was a wonderful garden.



#2 - My giant pickle - this was tucked away where I didn’t find it for a long time, which resulted in it getting really big. This was a fun find



#3 - My giant zucchini - This was like the above pickle. It was tucked away where I didn’t find it until it was ginormous. It honestly wasn’t very good lots and lots of seeds. My DD22 was only 12 in this picture. Seems like yesterday.

 

[bobbiwoz]

I have always loved to garden, and happily knowing our sons share this love and do have home gardens!

Going to Dollywood when they have the Harvest and Gospel festival, and have giant pumpkins on display.


I hope to get to Epcots Flower and garden festival in May.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

I also enjoyed all of yesterday's responses, thanks friends

Evergreen
Flowers

Dad and I God-willing would enjoy visiting a local flower garden one day.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Mini yellow tomatoes- we had a garden for a while in our last house. One of the best things we had growing were these interestingly shaped mini yellow tomatoes. My girls loved taking them in their lunch.

Basil- that same garden had basil go to seed and we were overrun with it. We had more pesto and basil topped dishes for years.

AeroGarden- while it wasn’t a forever thing, I had one of those tabletop hydroponic garden systems for a while. Not everything grew each time I started it up, the most dominant plants took over, and the filtration eventually went wonky but it was neat having it growing on the counter and watching its progress.

 

[clappyclaps]

Afternoon all,

Being totally honest, I love nature and greenery but I hate gardening. I'm not green fingered in the slightest!

1. Having a garden/green space - while I hate having to maintain it, I do appreciate having a bit of greenery and a garden that's my own private space. My gardens aren't big at all but I still appreciate the green all the same.

2. Garden centres - I have fond memories of visiting garden centres with my grandparents as a child, mostly because they involved a visit to the cafe and a piece of cake but to this day I still love going to garden centres for that reason!

3. Bees - I love bees and love the fact that I have a bush and some flowers in my gardens that the bees absolutely adore, and I really enjoy hearing them buzzing about through the summer.