You know it was worth it when...

[teakdesk]

... your very critical, pasta-loving teenager son says...

"the liver casserole is awful but the mash is fantastic!!

can I have some more!!!!!!!!!!!"



... and again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


(desiree maincrop)



Salad tomorrow or he'll get fat!!






Anyone else "converted" someone?

[FionaH]

Was when my teenage sons refused to eat shop bought salad cos it wasnt as nice as ours

[Pumpkin Becki]

My big brother has taken up GYO in the last year because of all the things I tell him about my lottie (he lives in Southampton so doesn't get to try my produce first hand), and this year he has beaten me to chicken keeping (I'm not bitter - honest).

[zazen999]

My little brother had a vague interest in doing 'something' with their garden, as they own the bit inbetween a circle of houses on top of a mountain in S Wales....so they got IOU raised beds from us for Christmas which were installed and made by me at Easter.

Now, my SIL is well onto her way with making all sorts of wines and wants to grow loads of stuff to make jams, jellies etc etc. And they have eaten the veg from the raised beds - including the 2 nieces eating peas straight from the pod....and the eldest is little miss fussy pants so I'm chuffed about that!!!

I will still start seedlings off for them and take them down and plant them for them; mainly because it is really fun and my nieces have their own gardening kits to use...

I can't see them getting chickens, until the garden is fully sorted path wise - it can get quite treacherous in the rain - and until my mum moves in and can sort them out every day...but I suspect they might get them one day.

MY OH's daughter does eat our brocolli; I wouldn't - last year she found 2 caterpillars on them and just took them off and put them on the side of the plate; I'd never have eaten it again if that was me So it is all 100% net curtained now. I had to pretend it was a bit of stalk that just LOOKED like caterpillars - but we both know it wasn't.

[Noodles]

My notoriously salad hating, very traditional meat and 2 veg eating father who previously only liked pea and carrots is now hapily chomping his way through the influx of courgettes we've got this year and singing the praises of the tomatoes!

[ann-the-nan]

you know it was worth it when...

OH now eats beetroot after 43 years of married life of never eating any cos he didn't like it. Now, he's a convert.

[Florence Fennel]

My granddaughter Megan said "I don't like carrots, but I like Nanny's carrots" and my daughter will never buy frozen cauliflower again!

[bobleponge]

The home made tomato sauce in the fridge was chosen over the world famous brand named bottle by two teenagers!!

[oldie]

When after only two years of gardening my work colleagues call me "the gardener" and inspect my lunch box every day. One has gone out and got an allotment and appointed me as his advisor. He is from Cyprus and never grown anything before.

[pjh75]

... my parents who have a massive garden with a very large veg patch that they have not done anything with for the 20 odd years they have lived there have decided now that they are both retired to try growing their own because they have seen what I am able to produce.

The only thing is, they are expecting me to tell them how to lay it out, what to grow etc and I'm hardly an expert.

[maytreefrannie]

My two granchildren stood for a picture by the pumpkin - one held his hand by it to show how it had grown from an earlier picture, back when it was nowhere near as big as his hand. It's now about football size and his hand looked small beside it.

They were so happy to see the pumpkin had grown so much since their last visit here (about two months before).

[gojiberry]

Hi PJH, all you need to do is get your parents to join the forum then all their questions can be answered with a variety of suggestions. As for myself you know it is all worth it when you get MOM award (still can't believe it).

Ian

[COMPOST CORNER]

... my parents who have a massive garden with a very large veg patch that they have not done anything with for the 20 odd years they have lived there have decided now that they are both retired to try growing their own because they have seen what I am able to produce.

The only thing is, they are expecting me to tell them how to lay it out, what to grow etc and I'm hardly an expert.

If they live near you , you could use them to experiment with things you want to try but don't have room for.