OK not the best title I admit! Down at lottie & noted some good sized ( but not ready) outside cucumbers - brought back memories of the first one I ever grew! They had prickles! Was indeed gob smacked - couldn't grow them in Aussie so never saw a real one before & prickles were not expected!
What is everyone else's Gob Smacked moment when you started?
Westi
Always Gob Smacked!
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Dear Westi, for me it has to be when i lifted my first root of potatoes, as a boy.
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Did Sir Walter clip you round the ear for plundering his precious new vegetable? 
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eating my first ever corn on the cob freshly picked! I couldn't believe how good it tasted!
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Dear Retropants, i hope you didn't have it all to yourself, when everyone was out. 
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erm, what if I did?? 
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Ooooooo, bad girl........
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Not at all.
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Absolutely Ron! I had to make sure they were ok before I let them loose on the rest of the family! (Or maybe I just didn't want to share 
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Hi Westi,
I was gobsmacked when I caught my first trout by fly fishing when I was 10 years old with my grandfather instructing me as what to do. My grandfather ate the trout because I was too upset at killing such a wonderful creature.
I do eat farmed rainbow trout from a local fish farm now and enjoy them.
I have never ever used a fly and line again since that day.
I can see the trout in the stream every day of my life now and that is where they deserve to stay.
JB.
I was gobsmacked when I caught my first trout by fly fishing when I was 10 years old with my grandfather instructing me as what to do. My grandfather ate the trout because I was too upset at killing such a wonderful creature.
I do eat farmed rainbow trout from a local fish farm now and enjoy them.
I have never ever used a fly and line again since that day.
I can see the trout in the stream every day of my life now and that is where they deserve to stay.
JB.
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Peter, i somehow missed your past post until just now, and i'm sure i don't know what you mean.....
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I remember being totally gobsmacked by how prolific Courgettes are. The first year we had our allotment I bought five plants which looked at deaths door, for 20p, thinking I'd get at least one decent plant out of them. They all survived and I hadn't the heart to chuck them out, so I planted them all. 
Ye gods.....we were inundated with courgettes. Turned my back for two minutes and there was a marrow sized one. ...or so it seemed.
I never plant more than two these days....and I've learned to be ruthless with surplus plants. If no one wants them, they go in the compost bin!
Ye gods.....we were inundated with courgettes. Turned my back for two minutes and there was a marrow sized one. ...or so it seemed.
I never plant more than two these days....and I've learned to be ruthless with surplus plants. If no one wants them, they go in the compost bin!
Happy with my lot