Kitchen Garden Forum

Posted: **Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:03 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2014 5:05 am**

Dear Westi, for me it has to be when i lifted my first root of potatoes, as a boy.

Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:02 pm**

Did Sir Walter clip you round the ear for plundering his precious new vegetable? :twisted:

Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:55 pm**

Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2014 2:40 pm**

eating my first ever corn on the cob freshly picked! I couldn't believe how good it tasted!

Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:09 pm**

Dear Retropants, i hope you didn't have it all to yourself, when everyone was out.

Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:29 pm**

erm, what if I did?? :shock:

Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:36 pm**

Ooooooo, bad girl........

Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2014 7:56 pm**

Not at all.
Quality control.

Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2014 8:04 pm**

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 :wink:

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Posted: **Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:02 pm**

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.

Posted: **Tue Jul 08, 2014 3:40 pm**

Peter, i somehow missed your past post until just now, and i'm sure i don't know what you mean.....

Posted: **Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:30 pm**

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. :shock: