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Wed, Jun 22, 11 at 0:31
| So many funny stories on here that my sides hurt! Which reminded me of one of my own. I bought 2 bags of pole beans. I had planted a total of 60 beans, mind u I have a garden w/ tomatoes,squash, carrots & pole beans. My garden is about 20x10, yeah, not a great idea, took over my whole garden & destroyed it, but of course while planting I just couldn't get all those beans in the garden (and u shouldn't waste what u bought, right?) so I planted the last 20+ beans along the side of my house along the fence line. Did I mention I live in town & ppl can see the ones next to the house? What a mess! And did I also mention I have six Bichons (dogs)? yeah, forget the ones along the fence thx to the helpful dogs barking at the neighbors & trampling them. Disgusting large 3-4 ft wide dirt & patches of grass all summer, Highly embarrassing after I've bragged to the neighbors while sweating in the sun planting all of this. Needless to say I came up w/ a brilliant idea this year....wait for it.. A Volleyball net! and TADA! This year we have the beans segregated on that net, problem solved! And even though this happend 3 summers ago & after tilling I somehow ended up w/ 1 mysterious carrot that would come back!... Oh how we all seem to over do it in the "moment of the green thumb!" |
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- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Wed, Jun 22, 11 at 19:00
| Hi Kerstin, welcome to the Garden Party. I have not had many "worst" mistakes,thank goodness. But a whole lot of learning moments and missed opportunities. We have a couple of apple trees, and early in my gardening experience, I used some of the cuttings as markers in my garden. A couple of the "sticks" took root and they budded and flowered. One was "planted" up-side-down and it still budded and flowered. I did not want apple trees directly in my veggie garden, so I pulled out all the "sticks". If that happened these days, I would have left the "sticks" in the ground as an experiment. |
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