What Dave's Garden Has Done To Me

I posted this in another thread I frequent but thought it would be fitting to let others know about my experience. I joined last month and already this is what has happened:

Ok, just to let you know what all you are doing to me
1) started dieting with Bonjon to get ready for iris season and I am not even sure I have a good kind of irises
2) dragged out the sewing machine from the closet to make a lap quilt with Heavenscape and not sure I remember how
3) dragged out all my stored seeds and started sorting them for trades and round robins
4) tried to make buttermilk biscuits to die for because Al (?) posted the recipe
5)created another pile (cardboard, newspapers, etc) for a lasagna bed and I don't really like Italian..prefer meat and potatoes
6)dragged the treadmill and total gym into the kitchen because the biscuits cut into the diet plans
7)spent hours reading a fairy garden tale and now have kids bugging me to do one...(another pile of stuff collected)
8) had to clean my kitchen because Jaye sent some gorgeous towels and an angel that made me feel guilty about my clutter
9)dusted off my scroll saw and circular saw because Deejay9 sent me a book on simple garden crafts I know I can do
10) worried about Mekos going MIA
11)keeps wondering where Arejay keeps disappearing to
12)spent an afternoon walking in the woods with RidesRedMule
13) wondering how to create a list of home jobs people could do to raise extra money until the economy starts back up because people I now know are suffering
14) spend way more time on here than I should because I read now more than I write
15)can proudly say I know people from all over the nation who are good, honest, decent folks who I would trust to come see me anytime

that is alot for a newbie to take in for a month...geez!...

But I would not have missed it for the world
Thanks guys

So what great things has Dave's done for you?

what a beautiful thing to say about all your experiences and its the way I feel about all my friends that I have met at Daves including you jar617 your friend sissy 70 God Bless You

In addition to all of the above, I have started dabbling with making gazing globes for my yard.
I also am growing a bunch of plants now that I had never heard of before.
Neither of the two above have been 100% successful but it's fun!

...Hi, I'm Don and I'm a DG-aholic.
...Put in a pond.
...Bought a bunch of seeds and sets for a spring garden (veggie and flower).
...Perusing possible plans for a hoop house.
...Made some wonderful friends; some of whom live within a few miles of me.
...Laying out plans for creating a tropical oasis over 1/2 of my back yard.
...Way behind on other things because I can't stay away from DG.

...And all in about three weeks.

See, some addictions are not so bad!!

I too have become an addict of DG. It started innocently enough, just trying to ID some of my daylilies, then I kept going back to the site, just lurking about, taking everything in. Then I thought this is good I will become a member. Well...it wasn't too long when that just didn't satisfy me...I wanted even more...I wanted the full experience!! I am a subscriber and it's been great!!!

DG has given me a place to learn a lot, meet nice people that have interests much like my own, gardening, photography, birds, all creatures great and small and so much more. I love it!!!;>)

Margaret

JULIE Thank you for the kind words & There are many many great Members you will get to know ,
Wait till you have been here for a few years :)))) your young & can keep up better then myself .

don i also have the same problem getting other things done when there is just so much reading to do .
hang in there Julie .

your friend susie

Deejay...thank you for putting up with my learning the ropes!

Oh, and one of the great things about DG is there are plans around here somewhere to build a hoop house or cattle panel house or something like that...It seems if it takes place in our lives, it is on Dave's Garden....My hats off to the creator!

Hi all, I too am a DG-aholic.
Don and Margeret's stories sound all to familiar to me. It starts out so simply. They before ya know it, BAMM your hooked! I have began to talk about DG so much my other, non-DG friends, have began to tell me I'm obsessed. I tell them they just don't understand. It's like talking on the phone with 400,000 people all at once. How bad can that be?
Not to mention the grand wealth of knowledge this place has to offer. Is this what Eden is like? WOW

Steph

Sounds all too familiar to me too! All I did was come in from the garden at our new house and try to look up the plants & birds. Little did I know that I would spend all of my non working & gardening time at that place that has the PlantFiles, or that I would find it to be populated with the nicest people in the world ^_^

I was at several classes last year put on by the local Extension Office and kept bringing up information I had gleaned on DG and talking about the site that they asked me if I owned stock in them !!!

Welcome to all. I've only been a subscriber for two years but have learned so much and made so many friends it's absolutely amazing.

Doug

Hey everybody ... fancy meeting you all here in this wonderful garden!

I've been a subscriber for just over three years now and have met so many wonderful folks here in Dave's Garden. There are so many kind people here who freely share there knowledge about plants and so much more. This is truly a learning, sharing, caring bunch of friends!

Lin

I couldn't agree more Lin!

Hmm, I see Dave's place has gone away.

Gone away? What do you mean gone away?

Oh, I looked at the wrong thing! so sorry, it's still there.

But Dave isn't an administrator here any more.

Cheers,

Mm

well that's real good jar.

sat. night at 6 with my fork, right?

Now you can own stock! Internet Brand's symbol is INET

jar617 - I know exactly what you are feeling. And it never goes away.

My problem is that I don't get any of those things done, because I'm on DG!
But I dream a lot! LOL

I should have stayed away from the recipe forum. DH & I are now on the South Beach diet!

Amen to #15!

Ah, South Beach, I'm going back there. Got grouchy and ON PURPOSE gained back 40 lbs, it was fun, tho', eating all those cookies and fried junk and beer....

I'm not going anywhere off DG for my gardening talk fix.

See you here!

I thought I was a hosta addict when I had about 25 varieties and joined DG. Then I met a friend from an hour up the valley and we started trading hostas. And I found out that some people have several hundred varieties. Oh Dear. Dave's Garden was a WONDERFUL enabler. (I now have about 150 varieties which is about all I can fit into a city lot).

Great thread, jar!

ViolaAnn, I'm with you on that one! DG is really an enabler, isn't it?? Here's mine:

1. Started out 7 years ago just trying to find out how to plant tulip bulbs and became addicted. Now I have about 2 thousand bulbs of all kinds blooming each spring. What a joy!

2. Read the Healthy Living threads and decided to go on South Beach and now I fit into my clothes from 15 years ago! Hurray!

3. Read a few housekeeping threads and decided to clean my basement, and now I have room for my exercise stuff!

4. Was totally intimidated about starting garden plants from seed and now I grow most all of my new plants using 'Winter Sowing'. A brilliant idea!

5. Never cared very much/enough about 'the environment' until I started reading the 'Bird' and 'Butterfly' forums, and now I've become thoroughly 'Green'! And that's a good thing!

And I could go on, but you get the picture, I'm sure!

Happy gardening (and all the other 'stuff' you do thanks to DG) to all! t.

I love hostas and don't ever seem to have enough of them. But I am growing my collection all the time.

Yes, there are so many things DG has to offer and new information being added each day that every day here is an adventure in the garden. Kind of like throwing out a handful of mixed seeds and waiting to see what comes up and what blooms where... I love it!