You guys are too funny!
worst garden mistakes
could have been seed ticks and rubbin alcohol, chuckl, might have had better luck with milk reducin the fire too, chuckle, sorry, keeps the memories agoin back...
to Wildcat ==Been there =done that
It burns and hurts bigtime. You have my sympathies.
I quit growing the little evil pretty colored hot peppers just in case I didn't learn my lesson the first time.
Never accept pepper seeds from a friend nor an enemy.
Wildcat that was 40+ years ago and to this day I wear rubber gloves for handling peppers or tongs ,really got into the tongs when I started growing Habeneros
Mine was only 15 years ago. I was old enough to know better. Remember it like it was yesterdeay. Rubbing your eyes might be less painful.
I fell into this thread and I've laughed so hard I almost cried. My life is tame compared to some of y'all.
I'm plagued by a #%&%&!! trumpet vine I planted years ago that comes up every where, and by virginia creeper, that just comes in out of the woods.
Ruella is a mess and jumps from pot to pot, so even pots aren't safe.
I had perilla in a hanging basket last year and loved it enough to take cuttings.
Here we are so hot and dry out so easily that many "invasives" can't get a grip, an we'd like some things to spread a bit.
That first red bloom, the clearly 5 separate pointy petaled one, is what I've bought as Texas star hibiscus, and I have a white one as well. The leaves have caused folks to ask if it was marijuana! They froze back last year and just made an appearance a few weeks ago. The white one got 18" tall and one scaggly stem, but has put out 3 white blooms.
Have had Texas Star for some 6 years now. It has never bloomed as profusely as it is now. Have saved and shared seeds but also used seed to plant two more places. All three are now over 7 feet tall with many stems from the root ball. The butterflies and hummers are lovin' it. Mine die to the ground every year here in the Dallas area. The stories about the similarity to pot are numerous. Enjoy.
Back to the peppers several years ago I started in to fix some pickled peppers using some Habeneros which I wore the required rubber gloves and removed all the seeds and that pulp looking stuff from the inside ..Now that is supposed to removed most of the heat WRONG WRONG WRONG..I poured the hot venegar over them and could not breathe in the house had to open all of the windows turn on every fan we owned and abandon ship till the house aired out..To add insult to injury the habeneros litterally ate the lids off the jars...
Wow!! those were some strong peppers!!!
I think a big mistake I made was planting "walking irises" given to me by a friend. Those things have walked all over my beds! The good thing is they are easy to pull up.
I tried the walking iris in the garden when I first got them and they did zip. So I potted them in hanging baskets and have shared them for several years. Maybe because I have mulch.
Well I certainly have a lot I could share!
Bring them to the Round Up in October, a lot of folks don't have them. We are checking on dates and will be posting an announcement on it soon.
Is this the one you have?
I would love some walking irises! Bobyrd, are you coming to the fall Arlington RU?
i am going to visit my sister early in october and as soon as i find out our round up date i can make the reservations--
Sheila, actually yours are much prettier than mine. Mine is all white with a little yellow in the center. I didn't see it in the plant files. Maybe it isn't a walking iris but that's what the person who gave it to me said it was.
I don't think I am going to make it to the Arlington fall roundup. But, you never know.
Bonnie
Removing old peppers and trimming them up tomorrow...I will keep this thread in mind and wash my hands!
C
Hope you make it Bonnie....not Bob. LOL! Sorry for that.
Newtons.....Guess you got some timely info there! LOL!
I transplanted some wild dewberries into a bed full of ivy that I didn't like, thinking of cobbler and that dewberry could win. Now I have been trying to clear out that bed, and have managed to get rid of most of the ivy, but the dewberries will probably come back forever.
I have some come up under my crepe myrtle ever year compliments of a Cardinal that nests there. I kept some and put it in a back corner at the end of the yard for the birds.
I just read this thread from top to bottom. Thank y'all so
much for the comic relief. This has got be one of the funniest
threads ever.