you might be a gardener if....

Ha, what a hoot! You know, it just might work.

Well, I must say that I've drug more dirt into the house than out this summer. And the dog's & kids & habby have done their share too. Add all the food dropped on the carper as fertilizer and sun in the window. I think it could work!

Well, I am thinking, why fight nature? That carpet is screaming for seeds.

You might be a gardener if you are growing plants
that belong in six zones above you and, at this time
of year, are starting to haul them to where ever a
sunny window can be found.

You might be a gardener if you can't begin to describe just what is a gardener!

Yep Lilypon, I resemble that one too. LOL! A few nights ago it got so cold I was afraid it would freeze, so DH and I were out there hauling all my brugs into the garage for the night. That is AFTER we backed his $30,000 pickup out. :) Looked like a forest in there.

Good one JoanJ-made me laugh!! Nice to see a close
neighbor-hope our dollar gets a little closer to yours-
I haven't been down to the Dakotas for awhile. So
where will you be overwintering your brugs?

Last year I overwintered them in the crawl space of our house. It worked great. They went dormant and I watered them a few times when I remembered. This spring I brought out the pots of sticks, started watering and feeding and they came back to life.

Opps, sorry to hijack the thread.

You might be a Dave's Garden gardener if you hijack a thread and find yourself being congratulated on such a good idea - - - GOOD IDEA, JOAN!!!!!!!!!

You might be a gardener if>>>> the lease car guy "tsks" each time he sees the leftover leaves & dirt hiding in your car trunk...

This has been a hoot of a thread!

True story:

You know you are gardener when a neighbor down the street who never cuts his yard (does'nt have any,) never pulls weeds (as that is all he grows,) and has this one huge bare spot next to the roadway (That he says, "One day I got to do somthing about that spot."), so one rainly night you slip up to that bare spot and seed in several thousand wild flowers. Ha ha they still re-seeding today--and that was over 3 years ago!

Now shhhh don't tell him!
Olds

DOW--You're too funny! What a great way to solve a problem instead of complaining about it!!! LOL

You know you're a gardener when you spend hours digging weeds from your downwind neighbor's yard BEFORE they blow seed all through your beds.

You know you're a gardener when you make daylight raids to gather the community leaves before the city truck picks them up.

You know you're a gardener when you can overcome your bug phobia enough to enjoy the outdoors ;D

I did the first one AND the last one today lupi! Pulling/chopping those dang 8' tall dandelions out. Might I add JUST before they bloomed...hooyah!

My goodness are the weeds crazy! All I did today was weed!!

Davena

Try 11 garbage bags full! lol

WOW! I don't feel so bad then. Just 2/3 a yardy cart--but that's pretty big. Mostly deadheading. My mulch takes care of most of the weeds...

went and bought a brush cutter because the empty lot behind me (not mine) needed a little work.Also looks like a great place for a new rose garden.

Isn't that a song? "..I didn't promise you a rose garden..."
I think I got promised weeds & never noticed it until it was 20 years down the road....

You buy a new (and bigger) garden cart and feel that it's the best possible 60th birthday present you could ever get!

You know you are when the first game of the regular NFL season is on Sunday afternoon and your favorite team (STEELERS) is battling their arch enemy (RAVENS) and you forget because you are weeding your garden all day Sunday because you finally have a dry day. You only realize at 6:00 when hubby gets home and asks "Who won the game today?" WHEW!

GRAMMAR LESSON:
Children that was a run on sentence- don't attempt this at home.

lol this is the best dang thread, if i do say so myself.!!!!!!!

hey dow oldman you crack me up, you came up with a way to brighten your neighborhood and i bet if you are the only bigtime gardener on your street, they all know who did it. but shhhhhhh anyways.........i won't tell. so what is your address? lol ;-)
dastowers, i love run on sentences, they are my favorite kind, i can go on and on and on just making commas and talking about how i love run on sentences. lol....

lupy and old, i have a next door neighbor who has a front lawn half grass and half weeds, but the backyard, since no one sees it is all and i mean all weeds.

lupy,
i can soooooooooooooo relate to the bug thing!!!!!!!!! i still freak out when they are in the house and don't even get me going on those disgusting creatures called slugs.

and.........you know your a gardener when..........you think preen was god's greatest gift to science and mankind and you'd love to meet the person who discovered it and give them a HUGE hug and kiss and perhaps even kiss there feet. ;) lol

Truthfully, my whole front yard is a mess. Lost my sister 2 years ago (younger than me,) my wife got cancer about the same time and my mother is totally driving me crazy. My dog went into a wheel chair this past January--now he is 24/7 also! Not to mention I went self-employed 2.5 years back.

So all in all the past 2.5 years has seen little of me in the yard. However, things are returning to normal. In fact I got to take out the boat 3 times this summer! None last year.

I will tell ya about 3 years back more than once someone was setting up a camera and taking pictures of my flowers...especially the wild flowers out by the roadway. It will get that way again by spring--I hope!

As of this moment we are having two sky-lights installed. A "seamless" metal roof. New windows, and siding done!

At best I get to work in my Veg and fruit garden a little

If you have not seen a pic of my dog on one of the other boards I will post it here...He is part of my gaming sig-pic!

Olds

BTW Doesn't he look just like me? Like Father Like Son!

Oldman- your dog is gorgeous! We have always had large dogs. How did he end up in a wheelchair? Who designed it for him?

Davena

god bless you oldman and your doggie. he looks just like you! except for the red hair. :)

The chair comes from (K9cart.com) Skyway is 3.5 years old. This past December a small fatty tissue broke into a blood vessel. The vessel supply blood to a nerve that allowed him to walk. That nerve died. He has total feeling in his feet/toes. He is 24/7. My office is in my home so I'm with him all of the time. In fact his is asleep on his day bed here behind my chair at this moment.

Some have asked me how I deal with his "movements." My reply is simple: I've been baptized and fertilized more than I thought a person could ever be. Morning doggie shower is how we start the day off. After that it might be just one or two more. On a bad day he has had 6-8 showers. Next Skyway owns a carpet extractor and allows me to barrow it daily! (I own a commercial carpet cleaning company.) Once per mouth I have a crew come in and we do a control burn on the carpet to remove any off coloring.

What can I say? Other than he is my boy....however I think that red hair came from my wife who is red headed LOL! Go figure. Too funny uh?
Olds

god bless you, your a good dad. :)

if...you can figure out in your head where someone lives in your state by what zone they are in.

If your special person wakes up startled, jumps out of the bed, yelling because there are bugs in the bed and they turn out to be seeds that fell out of your robe pocket.

sbarr--Ha Ha !!!!! You know you're a gardener when you ...
walk into the drugstore the clerk yells out--"Don't forget your 4 packs of flower photos". Busted, again. Seems everyone knows my addiction. I think I'll get a dark room to hide in and process my own stupoid photos!

My DH asked me what I wanted for my birthday this year and I said dirt. I want ten bags of top soil or potting soil. You have to understand, I live in the desert and you have to be a miner here to garden. Rocks, rocks everywhere. He said you want 10 bags of dirt for your birthday? I said yes but I want big bags. My mother-in-law asked me and I said I wanted a bag of compost to mix with the dirt. She said I was begining to sound like her. We gave her a shovel for Christmas. LOL It was what she wanted.

on that note...

You know you're a gardener if...

...at the present table at your wedding was a shovel and a rake with big bows on them.

:)

To get that gift you'd have to be a dedicated gardner! LOL

...and have some friends that really know you well! lol I have some good ones you can see. :)

You know you're a gardener if: your grocery store clears out their gardening leather gloves & you go digging madly thru the cart & buy them ALL--just in case.... :)

WHoo=Hooo...I am the lucky recipeint of a pair1!!


Davena

Ha Ha! I even asked if they had MORE somewhere ! I had to fight 2 little old grannies (no doubt gardeners too!) to get those gloves!!! LOL Wait, I have grey hair (needs coloring again) Maybe I AM a "Granny" & don't know it!

.....when you buy green gardening gloves just incase your green thumb isn't green enough.Hehehe

...the highlight of a trip to Las Vegas is a trip to the nurseries to check out the xeriscape plants.

If you hubby comes home to find the front room mini-blinds on the floor cut up, because you ran out of plant tags!!


Davena