you might be a gardener if....

No cabin fever here but I sure do hate SOCKS. I like dirt between my toes. My DH has given up all hope of civilizing me.

frogsrus - Wonderful 'sediment' !! :)

i hate socks too but massachusetts in the winter is no place without socks. socks are MUCH better than shoes. i enjoy the barefoot "thang" and i did it all the time up until the slugs overtook my woodland garden. and let me tell you: the only thing worse than shoes in the garden is........ slug slime between your toes. AAAAAAHHHHHHH ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh UGH!!!!!!!

You know you're a gardener when your husband says it's not the cost of vacation we can't afford but the cost of implementing all the plans you make after being inspired by the gardens you visited on vacation.

You know you're a gardener if you go to a public park and spend some time sitting and pulling weeds ;D Yep, I did this afternoon at Whetstone Park. Windsurffer and rosiesplace just grinned at me.

You know you are a gardener when

....your best friend calls you Hosta Woman

....you go to walmart to buy toilet paper because you are totally out and you find all the garden stuff on year end clearance and leave walmart with over $50.00 of garden clearance and no toilet paper

....you're up to your eyes in bills and don't think twice about spending big money in a co-op

....you pass trees in other people's yards and think what a shameful waste of good shade for hosta

....you get up in the morning and turn on the computer to get DG on-line before you switch on the coffee pot

;~D

LimeyLisa Kay

PS I just found this thread and LOVE it! Thanks all for the laughs!

You're a gardener if...tears come to your eyes when the weatherman announces an impending hard frost.

And I leave to Linda one troybuilt and the Mantis half the hand tools and the warm green house.

And to Ernie my oldest son I leave one troybuilt the seven wheeled cultivators and the hoophouse.

And my other two kids I leave money because there is just no sense leaving you two anything resembling garden stuff because without the farmers of America you will starve without money. tiller, Ernie

You know you're a gardener when you can't resist the sign that says " All Flower Bulbs 1/2 OFF!" You're out there in high heels and a business suit digging holes because rain/snow is forecast for the next three days and it's getting dark...Hmmm...wonder what it would cost to put some lights in the backyard?? Maybe not a good idea... I can picture myself out there in PJ's and bunny slippers...

Ernie - Who gets your grandfather's clock?

Bird

Bird I gotta be careful what I say wow talk about having to be on the look out in the mccarthy era don't know if I spelled that right but I bet you got it. I bet you got it last time as well.

A grandfathers clock in the same house as my boys I don't think so.Regards Ernie

You know you're a gardener when... you drive 65 miles to your business partner's newest rental to clean out any old perennials growing there.

You know you are a gardener when friends come to the door after being there for 45 min. walking in your garden.

Thought you guys would enjoy this:
Dr. Chlorophyll, or, Help for the Horticulturally Harassed
By Chris Woods, from Green Prints “The Weeder’s Digest”
entitled ‘The Obsessed Gardener’

Normal gardener: You won’t leave town when your tulips are in bloom
Obsessed gardener: …Or the daffodils, lilacs, wisteria, roses, clematis, lilies, asters…

NG: You have a charge account at the local garden center
OG: Your spouse buys all your Christmas presents there

NG: You invest in fine gardening tools
OG: You keep spares in your car for gardening emergencies

NG: You value all things great and small
OG: You cheered when Bambi’s mother died

NG: You have a compost heap
OG: You take its temperature every day

NG: You know the Latin names of all your plants
OG: You use them in conversation with the plants

NG: You love to grow and cook your own vegetables
OG: Cook?? Who has time to cook?

NG: You are proud of your baby carrots
OG: You carry pictures of them in your wallet

NG: You can crush a Japanese beetle with your bare fingertips
OG: You love the sound it makes when you do

NG: You would never kill a ladybug
OG: You bring them inside for the winter

NG: You have dirt under your fingernails
OG: What fingernails??

NG: You buy well-composted cow manure to top-dress your garden
OG: You buy a cow

NG: You teach your children the wonders of gardening
OG: Children? Who has time for children??

NG: You love gardening more than anything
OG: “And what’s wrong with that?”

jkom--Sounds pretty "normal" to me! LOL

Who would rejoice over Bambi's mother's death???=((

Sorry ,but I do not 'celebrate' over the death of any living,breathing,feeling creature.



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a gardener whose flowers, vegetables and bushes are all eaten by bambi's mothers cousin three times removed on there fathers side. :-)

I went to visit a friend's garden. She has over 100 clumps of daylilies and only saw a half dozen blooms this summer despite a fence, netting sprays & wahtever else she could try. I suggested leaving her dogs out all the time in the fenced yard, but they're greyhounds & will jump the fence to give chase to anything running. Her hostas rarely get past 2-4 inches high & her mums have big bite marks in the mounds. Bambi can be a bit of a problem for some people.
The police counted over 1000 deer in our city limits. Some roads are hazardous to both cars & deer each twilight. It's more than a gardeners problem here.

as the saying goes,

You know if yer a gardner if ...........

Yer out in the garden around midnight looking around with a flashlight when some local deputy dawgs come up behind you and demand you raise your hands and turn around.
Scared the bejeebers outta me.

True story !

They were looking for someone that had jumped out of a squad on the way to the "Cop-Shop" which is across the road and 3 driveways down.

Kinda neat watching them search all my outbuildings and barns tho.

I tell ya, I if didn't have my dogs and some firearms in the house ,I would have spent that night at a local motel.

When you take all your tools to the car dealer to pick out the new car-if the tools won't fit, I don't want the car! The dealer just stared at me in horror, but the tools fit and I love the car!

When your idea of a hot date is crusing the mini tractor lots and dream of owning one with all the toys.

sylvi & ernie, Sounds perfectly normal to me ;~P

ha I got my dream I married the daughter of a man of many tractors and many acres. He is retired years ago but the tractors stayed in the family just used a nice one yesterday lol a 55 horse John Deere with loader and box blade. Just the thing for yard projects. Ernie

oh ernie *drools*

LOL Sylvi, that is so true!! I always have tools and fertilizer in the trunk of my car. Was it made for anything else?

It is a four passenger car, but I have to spend half an hour cleaning it out every time I want to put any people or dogs in it!

You must be my twin! I have a very nice luxury car that usually only has one seat available (mine). My husband gets disgusted with me about it but at least the outside always looks good. :-) Oh, and it usually is cleaned out in the winter.

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Hubby is always yelling "where are the car keys? I need a {insert tool of choice}!"

You know you are a gardner if you have fish for dinner and can't wait to bury the remains in your garden!

Good one, hmstyl!! Do you really bury the remains in your garden? Doesn't it attract the neighborhood cats? LOL

Yep, sure do. Also, when we get whole fish I throw all the guts and bones and stuff in a bucket and then dig a whole out in the veggie garden and plop them in it. I usually just stick the shovel in about about a foot deep and lift out one scoop, throw the stuff in the whole and cover it up. I have a hodge -podge of buried fish all over out there. They break down quickly, and when I run the tiller I never see any of those lil buried treasures. If you bury it deep enough and quickly before the smell notifies all the critters, they will never know it is there.

Hmsty lol I have two golden reterviers that find things buried way deep I really hesitate to bury it in my yard because decomp fish is very poisionious to dogs and can kill them in a flash if not treated quickly. Yes I know people dry fish by the ton to feed sled dogs with but that fish is air dried and hung for days untill fully dehydrated. I even suspision that dogs that eat lots of fish are less suseptable because they build a natural immunity. Wolves fox and coyotes surley eat several pounds of decomp fish that has washed ashore after spawing. Ernie

it's greaat to see this thread up and running again. ;)

This ? isn't about fish guts--
but--if I put coffee grounds
& tea leaves in the compost;
should I take the tea out of
the bags, or just throw the
whole thing in?

I'll be using the compost right
away--or as soon as the rain
stops for more than1 day!!

I throw the whole tea bag in the compost with the string and tag. I also throw the used coffee filters in with the grounds in my compost pile. That just saves me time and mess not to have to separate stuff and the paper dissentegrates (sp?) pretty quick. My compost also gets a lot of chicken poop and turkey poop from cleaning out the coops so my compost pile works fast. Still, I like to bury the fish directly in the dirt and not have it above ground in the compost pile.

Well, I don't have any chicken or
turkey poo to help things along--
Lots of dog poo tho'!! I don't
suppose that would work, would
it??!!

Speaking of poo--do people
keep cats out of their beds cuz
the cats dig things up, or cuz
what the cat leaves behind will
hurt the plants?

Also, you know you might be a
gardner if:

You're seriously thinking of buying
a shirt that says "Plays in the Dirt".

I saw that shirt! I want one, but it is kind of expensive since it will just get dirty anyway. . .

Yeah, I thought the same things.

I wondered why they don't make
it darker; say in a dark green or
a nice dirt brown--then I might be
tempted--Like when my DH says
"What would you like, I want to get
you something."!!

Also, you might be a gardner if:

Your Home Page is:

Your Home Page at DG.

You're a gardener if : you look at 14 inches of snow as great winter cover for your garden!