I Couldn't Garden Without My DH!!!!

My poor DH took me to the nursery at 8:00 this morning after a long night of work, and getting in at 1:00am. We got mushroom compost, topsoil and pinestraw.
We planted, tilled, re- mulched, transplanted, weeded, watered, toted rocks and dirt all day. A very productive but hot day!!!
As some of you know, I am in constant pain due to an old back injury and there is NO WAY I could do this w/o him. I thank GOD for him and I thank my DH for being so good to me. The kicker is, he doesn't even like to garden, he just does it for me!!!! Now that is what I call love!!!!!!
I cooked him a big spaghetti supper tonight to show my appreciation, kisses for later!!!
To all of you who garden and do have someone to help you, please take the time to tell them how much you appreciate them!!! B/c of my DH's love, I am fulfilling my gardening dreams!! Is this sappy or what????-LOL!!! God Bless you all and your gardening helpers!!!!!

Nah - it's not sappy - you are fortunate to have someone to help you that way! I have an old back injury too. I can do some digging (but shouldn't) but hubby comes out and helps me. The time we spend together out in the yard is probably our BEST time together. We do something productive & exhilarating together. I love those days and hold them closest to my heart as the good times.

I thank God for my DH. Not only could I not garden at all, I most likely would be in assisted living now with my back problems, were it not for him!

He does everything, never complains, even though he has physical problems too!

He has always helped me and been very caring, but he didn't completely understand at first when I was up and out and more active, and just had "bad days."

But one day, after I became mostly confined to home, he found me crying in pain hanging on to the sink, trying to wash my hair. That was as far as I could get, and we had to go somewhere important the next day. He has been more than loving and understanding since, and very solicitous (sp?) of my wellbeing.

Yes, thank God for DHs!!!!!

Judith

Me too.

Add me to the list too, there is no way I'd be able to do anything without my hubby. :-) He tills, he plants, he weeds, he makes beds... he enjoys the flowers too, and some of the best times we have are in the summer when we walk around and look at all the plants.... we've been doing that since we got married and started planting.

Anything I've ever wanted, or wanted to do, he's supported me 110% I do appreciate him, and I tell him, and I thank him often. :-)

Melissa

My DH isn't as physically capable as I am most of the time but he is understanding about me not being in the house most of the time in the growing season. He does the best he can but most of the time he is confined to the house by pain and disabilities. We have now come to depend on our son who lives across the pasture a way to help with anything heavy. Digging gives me sciatica so I don't do any more of that than I absolutely have to. I'm getting our teenage grandson to come help me move bulbs and daylilies this spring. I just hate to be so dependent but age and fibro have made me change many ways I do things. I'm so glad others have DHs to help with work they can't do.

Back hurts too much to sleep tonight so I thought I'd brag a bit more on my wonderful DH.
I could NOT garden w/o him!!

A few weeks ago he helped me pot-up several tomato plants that were soo leggy.
Last week, he planted a new rose for me [7 sisters] and cleaned and re-mulched around all the others.
Today, he tilled a small area for me to plant annuals. The 'bed' is a patio door frame that we didn't use last year. DH got it free at his previous work. It looks really good on the ground, I think! He also helped me plant a few things. He is REALLY useful at toting heavy things for me since I have a bad back.

Anyone else wanna brag on that person in your life [spouse, child, friend, etc..] that makes your gardening experience so much easier?

Awww, what a neat thread! Howie and I both have physical problems, but Howie's are the most severe. He broke his back in a fall at work, fall 1994. In 1996, he had back surgery, but still has a lot of pain. He does SO much around here, though, still - I couldn't do it by myself, that's for sure! What's neat is, while he has trouble standing to work, he can weed like a trooper by laying down on the ground. I have a lot of trouble if I try to work on my knees or sitting for long, but I can do stuff while walking and bending. We compensate for each other that way. :)

I thank God for my loving husband every day. Three years ago I broke my ankle when I tripped over my little dog (Scooter - since passed). Surgery with 7 pins and a plate - 8 days in the hospital - 3 months in a cast up to my thigh AND 3 months in a wheelchair! He was there for me both physically and mentally every day. THEN if that wasn't enough in June of 2003 - just one week after my 40th birthday - I went in for triple by-pass heart surgery! I have never been so scared in my life. My husband was my rock. He never showed fear and was with me 24/7. He even stayed home for 8 weeks to care for me. He did EVERYTHING! And by that I mean washing me and dressing my incision (which took longer to heal due to complications with the staples) and all the housework and even the gardening. He gave me one of those 6ft. vinyl tomato stakes and told me to point to all the weeds that needed pulling and he took care of it! My sweet baby. He's a good man and I love him for it.

I'm sure it goes without saying since each of you already know what a good SO you already have in your life. HOw about doing something special for that person to tell him/her thank you? Before getting married, a very good friend of mine (whom was like my mother), once told me that the best advice she always gave new brides (she was a wedding consultant) was to not take their spouse for granted. For example, most people in our lives know that we love them but its good to tell them and even show our love & appreciation by doing something special for them once in a while to show them that we love them & think about them. My dear friend/mom passed away several years ago & I still think of her great advice. HTH's,

Gemila

Thank god to have him to be my husband when we need help that always be there to help eachother no matter what no problem at all and he said "I am lucky to have his loving wife". I feel good about it. He is so good to me!

I too feel truly blessed to have such love in my life..... 24 yrs and going strong. :-)

D is for Darling at my house, too.

He trenched for the dripline (let me dig out the loose dit, though!) and installed all the PVC. That was a task I was totally dreading. We've got miles and miles and miles of dripline now, lol!

That's it, though. Gardening isn't his cup of tea. He just humors me - which may even be better than all that dripline!. :)

I too have a wonderful husband, who gardens with me. In fact, he thinks of the garden as being mine, but truthfully, he's done most of the actual planting. When I got interested in plants last year, he was, and still is, my biggest encourager.

I had 15 tons of topsoil delivered last week and planned on moving it one wheelbarrow at a time all by myself. DH got home, hopped on the bobcat, and moved it ALL for me - didn't finish till after dark while it was snowing. He also filled in the holes left by the ponds we just removed, and excavated a big boulder that was 1/2 buried. God Bless him! (I didn't even ask him to help!)
He knows absolutely zilch about gardening, though. I have a huge Salvia growing right in the middle of where all this work was going on and he would hop down and gingerly work around it by hand - he was afraid if it got damaged I'd raise heck. It was so sweet watching him I didn't have the heart to tell him that particular plant grows new stuff every year so all the branches he was trying so hard to protect were going to get cut down anyway!

As a man I must say " TO HAVE WONDERFUL HUSBANDS -- YOU MUST BE VERY,VERY WONDERFUL WIVES ." They are very fortunate guys and I envy them.

What a wonderful thread....from the gals...and the GUYS!!

My DH was the gardener....and needless to say he is missed very much. He could grow about anything. Me? I have been trying...and am gaining on knowledge....thanks to so many here at DG! Jo

I am delighted to add my thanks to my DH for all he has done around the house and in the gardens. We moved here in the spring of 2002 and then I promptly hurt my knee and couldn't do much of anything for the next 2 years. Then, I had knee replacement surgery March 8 and am now recovering from that.

My precious DH - Thomas - has done EVERYTHING around here, cleaning house, taking care of our 5 kitty fur kids, even trying to make some meals, and we would surely be in a mess without him. He is my rock and my laughter and we love working outside together!! I can't wait for this knee to get healed up more so we can work outside together in our gardens. The neighbors are going to be cutting down the huge pines that make our back yard shady ... so we will have full sun soon and be able to put in raised veggie beds and grow lots more cutting flowers. I'm so excited... but I couldn't do anything without him.

He's my greatest blessing.