See or hear a storm coming and you have 250 tomato plants in small flats and 200 morning glory plants in three gallon pots, then you rush to carry all the MGs inside the house one by one, while barefooted because you were almost asleep when you heard the wind blowing.. and you do this three times in one month... finally you lose all the tomato plants but save 99 percent of the mgs from wind, hail, and more wind.
Next..
At least the MG's survived! That's what's really important. No offense to the tomato group but you can ALWAYS find tomato stands in the country. Do people really take photos of their tomatoes and post them like we do our blooms? I need to know!
lol.. Beth, yes they do.. have you heard of "Tomatoville", it is a site just for tomato people.. and go check out our own tomato forum..
But, then, we can't eat the MGs, well I guess we can..lol
DH decided to help me one day..after seeing me run in and out of the livingroom..
You know you are a morning glory addict when:
1. You have nowhere else a plant could climb and you are still looking at seeds on ebay.
2. Your answering machine says," Hello,I`m not available at this time. Please leave a message and I might call you if I ever get done watering all these pots of morning glories."
3. You have bagged up some of your good clothes to make room for your seed drawer.
4. You go to yard sales and end up nabbing seeds if they have any morning glory vines.
5. If anybody in the family needs anything between 7-10 AM they will have to get it themselves. :)
When you know darn well you don't need anymore mg seeds on sale from T&M or Parks and you buy them anyway..lol, for in case...???? you never know..
LOL Karen.
You know you're a morning glory addict when: you haven't seen the top of
your dining room table since April. Gee, I'm sorry there's no place to sit
and eat, use the sofa and the coffee table please. My table still covered in
hundreds of pkts of seeds. Getting late to start any more seeds but I might want
to. I wouldn't want to put the seeds up too early and have to dig them all out again.
LOL
Jackie
At least when we overbuy MG seeds we know they will be good for the next 40 years (if stored properly).
When you train the Master of Disaster AND his sister to walk thru the MG pots and not wag their tails..
What a good boy!
You know you're a morning glory addict when you have some growing in the bathroom and here in Japan trying to run down as many MG festivals as possible.
Just think if we could bottle that energy it might do others some good. LOL.
Dee
WHEN . . .
You buy EVERY Japanese Morning Glory Seed you see and don't have them all planted yet, and never will in the next 5-years *ha*
Emma
When you hike an hour with plantar fasciitis through old, eroded quarrying trails with heat index in upper nineties with beastly humidity to a stand of bamboo by railroad tracks near which you do NOT want to be perching when a train comes by - nothing more beautiful for MG supports than bamboo - IMHO - and when the return trip is all uphill for another hour during which your trifocals are not cooperating with your feet and your joint issues are not cooperating with your load and your dizziness issues are not cooperating with the effort -
But the trail was leafy and mossy and descended with a singing creek and who doesn't love railroad track botany and DH being my partner in this nuttiness made it a surprisingly pleasant excursion
When the first year you decide to try growing stuff from seeds, morning glories take up one full shelf of grow lights, and you only have a couple of shelves. And you move your tomato plants out to a somewhat dicey plastic greenhouse a little bit too early just to make room for the morning glories.
When you start dozens of morning glories despite the fact that growing them in your zone is somewhat touch & go because of the cool nights and short growing season.
When you keep one pet morning glory inside over the summer because it was the first to bloom and is still blooming vigorously and you can't bear to let it outside for fear of hail, wind, etc.
You know your a MGA when:
First thing in the morning you go out in your jammies to hunt for flowers, then visit Dave's MG forum
A few hours later you check to see if there are any new pictures posted
You check every web site you can google for seeds
Back to the forum for new pictures
Spend a few hours watering instead of making dinner
Check for new posts
Come home from work and look for your moonflowers
Check for new pictures
Tell husband you will be right there
Checking again for new pictures....
Get up early and go out in your jammies to look for new flowers....
Check Dave's MG forum for pictures!!! And the madness begins again....
Oh, that all sounds so familiar!
...you have an inner ear infection that causes any head movement side to side or up and down to send your world spinning, yet you climb a ladder to do traffic control on your morning glories going everywhere but where they should on your porch arbor.
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When I hit 50 varities of seed and find myself running outside in my PJs each morning to check blooms...
I am now up to just over 90 varieties...yikes.
When you have over 200 pots around the house with MGs and each one is treated like it is the most valuable pot around..lol and each conversation with everyone, even strangers at Walmart, get the benefit of your MG knowlege.. and alright, I do the Pajama thing too..
and you have to go buy some more rechargeable batteries for your camera... to take another thousand photos of the MGs.
Then, you think, why not buy a BETTER camera for better MG pictures.. and they surely must have better batteries that last longer..
lol..
