Confess the stupid gardening mistakes you keep making

seeing a plant at the nursery and thinking how cool it looks and then buying it only to come home and realize I already have it growing in the garden.

lack of an r drastically changes things, doesn't it? ;)

LOL, I didn't notice the absence of the r at first, then I kept seeing it as "I toss it on the ground and it spays me" !

Yes, the lack of the "r" does change things!

Alene Yan

Gives you an oriental flavor to your persona Pirl.

We got along fine without an "r" when I was growing up in Korea, and before you remind me that there is an "r" in Korea, I must tell you that's not the Korean name for Korea.

Now I'm curious. What is the Korean name for Korea ?

Hanguk in the south and Choson in the north. There's no "R" in the language, just like there's no "L" in Japanese.

I didn't know there was no L in Japanese Zuzu. I have last year and this, tried to obtain more Japanese irises from Japanese breeders, and trying to remember their names, has been especially hard for me.

BAKURA NO SENO
CHIYO NO HARU
HAREMA NO HIBIKI
KOSHUI NO ASA

And many more. I'm going to be listing them on my website, and I'm trying to get the English translations for all of them, as people seem to like to know what the names mean. Some of the translations are beautiful.

And you're right, not an L in them.


I often throw the hose down and get sprayed with it Louise. I'm always soaking wet when I'm in the garden. So you get wet, then play in the dirt, and get muddy. I generally hose my whole self off before coming inside.

I always bring a towel out with me. Either the hose gets me or the sweat.

Speaking of towels, I have found my favorite garden kneeler is an old bath towel folded twice.

That's a great idea.

We're in sand, so kneeling doesn't bother me a bit. Nor does sitting or laying. My husband does most of his weeding laying down. One time I thought something happened to him, and ran out and he was asleep in front of the bed he was weeding. He can sleep any where. He doesn't like to go into the beds, so he weeds from the front or back.

I just washed my old pink heavy duty gardening bath towel. Amazing what a little bleach can do! It's my favorite as well, Louise.

I'll have to try Mr. Polly's method of weeding!

Polly, that cracks me up about your hubby asleep in the yard!

I oops ALOT. One of my stupider oops was planting a flipflop. Darn thing didn't grow either.

Not even gonna ask how!

Why is it that men seem to be able to fall asleep anytime, anywhere??

planted a flipflop? Was it during the sixties? ;)

Tee hee venu. Nope. 2 years ago. Found out when I dug it up last summer to determine why it didn't grow. It happened during a fall planting frenzy; that's my only defense.

That's a good defense, I think we've all been there, maybe not planting a flipflop, but maybe worse :)

If you can figure out how men can go to sleep like that, let me know, Louise. We go to bed, and Russ is snoring in less than a minute, truly. I'm awake for up to an hour, usually.

It may be because they are not worried about anything. But I'm not much of a worrier, either.

Polly, my DH does the same thing, I finally resorted to ear plugs about 3 months ago. I can still hear him but it's muffled and I sleep through the night now.

Same thing in my house Polly. I wish I had that ability to fall asleep on a dime. Or at least fall asleep when one needs to. I'm very jealous of people that can go to sleep! Sounds stupid doesn't it, but true. What is the secret of sleep?? There is one thing that helps me sleep but I don't want to do that either. Sugar. Immediate downward spiral. Maybe that's why dessert was invented

Sue, his snoring doesn't bother me at all. It's not too loud, and doesn't last long. I actually enjoy hearing it. I guess after 39 years you get used to anything.

Nope, I just can't get to sleep. No idea the reason.

But Sue, it's not the snoring, Jack doesn't snore, I just can't figure how he can fall asleep in less than a minute or two. I toss and turn etc.

I am positive that I fall asleep within two minutes when I go to bed.
Yes, us guys can pretty much sleep anywhere...with NO problem. LOL

We had a lattice work lanai when I was growing up and I would fall asleep in there during the summer quite often...then I would have this lattice work tan.

Ha! That would be a sight!

Oh my! I have to use earplugs and a sound machine with white noise to mask the snoring! And I can still hear him. My hubby can fall asleep within a minute of his head hitting the pillow, too. He also can sleep in a car, plane, train - wherever! I hate when he falls asleep before I do because it takes forever for the noise to stop long enough for me to do the same.

So you had a checkerboard tan? serves you right for falling asleep.........lol

Yes, and I had to have my high school graduation picture taken over.
The kids in charge of the year book said I should just leave it because it was "unique".

My husband sleeps in cars, planes whatever, too Mamasita. I hate it when I'm driving, and he's out before we leave the driveway. When he's driving, I'm sitting there white knuckled.

I'm exactly the same, Polly.

Women worry way too much about things they can't control. I think men have a interior shut-off button that kicks in when we become horizontal. It makes life a lot easier !

My husband keeps telling me that too, JD. But I don't think I'm worrying, I'm just not sleeping.

Mike, are you saying that women can't control things? We're powerless in this man's society?? We should just go to sleep because we can't change anything anyway??? Lol..I'm kidding, but can someone find me a sleeping pill. No, really, seriously

Try liquor !

I'm trying that now Mike, it's just excaberating the situation. Did I spell that correctly? I made a typo error on another thread that added a whole new dimension to life as we know it.

Liquor does tend to add several new "dimensions" to lots of things. lol
As long as you aren't "excaberating" in public you should be ok !

Close enough, Louise. All of us do typos. Some are funnier than others, it's true.

When my husband says that he's talking about worrying about things we really can't control, like if it's going to snow tomorrow. But he doesn't worry about anything. It's a man vs woman thing.

I never excaberate in public, that is a no no. How is that word spelled anyway?? There was a time when a bunch of us were going to a Bruce Springsteen concert and we stopped to alleviate our bladders, never mind, that is not even close to excavbera;ktj;ajth. Oh no , my spelling is getting worse :(

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus...just like the book says !

Another couple more of those night time drinks will help, Louise. I sweeer.

Exacerbate. It almost sounds non printable.