Rules of Gardening...

stormyla--your last two rules are doozies

My Lowes yesterday had not one single clearance plant to be seen. Very odd. I guess they had just filled the dumpster

Whenever you forget to cover some potting mix or close a bag of amendments/fertilizer, it will rain.

Doozie #3! Always happens!!!

stormy, I really do need to introduce myself (actually the family since gardening is a family thing for us). I simply haven't done it -- no excuses, but I can think of a few I could use. HA HA HA HA I will try to get to the Roll Call forum and take care of that this weekend. Right now we are up to our necks in planting, transplanting, doing fall bed projects, AND some garden expansions (whooo hoooo!).

I can say that, after some checking, Gitagal nailed the HD pricing on the head. Everything they get comes from independent sources. Those sources are responsible to take care of their own stock and whatever else needs to be done. Lowes, on the other hand, apparently has their own national suppliers and is responsible for the in-store stock.

Gert and I have learned so much. It is amazing the things we didn't know and our learning seems to multiply by leaps and bounds each day now. Thank you all for your many words of wisdom in past posts.

Hm-m-m-m, did I mention that Gert is my wife? LOL

When the most chores of the gradening season is upon us, you do something stupid and end up with your hand in a cast!
Were is my buddy Ric?

Yep, that's me, slipped on the wet deck steps and broke my wrist yesterday. Thank goodness it was the left and I can still type.

Chris

Lethdun, don't let that keep you from posting!! Sounds like you are a busy family. Hope to see some photos of your projects soon. Have you seen our projects threads? Here they are:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/965635/#new

Lady, Ouch!! You're doing pretty good as a one handed typist. Hope your recovery goes well. It could be worse, you might have done this in the spring. Are you going to need a cookie baking assistant???

Storm I hope to be out of this thing by baking time. I have never broken a bone before so, and no one in my family either, so this is another new adventure for me.

And to all the new names in MA, welcome, glad to have you all aboard.


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Chris, So sorry to hear about your wrist. I just stopped by the Dare Co. library to check on the plant sale at the Virginia State Arboretum in Boyce. I think we're stopping on the way home from the OBX. We stopped at RCN's open house on the way down to Fla. and Holly saw some things she wants to see about. LOL We had a really nice visit but didn't want to drag any plants around for 2 weeks, so since the sale is on the way home (sorta'), I have to pack the Explorer so there is ample plant space. Hi, I'm Ric and I'm a plantaholic! Talk to you all Monday. Ric

Ouch, ladyg!! So sorry! I hope you heal fast.

Whenever you're trying to get some plants to dry out, it will rain.

Stormila: I agree with the rain part we just had three days of it and I was supposed to finish the concrete sidewalk withmy husband help ... only four feet left to do.....but it was raining . I had to bring the plants in the rain and I did not catch a cold , amazing. Long time ago I decided to make my own rules for many gardening things and they always worked for me. I call it experimentation ....

Orchid, I know, we had that rain too. I had to tip those pots over to drain every day. Now, I'll have to let them sit outside at least another 2 to 3 days. I'm just hoping they won't need neem again.

Rules of gardening: Projects that get halted in midstream often require double the work to get restarted.

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stormy

now that's the truth!

Late, as usual...but a big ole welcome to you - Lethdun (Gert too)
Chris - please take care of that wrist...yikes!!!!
Ric - LOL - ohhhhh just talk to Bec about making space (when we were in FL) won't even discuss the swap at your place and the fish tank...LOL

Whenever you've been waiting weeks and weeks for several different large orders of plants or bulbs they will all show up on the same day.

Whenever all of your large plant orders all show up at once, it will be just as a 3 day rain is starting.

Whenever all your large plant orders arrive, you'll be away on a business trip!

Hey Tammy! Nice to "see" you. LOL Isn't that the truth!!

Every time you move a plant in the garden, that necessitates moving another, and another, and another...

And when your big fall bulb order comes , you have filled all those spots with plants over the summer, forgetting they would be for bulbs.

You folks ever hear of fruit cake bulb planting? You put so many different sizes and
types in teh ground at different levels that your soil becomes like fruitcake, filled
with all sorts of goodies. I don't recall where I heard that term first but its definitely
my style!

hey back at ya Stormyla!

Sally, that's very true. It's a good thing that bulbs don't take up very much room and foliage can be pushed out of the way to plant them.

Now the peonies that just arrived from last spring's co-op are an entirely different story.

Tammy, I know of that technique and have used it several times. It's a lot easier to dig one larger hole and makes me plant in clumps rather then scattering bulbs here and there, which is a bad habit of mine.

Rule of gardening: the deeper the hole you have to dig the more roots and rocks are in that area.

If you strap on a headlamp at 1 am and go out to pick all your green tomatoes, there will be no freeze after all that night.

lol ... do you wear your bunnie slippers w/that headlamp?

No, my bunny slippers have soft soles, so they are for indoors, although I do wear them down in the basement when tending seedlings on the light shelves.

In the garden, it's usually crocs!

The neighbors have mostly adjusted to the headlamp... no recent tales about how somebody nearly called the police, etc. Usually they figure out that an actual burglar would be closer to the house, so that light bobbing around way out back must be Jill (we all know she's nutty like that). LOL

Whenever you mix up a wheelbarrow of a special soil mix for a particular group of plants, you will always be short of soil to finish the last 1 to 3 plants!

LOL! Same goes for sterilizing a container of soil for seed starting or cuttings... I'm scraping the bottom, trying to get enough crumbs of soil mix for "just one more" pot.

Whenever you finally decide on the perfect spot to plant a new treasure, as soon as you dig, your shovel will slice through some bulbs or ephemerals!

AMEN to that--stormy!

I don't DARE to dig in my beds---anywhere--I KNOW I will be slicing through some bulbs or others.....

Whichever plants you lose the tags from will surely turn out to be the ones you want to buy more of.

If you do have the tag, odds are you've lost the receipt and don't know where you bought it, and can't find another.

Stormy, too true! I picked the most delicious green beans when we got back from NC... and while I know it's a new variety I was trying out, I managed to misplace the packet and don't know what kind it is! "Tender" something... yah, that narrows it down... LOL! I guess I'll be sifting through receipts... pretty sure I got it at Home Depot. :-)

Whatever plant you drooled over for months and finally bought for a premium price will invariably be a dissappointment.

An unwanted plant that you agree to accept from a gardening buddy will become the start of your next plant obsession.

No matter how much research you do, your bulb "partners" will never bloom at exactly the same time.

Oh that's so true Stormyla!

LOL Tammy, your photos always look like they do and I wonder how you do it!!!

The wonders of selective posting my dear. :-)

LOL Your secret's out Tammy!

Whenever you have to get a lot of leaves out of your beds, so you can plant your bulbs, it will rain every other day.

If you grow more than one cultivar of a plant, you will be able to find on demand all of them except a labeled specimen of the one you really want NOW.