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You've been gardening too long when...

19 years ago

The catalogue from Bogner's, a local greenhouse, arrived today. And they have Alstromeria. They also had these nice tidbits on the bottom of each page.

You know you've been gardening too long when...

You plan your family vacations around planting time.

You hold to the dubious theory that anything that doesn't kill you will make you stronger.

You visit a friend's home and start pulling his weeds.

You find your rooting hormone alongside your vitamins.

Looking at your compost pile makes you feel all warm inside.

You think the bigger the garden...the less lawn there is to mow.

Connie

Comments (8)

  • 19 years ago

    LOL, good one Connie, I believe I can relate to all of the above ;)

    Another two I would like to add,

    You've lost 10lbs because you don't have time to make supper.

    You rather spend money on plants than buy groceries.

    Sharon

  • 19 years ago

    I think most of us can relate to this motto too.

    The Gardeners Creed

    I want it.
    I want it all.
    I want it now.
    If it will not grow in my zone or is prohibitively expensive, I want it most of all.
    I am perfectly willing to forego any necessaries of life such as food for my children in order to have it.
    I recognize my horticulture dependency.
    I recognize your horticulture dependency.
    I am willing to aid and abet your dependency, as you will mine.
    This makes us infinitely happy.
    Any money saved by virtue of comparison shopping equals found money, and therefore not counted as spending.
    If everyone has it I must have it too.
    If I have planted everything I have already purchased, I must immediately buy more.

  • 19 years ago

    "The Gardeners Creed
    I want it.
    I want it all.
    I want it now.
    If it will not grow in my zone or is prohibitively expensive, I want it most of all.
    I am perfectly willing to forego any necessaries of life such as food for my children in order to have it.
    I recognize my horticulture dependency.
    I recognize your horticulture dependency.
    I am willing to aid and abet your dependency, as you will mine.
    This makes us infinitely happy.
    Any money saved by virtue of comparison shopping equals found money, and therefore not counted as spending.
    If everyone has it I must have it too.
    If I have planted everything I have already purchased, I must immediately buy more."

    This does explain the rhodo sitting in my dining room. LOL!

    Sierra :)

  • 19 years ago

    Well, i don't have rooting hormone next to the vitamins, but there's some fertilizer on the shelf below..... :>

  • 19 years ago

    Toooo funny!!(and a little scary too, because I can sooo relate)

  • 19 years ago

    I just noticed this posting, that is cute and some of it is very true. I actually do take a week off every year in late May to do planting. Everyone at work asks me if I'll be planting on my vacation.

    I don't think I've pulled weeds at a friend's home, though I did tactfully tell my sister that her hanging basket needed watering, then I volunteered to do it for her (I can't stand to see a plant drooping and suffering, well unless it's a weed, lol)

    Glen

  • 19 years ago

    I can relate to some of the comments above. Although all the plants do not have to be planted in my yard before I will buy more. If the price is right, it will come home with me. I have been known to be an enabler.

    You have been gardening too long...or have the addiction real bad when...

    You are sitting with friends for a barbeque and all you can think of is wanting to be home instead because of the work that needs to be done in your own yard whether it is the weeding of a certain flowerbed or planting of a perennial that you just bought.

    Or, you go to visit someone and in your mind you are planning your friend's landscaping for her and thinking of how nice it would look for a certain perennial you have at home to be also planted in your friend's yard.

    You go for a drive through town and you are looking at how others have taken care of their yards. You can't fully understand why some people just couldn't be bothered to even take care of the flowerbeds that are in the front of their house.

    When your DH takes over on planting and taking care of the vegetable garden because he realizes that the perennial beds are where you want to spend your time and because they are so large you need to spend your time in them.

    People come up to you or phone you and start asking your advice on perennials or plants that they are having a problem with.

    You would rather spend your summer vacation in your yard with your blooming flowers than sitting at a lakeside somewhere.

    You call up a friend and want to tell them all about the new perennial that is blooming for the first time.

    Brenda

  • 19 years ago

    I have one more to add to the list...you wake up at night from a dream where you are having a great garden gab with someone..lol..savona