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    What Is the Daftest.....

    Thing you've done in the garden this year, something that would have been soooo embarrassing that the rest of the grapes would have had a good giggle at.

    Me

    I planted a few onion seeds in some buckets that happily sprouted little green bits which, after a few days of hammering down with rain, you couldn't see cause the buckets were full of water - I hadn't put in any holes
    Hayley B

    John Wayne's daughter, Marisa Wayne, will be competing with my Other Half, in the Macmillan 4x4 Challenge (in its 10th year) in March 2011, all sponsorship money goes to Macmillan Cancer Support, please sponsor them at http://www.justgiving.com/Mac4x4TeamDuke'

    An Egg is for breakfast, a chook is for life
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  • #2
    Planting all my french beans in near total shade must quite high on the daft list!!!
    (it didn't seem so dark before the leaves grew!!! - sweet chestnuts come into leaf later than just about everything else)
    Tx

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    • #3
      I ended up trying to net my whole brassica bed, about 8' square, but it's only about 3' high, so I have to crawl around the brassicas on my knees catching caterpillars (turns out the netting holes were too big!), I'm sure the neighbours think I'm completly batty!
      Last edited by Comfreyfan; 10-09-2008, 06:33 PM.
      Life is too short for drama & petty things!
      So laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly!

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      • #4
        I carefully earthed up thistles thinking they were spuds.... doh!

        janeyo

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        • #5
          Watering my peas with the hose pipe and forgot I had it on JET SPRAY and lost a fair amount,.....

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          • #6
            gardening in the rain - oh hang on .... I always do that anyway
            aka
            Suzie

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            • #7
              planting 10 courgette plants, i don't think i even like courgettes any more

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              • #8
                Knowing that 6 courgette plants were to many last year
                Sowing 4 seeds + 2 in case of failures = 6 again this year!!!!!!

                WHY?

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                • #9
                  I planted my young onions right next to the courgette, despite having grown courgette before. I should KNOW that they take over like triffids!!! Poor little onions remained as just that. Shallots!!

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                  • #10
                    Not really anything to do with planting, but I decided the lottie shed needed a coat of paint. Fed up with brown I decided a nice cream, with a few blue flowers planted in the little border nearby would look a treat. I bought white undercoat and OH slapped it on, it was then that we realized that our discrete little shed suddenly stuck out like a sore thumb and would definitely have been the target of vandals had we left it like that so I reluctantly agreed that cream was probably not a great idea and bought a tin of brown. I wasn't prepared to buy more undercoat though, the brown needed a grey undercoat apparently. Anyway the top coat went on and now I have a pink shed. The moral of this story is, if it says grey undercoat, it MEANS grey undercoat. OH is refusing to paint it again as he reckons that a new shed would have worked out cheaper than all the gallons of exterior gloss.
                    Last edited by bluemoon; 11-09-2008, 09:51 AM.
                    Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by bluemoon View Post
                      I wasn't prepared to buy more undercoat though, the brown needed a grey undercoat apparently. Anyway the top coat went on and now I have a pink shed. .

                      ROFLMAO

                      Courgettes, don't talk to me about courgettes - yep 25 plants aaaarrrrgggghhhh. My OH blatantly announced last night "I HATE C.........." I will not plant any more than 5 seeds next year, I will not I will not, I will not
                      Hayley B

                      John Wayne's daughter, Marisa Wayne, will be competing with my Other Half, in the Macmillan 4x4 Challenge (in its 10th year) in March 2011, all sponsorship money goes to Macmillan Cancer Support, please sponsor them at http://www.justgiving.com/Mac4x4TeamDuke'

                      An Egg is for breakfast, a chook is for life

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                      • #12
                        missing spring completely, must do better next year lol
                        Somedays your up, somedays your down, but you have to make the best of everything

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                        • #13
                          Hayley B
                          I've got three courgette plants and the crop averages out around 30 each so far, if you've got 25 plants the sum comes out at 750 courgettes. I count myself a resourceful cook but that would have me on my knees....
                          As for daft mistakes - the one (one!!!) that's caused the most bother is putting the compost heaps in the wrong place, have now got to move the first one for the fifth, and I hope final time, its taller than I am so am waiting for the colder weather.
                          Oh and the other humdinger is putting an extra water butt behind the shed so that I have three connected, all very well but the brambles grew, I didn't have time to see to them and now there's a full water butt haven't been able to reach for months.
                          Sue

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                          • #14
                            Pumpkins- I have 6 that are the size of a small space hopper!
                            What the h--l do I do with them!

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                            • #15
                              Forgetting to protect against slugs properly and constantly. I've lost my spring cabbages (twice), lots of lettuce seedlings, winter kale, peas and beans, - and then the courgettes and squashes on the plot (and the summer squash at home) are also after getting ravaged ggggrrrrrrrr

                              Headfry - I'll take one if you want - I didn't get anything (from 9 butternut squash, 6 summer squash, 3 courgette and 4 pumpkin plants!). The only one that gave anything was the one courgette I grew at home.
                              Last edited by Winged one; 12-09-2008, 10:07 AM.

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