Men v. Wimmin

[Two_Sheds]

anybody care to discuss the differences between the sexes when it comes to gardening?
My first impressions are that: men like straight lines, giant veg and bare earth, women like flowers and wildlife, and prefer quality over size

[stigoftheplot]

Yes I've noticed the men plant in straight lines and women seem to go a bit wobbly. Taste just as good though. Also notice women chat but men are the gossips, not that they'd admit it!

[Alison]

Probably a bit over simplistic there, I do like my garden to look nice and deliberately chose varieties with varieties of colour, especially as year on year I have taken over the flower garden with more crops, not really a proper cottage garden but by using various cropping plants instead of summer bedding - not perfected it yet but am having fun on route! Suppose colour and texture is very important to me, also encouraging wildlife and don't like bare earth but that's cos it's a planting space missed. What about anybody else?

[Flummery]

Whooo, potential can of worms (and wormesses) here! It sounds like, Men are from Mars, Women are from Visa!
My next door neighbour (man) likes summer bedding plants, hoed earth and grows his veg in rigid straight lines. I (woman) like perennials, ground cover through which things can seed (I do LOVE a free plant!) and grow veg in staggered lines (offset, you might say) and blocks and occasionally broadcast into odd spaces. So my experience says you might be right.

[bubblewrap]

anybody care to discuss the differences between the sexes when it comes to gardening?
My first impressions are that: men like straight lines, giant veg and bare earth, women like flowers and wildlife, and prefer quality over size

Never mind the quality feel the width!

[Two_Sheds]

Wicked, BW!

I'm talking about the "old-timers" who plant a whole row of, say, leeks/parsnips/old socks just because its a row and it needs to be filled up to the end, rather than thinking "I don't like eating leeks every day, so I'll only plant as much as I need" (one of my allotment neighbours has rows and rows of leeks and sprouts, going to rack and ruin...why doesn't he grow something he likes eating? Or sniffing?)

[NOG]

I have noticed that unless you get a Thai one . Women are rubbish carrying 120lt bags of compost up hill.

My mates Thai one you can bend her over and get two on her back and she will come back with the wheelbarrow and push him to the plot. And he dosent have to beat her....................much.

My Welsh one, ok you can get the bale on her back but the bleeting and then strangley the next morning when I wake up, my face is all brused, she says that its cos she dosent use softener in the washing ??

[Two_Sheds]

Women are rubbish carrying 120lt bags of compost up hill

That's because women are too intelligent to carry it up a hill...they will instead site the Dalek at top of said hill, and empty the compost in situ

[Two_Sheds]

My Welsh one, ok you can get the bale on her back but the bleeting ...

One of Jethro's jokes? (sheep with its head stuck in a fence, wriggling. Jethro says I'll have a go, never shagged a sheep before. when he's done, he turns to his mate: "your go". "No way" says mate, "I'll never get my head thru that fence"

[Snadger]

This is a fact, and I am not proud of it! We have forty allotments on our site and all are worked by men! I would estimate about half are show leek growers! It would seem that here in the North East the allotment is the male bastion?

There are now six on the waiting list, and they are all men as well!

Last Of The Summer Wine eat your heart out!

[Two_Sheds]

Snadger, what's going on? Our site is now 50/50 girls n boys, young n older, organic n chemical. It makes a nice vibrant mix - we all laugh at each other's efforts

[johnty greentoes]

Glad to hear most women prefer quality to size!!!!! Works in my favour.

My plot is dominated by men. 1 woman, Di, and she has caused a rumpus by having turf delivered so her 2-year-old can play in safety while she gardens. An 80 year-old called Herefordshire Tom complained to the committee about the rise of "recreation gardeners". Abso-bloody-hilarious - worth going to meetings just to watch it all kick off. Makes Vicar of Dibley PCC meetings look totally believable.

Men are about straight lines and women are about curves... Now let me ses ...

[Snadger]

One of Jethro's jokes? (sheep with its head stuck in a fence, wriggling. Jethro says I'll have a go, never shagged a sheep before. when he's done, he turns to his mate: "your go". "No way" says mate, "I'll never get my head thru that fence"

I heard that one differntly, it was Kyle Minogue with her head through the fence and after Mick jagger has finished he turns to Elton John and says "Go on its your turn now!" Elton says " No way, I'll never get my head through that fence!"

[Snadger]

Snadger, what's going on? Our site is now 50/50 girls n boys, young n older, organic n chemical. It makes a nice vibrant mix - we all laugh at each other's efforts

Just hope to hell I haven't joined a gay gardening club!

[johnty greentoes]

I heard that one differntly, it was Kyle Minogue with her head through the fence and after Mick jagger has finished he turns to Elton John and says "Go on its your turn now!" Elton says " No way, I'll never get my head through that fence!"

Now I get it...