With the best intention

[Greenleaves]

Paid a visit to the plot today under the supervision of the OH, sit down and read she said! The OH is no gardener, but insisted in doing the hand weeding. So I sat down as told with my July issue of GYO. After about an hour she said she was done and had removed all the small bindweed shoots. Now as I said she is no gardener so I guess it was an easy mistake to make.......I only grow beetroot for her anyway and I suppose they do look very similar

I havent the heart to tell her but just glad she never touched the parsnips!

[veggiechicken]

Funniest thing I've heard today, GL. Better get your missus to sow some more beetroot before she asks where they are!

[Scarlet]

that sounds so much like my OH. He tries to help, especially with the heavy jobs or jobs with tools. Now the strimmer is his downfall, guaranteed everytime he uses it he comes to me with half a plant but they are the ones he notices, there's loads more that are left half cut. His Dad was worse, he tidied up my wild flower border

[Bill HH]

I have similar things happen, I grew 4 standard fuchias, training the stem up canes, they were truly beuatiful. When winter came i put them in the greenhouse to keep the frost off them. Then unfortunately I went into hospital for a week. When I came out the fuchias were 1 inch stumps insead of 3 foot specimens. "Oh its ok my wife said, they were dead".

[JanieB]

I spent several hours in the pouring rain planting plants that I'd ordered through the post. We were having a family weekend and my sister-in-law and her husband were staying for the weekend. I had to go in to work for a couple of hours on the Saturday. When I got home my s-I-l had "weeded" all the plants I had so lovingly planted and had prepared all the veggies for Sunday lunch, they were all mixed up in my jam pan in salted water and in about 1cm cubes. This was before shops were open on Sunday's.

[Martin H]

I am so lucky.

I don't know how they've learnt, because I can't remember any "accidents", but nobody dares lift a finger in my garden or on my allotment without precise and comprehensive instructions from me. Actually even then they are so tentative as to be not much help, so unless it's completely and obviously impossible for me to do things I'm left on my own.

I am so lucky.

[Bal]

My darling OH who loves the landscaping part of gardening is always telling me you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, as I am hiding the anger at the swathe of wreckage he has left in his path as he has "helped " me dig or move something. I just bite my tongue and say nothing as hi has the best of intentions

[veggiechicken]

My neighbour used to come in to strim the garden while I was away.
The first time he strimmed the rhubarb but I said nothing as he meant well.
The next time, he strimmed the rhubarb, so I asked him whether he liked rhubarb
"Oh Yes, love rhubarb tart!"
Well I won't be making you one as you've strimmed the rhubarb.

He hung his head in embarrassment and said he look out for it next time.
I put branches around it to make it obvious.
The next time he strimmed..........you've guessed, he strimmed the rhubarb.

I've never had any rhubarb from that garden!
We laugh about it now. His help clearing the garden is worth a lot more than a few sticks of rhubarb.

[Guest]

My hubby is really good actually. I can quiz him and he knows what everything is despite not gardening and also he won't step foot into the veg patch or gh unless I am there My oldest, (two and a half) currently has a fascination for watering everything so things seem relatively safe for the time being.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Like Martin I am very lucky, SWMBO does the flowers my veg are all my own. If anything goes wrong it is my fault alone.

[ancee]

My o.h. would love a chainsaw. We have nothing that needs chainsaw ing!! That wouldn't stop him though! So we are not getting one, ever!

[Coopers]

I was dead heading my garden and my 3 year old daughter showed interest. So I showed her which ones to look for. Well, she pulled all the flowers off. Almost a year later she's till gets the flowers...