Share the pain of a gardening 'incident'

[SleepyHedgehog]

Any disasters that only really get the right reaction from another gardener welcome!

Mine is this:
I have been mooching thinning out unwanted plants, DH merrily managing his composting zone in the background. I made a separate pile for the horsetail to be burned/banished from the premises, been doing this for a few years and it's manageable currently but have to keep an eye out.
Me 'DH where's the separate pile gone?'
DH 'Oh I've shredded everything for you and turned the compost heap'. *horror movie music plays

A long, long time ago, many years, but my DGF bought and planted some rose bushes for my DGM.

He planted them upside down!

think gardening disasters run in our family. I did the stepping on a rake bit went to hospital had tetanus jab had a bad reaction to the tetanus so double whammy for me!
Grandson was at his dads allotment with him when his ds said he has fell over. sil said oh he will be ok took him home bathed him put him in his pjs, gd said I am not sure his arm looks strange no hes fine my sil insisted.
few hours later mum came home from work and took one look at gs rushed straight to casualty. he had a broken elbow! bless him he put up with undressing puting pjs on sat 3 hours waiting for mum to come home without a fuss! he is a tough cookie had to go through a lot in his 5 years ops etc so not suprising, he had a few days off school but when he went back everyone had miss his happy smiling face so they lined up in the yard and formed a guard of honour with loud cheers!

My DH is generally quite good but yesterday to clear the lawn prior to fertilising it he put the table on the patio. This is almost entirely covered in pots, and it broke off the lovely main flower spike off a blue salvia and lots of white pelargonium flowers off the big centre pot.

I'm not sure why he fertilised the lawn anyway, it looks fine to me apart from a few dandelions and thistles that need to be dealt with, I can guarantee that in a few weeks time he'll be bemoaning the fact it's growing too fast.

I'm notoriously poor at paying attention and often go off half cocked...In my rookie veg growing days my tomato plants were growing strongly so to encourage them to put their efforts into fruiting...I picked off the flowers 😖

Re: Pruning Mishaps

Hello All,

The late great gardener Christopher Lloyd in his book The Well-Tempered Garden described pruning mishaps in the following delightful way.

“One can feel surprisingly embittered at an act of vandalism on a cherished plant by another member of the family. If the deed was a hired assassin’s, it’s not so bad. But one cannot easily give the sack to one’s own parent, child, husband or wife”.

A well worthwhile read.

Happy gardening
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