Dear Visitors,
Well it is 2009 and my stories about the Incompetent Gardener persist.
I'm getting better, but not much. I still rely upon the kindness of
strangers and friends. I love gardening with the 'honey' who actually
believes I am too stupid to be allowed loose in the garden. Actually
his exact words were, "You are too damn stupid to be incompetent'.
So here is how stupid I am: I go out with my shovel and start
digging holes to plant onions and garlic (package says to plant in fall or
very early spring). Pretty soon he marches up and pushes me out of the
way. He has a hoe in his hands and proceeds to show me how a hoe works to
dig a trench so the plants are in nice straight lines.
So I'm like, "Hmmm, very interesting. Would you put another
row there or is that too close?" Pretty soon the trenches are
dug. And then I put the bulbs too close together and upside down so he
pushes me out of the way to set the bulbs.
Really stupid hoer ain't I?
Lots of new topics and friends revisited for this coming year. Jump Ahead
to Pushing Spring 2009 HERE
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Incompetent Gardener 2009 HERE
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Dear Visitors,
Nothing gets the spring blood flowing like a beautiful garden.
I have SEVEN and none of them are exactly beautiful, but I am working on it.
I hope what follows is a series of informative and perhaps humorous episodes
in my success and failures at gardening. The advertisers on these
pages are willing and ready to provide you with the tools, plants and
expertise to help your garden grow. The few pennies we earn with every
click through to a sponsor helps maintain the costs of this web site.
So you don't think I am a complete nincompoop, I assure you that some of
the instructional material in these stories are provided by competent
certified master gardeners. Other information comes from the back of
seed packets and plant boxes and pots.
Please enjoy these stories as much as I have enjoyed living through them.
Connie
Topics:
The Incompetent Gardener -
Few things have ever passed me by without some
opportunity for successful achievement. In 1954 I was first born to a
middle income western Pennsylvania town dwelling young couple. My mom did
all the family gardening in all the years I've known her. I married my
high school sweetheart who had grown up and educated in a family business
called Pottenger Nursery and Landscape Company. Ever hear the story
about the cobbler's children? Apply the same analogy for the landscaper's wife. ....... more
Pushing Spring - Come on, you all know you do it!
I know we do here on Chickadee Hill. I hear and see all the expert
advise about waiting until after danger of hard frost is gone. Or how
about the one about planting AFTER Mother's Day? Who can wait
that long? Not me that'' for sure! ...
more
Moving Grass -
You are what you grow - I'm fat, lush and fluffy.
A Weed Is Only a Weed - Before you dig it out,
find out if they sell it at the garden store.
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