A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardening Bloopers & Other Accidents of Nature....

Hi y'all.

Tonight something Lynne posted about an accident w/ mulch in her garden reminded me of something my big brother did once years ago. I laughed about it tonight as I had back then & started thinking about Gardening Bloopers & how we've all had one or had one done unto us.

So, a thread to share the worst/best of the oopsies and ouchies and screwups & just plain ole disasters you've encountered while working in your gardens.

So I'll start by ratting out my big brother. One day while Mom & us younger kids were not at home, Larry thought he'd do Mom a "big favor" by "weeding" her garden. He pulled out all her Baby's Breath! Mom didn't think it was entirely funny but us kids who knew Gyp from a weed, did.



Your turn!

Sprayed Round Up instead of liquid fertilizer in my plants.

Oh that is too funny, Tam! Poor you!

And the worst of it is, you did it to yourself! Did you wanna scream at you or smack yourself! Oh my....

Well I used to work at a dairy farm and the farmer told me to take a bottle of each, he buys in bulk tanks..I just forgot to label the bottles..haha

OOPSIE! Unlabeled Bottles = Disaster In The Making!

Oh well, at least I didn't have to weed

I thought I was planting my gourd seedlings around my trellis and it turned out I had planted my cucumber seedlings around my trellis and the gourds in the garden. I do cage my cukes but the cages weren't sturdy like the trellis for the gourds so some changes in scaffolding had to be made mid season.

Oh..planting Goutweed without knowing what it was..I just had to have that pretty variegated plant

OMG, Sheri, I so would NOT have wanted to disentangle viney stuff from around cages & a trellis & swap out the structures, OMG! Poor girl to have to go through that!

Merme *laughing*

Ok - this is going to turn into a thread about my husband!!!


Just a few summers into living in this house, Amy and I were thrilled to see a sunflower growing in the middle of a garden, that I hadn't planted. Apparently a birdie dropped a seed and it grew, so we babied it. Imagine the day I went out to check on it, to find that Don had WEEDWACKED it because he thought it was a weed!!! He has not lived that down one day ever since!!!

Oh gosh Lynne. I hate when that happens. I've had yard helpers and Johnny cut down stuff that I had just planted. Sometimes it's just better to do it myself.