I liked this when I found it, it hits a bit true to home (particularly those underlined)
You Know You're Addicted to Gardening When...
-Your neighbors recognize you in your pajamas,
rubber clogs and a cup of coffee.
-You grab other people's banana peels, coffee grinds,
apple cores, etc. for your compost pile.
-You have to wash your hair to get your fingernails clean. -All your neighbors come and ask you questions.
-You know the temperature of your compost every day.
-You buy a bigger truck so that you can haul more mulch.
-Your boss makes "taking care of the office plants" an
official part of your job description.
-Everything you touch turns to "fertilizer".
-Your non-gardening spouse becomes conversant in
botanical names
-You find yourself feeling leaves, flowers and trunks
of trees wherever you go, even at funerals
-You dumpster-dive for discarded bulbs after commercial
landscapers remove them to plant annuals. -You sneak home a 7 foot Japanese Maple and wonder if your
spouse will notice.
-When considering your budget, plants are more important
than groceries
-You always carry a shovel, bottled water and a plastic bag
in your trunk as emergency tools.
-You spend more time chopping your kitchen greens for the
compost pile than for cooking.
-You like the smell of horse manure better than Estee Lauder.
-You rejoice in rain...even after 10 straight days of it.
-You have pride in how bad your hands look.
-You have a decorative compost container on your kitchen counter.
-You'd rather go to a nursery to shop than a clothes store.
-You take every single person who enters your house on a
"garden tour"
-You look at your child's sandbox and see a raised bed.
-You ask for plants or garden tools for Christmas, Mother/Father's day, your
-Birthday and any other occasion you can think of.
-You can't bear to thin seedlings and throw them away.
-You scold total strangers who don't take care of their
potted plants.
-You drive around the neighborhood hoping to score extra bags
of leaves for your compost pile
-Your preferred reading matter is seed catalogs
-And last but not least:
You know that the four seasons are:
Planning the Garden
Preparing the Garden
Gardening
~and~
Preparing and Planning for the next Garden
-Author Unknown, I'd love to give credit to the rightful author.
My garden has taught me...
1) Not to prune a forsythia bush in late March. Ha! Learn more about pruning forsythias
2) Impatiens don't like afternoon sun (I knew that one already...when will I learn?)
3) Grass has this amazing tenacity to grow endlessly where you don't want it to, and pathetic deficiency when it comes to attempting to get it to grow where you do want it to.
4) Environmental activists who have perfect lawns are perhaps the biggest hypocrites known to man.
5) Lest you think it's a good idea to go out and weed after it's been raining all day because the ground is moist...beware, you WILL get eaten alive.
6) Keep telling yourself, "Little by little, little by little" or else you WILL give up and commit suicide.
7) Clearing away grass to plant a garden is back-breaking work
BEFORE
AFTER
