First let me say that I was a bad girl and didn’t post yesterday, but in my defense I spent the whole day trying to make my internet work because it was misbehaving. Today? works just fine of course. So it was probably a problem on T-Mobile’s end of things rather than mine.
So that said lets get down to business. Today I want to talk about things that are just plain bad form when it comes to gardening or rather bad form for me. *grins* Planting something and then promptly pulling it all out as a weed? bad form. Planting something and then forgetting that you did so that you’re very surprised when something starts growing where there “should” be only weeds and dirt? bad form. Planting something and forgetting what plant it is to the point where you have to go online to find pictures to clarify just exactly what it is? bad for. And finally for the grand prize winner of no brainer bonehead garden mistakes- taking a weedeater to your beautiful kiwi vine that was all but killed last summer but miraculously came back this year stronger than ever and chopping off the largest section of vine? Really bad form. So which ones did I do? All of the above obviously. The plants that got weeded were pepper plants in my first full size garden when I was in High School. The mystery plant that was growing where nothing should be is Miner’s lettuce and I’ve already missed out on it this year- I’ll have to wait till next year or grow some more here in a few more weeks for a fall harvest. The plant that is unknown is endive *phew!* The kiwi will survive, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I keep setting myself back on getting fruit from that plant. Fingers crossed for next year or the year after that.
Now just so you know I’m not the worst gardener in the world, I picked my first two zucchini today, have several baby tomatoes, a couple of baby bell peppers and some Lazarus trees to boot. Lazarus trees you say, What the heck is that? Well they are trees that were dead but now they’re alive again and going strong. Trees that came from J4’s back yard that went through our heat spell without water because I was at the family reunion. One of the three got dug up and replaced already which I’m now regretting because the other two are putting on leaves like crazy despite our warm temps here.
So I’m not a total failure and I have more wins than losses here in the Casa de Sisk. But if you’ve ever gardened then you know there are lots of ways to make a fool out of yourself without even half trying aren’t there? What are some of your gardening mishaps? (she says as if anyone is out there even listening 
