silliest thing ive done so far !

[slooky]

I was at my allotment the other day, and while hoeing my broad beans my thoughts turned to my my previous growing seasons and the mistakes ive made over the years

will fess up to my funniest being my 1st attempt at planting broad beans i started them of in the greenhouse but left them in for too long by the time i put them in they were very leggy. I spaced them out about 2ft apart and built this elaborate frame of netting and canes to support them. As i stood back to admire my work i noticed the audience of fellow allotment holders ready to pass comment.....suffice to say some seed went in pretty quick to fill in the gaps and a harvest was had

so come on fellow veg growers give us all a giggle What is the silliest thing you have ever done/planted /tried to grow

[NOG]

I got carried away and picked 6 buckets (full to the brim) of damsens. Took them home and Mrs Nog says what do you want me to do with those?

I then had to get rid of them before they went off. So phoned the WI and in no time it was like we were running a crack house. Old women were appearing at the back door with all sorts of containers.

Now we have 3 freezers and in they go till we can make jam.

[piskieinboots]

blimey slooky - when I started reading your post I thought I was going to see
>>>and while hoeing my broad beans my thoughts turned to my my previous growing seasons and the mistakes ive made over the years
...and chopped down the broadies phew

My mistakes:
digging concrete soil til my blisters bleed
growing weeds at lottie - it is overrated, don't do it!

I'm still a lottie baby so plenty of time to make really mistakes

[HeyWayne]

Digging over a couple of beds and discovering mysterious roots in the ground which for some reason now alien to me, thought they were left over potato roots.

You guessed it - they were in fact, our dear friend, bindweed.

[lainey lou]

I pulled out and burned all my leeks last year on the advice of a very old book cause they were infested with onion fly larvae or something similar. I've since been told I could have just trimmed them back and they would have been ok!

[Headfry]

Lovley Mr HF, when we first had our plot went looking for garlic 'seeds' so silly me made a look a like seed packet and put some garlic cloves in it for him!!! He did laugh, I must add -It was only done to make him smile and not to laugh at him,
We still have the packet of garlic 'seed' in our little box of our life's treasures some 11 years on.

[Becca]

planting out my asparagus crowns the night before a really hard frost just to please my sister (she'd been helping me dig all weekend and really wanted us to plant something..) they all died and I stilll haven;t had a chance to replace them.. presume I'm too late for this year now?