What Is the Daftest.....

[HayleyB]

Thing you've done in the garden this year, something that would have been soooo embarrassing that the rest of the grapes would have had a good giggle at.

Me

I planted a few onion seeds in some buckets that happily sprouted little green bits which, after a few days of hammering down with rain, you couldn't see cause the buckets were full of water - I hadn't put in any holes

[tootles]

Planting all my french beans in near total shade must quite high on the daft list!!!
(it didn't seem so dark before the leaves grew!!! - sweet chestnuts come into leaf later than just about everything else)

[Comfreyfan]

I ended up trying to net my whole brassica bed, about 8' square, but it's only about 3' high, so I have to crawl around the brassicas on my knees catching caterpillars (turns out the netting holes were too big!), I'm sure the neighbours think I'm completly batty!

[janeyo]

I carefully earthed up thistles thinking they were spuds.... doh!

janeyo

[helly]

Watering my peas with the hose pipe and forgot I had it on JET SPRAY and lost a fair amount,.....

[piskieinboots]

gardening in the rain - oh hang on .... I always do that anyway

[rainbowbrite]

planting 10 courgette plants, i don't think i even like courgettes any more

[Headfry]

Knowing that 6 courgette plants were to many last year
Sowing 4 seeds + 2 in case of failures = 6 again this year!!!!!!

WHY?

[SlugLobber]

I planted my young onions right next to the courgette, despite having grown courgette before. I should KNOW that they take over like triffids!!! Poor little onions remained as just that. Shallots!!

[bluemoon]

Not really anything to do with planting, but I decided the lottie shed needed a coat of paint. Fed up with brown I decided a nice cream, with a few blue flowers planted in the little border nearby would look a treat. I bought white undercoat and OH slapped it on, it was then that we realized that our discrete little shed suddenly stuck out like a sore thumb and would definitely have been the target of vandals had we left it like that so I reluctantly agreed that cream was probably not a great idea and bought a tin of brown. I wasn't prepared to buy more undercoat though, the brown needed a grey undercoat apparently. Anyway the top coat went on and now I have a pink shed. The moral of this story is, if it says grey undercoat, it MEANS grey undercoat. OH is refusing to paint it again as he reckons that a new shed would have worked out cheaper than all the gallons of exterior gloss.

[HayleyB]

I wasn't prepared to buy more undercoat though, the brown needed a grey undercoat apparently. Anyway the top coat went on and now I have a pink shed. .

ROFLMAO

Courgettes, don't talk to me about courgettes - yep 25 plants aaaarrrrgggghhhh. My OH blatantly announced last night "I HATE C.........." I will not plant any more than 5 seeds next year, I will not I will not, I will not

[bloom]

missing spring completely, must do better next year lol

[Sue]

Hayley B
I've got three courgette plants and the crop averages out around 30 each so far, if you've got 25 plants the sum comes out at 750 courgettes. I count myself a resourceful cook but that would have me on my knees....
As for daft mistakes - the one (one!!!) that's caused the most bother is putting the compost heaps in the wrong place, have now got to move the first one for the fifth, and I hope final time, its taller than I am so am waiting for the colder weather.
Oh and the other humdinger is putting an extra water butt behind the shed so that I have three connected, all very well but the brambles grew, I didn't have time to see to them and now there's a full water butt haven't been able to reach for months.
Sue

[Headfry]

Pumpkins- I have 6 that are the size of a small space hopper!
What the h--l do I do with them!

[Winged one]

Forgetting to protect against slugs properly and constantly. I've lost my spring cabbages (twice), lots of lettuce seedlings, winter kale, peas and beans, - and then the courgettes and squashes on the plot (and the summer squash at home) are also after getting ravaged ggggrrrrrrrr

Headfry - I'll take one if you want - I didn't get anything (from 9 butternut squash, 6 summer squash, 3 courgette and 4 pumpkin plants!). The only one that gave anything was the one courgette I grew at home.