What's the stupidest thing a non-gardener has said to you?

[Flummery]

... or your courgettes....

Aye... tempting innit!
Someone said to me once that she didn't like the carrots her husband grew on the allotment because of their strong flavour! The blandness of the commercial carrot has a lot to answer for. People don't actually recognise carrot taste!

[Headfry]

Spent ages trying to work out the plant a work mate bought a few years back
she said it was a Cotton Easter.......contoneaster in other words!!! tee heee
OH wanted to buy garlic 'seed' when I first started on my plot, I made up a seed packet and filled it with cloves of garlic, wrote instructions on the back, he did not know, and thought it came like other small seeds! and yes I love him lots, but had to laugh, he is a fab veg grower now!

[rustylady]

Aye... tempting innit!
Someone said to me once that she didn't like the carrots her husband grew on the allotment because of their strong flavour! The blandness of the commercial carrot has a lot to answer for. People don't actually recognise carrot taste!

There's little to beat the taste of a fresh carrot pulled out of the ground, washed under the nearest tap, and eaten.

[Sue]

Rustylady
I get a similar response to fresh eggs, there's the response to the eggy taste (too strong!!) and I was so proud of my fresh that day eggs too

and the other one is distate they come out of the same place as poo...well all the eggs they eat do, not just mine...

I suppose seeing chickens in action and not shut away in some vast hidden barn brings home to people the actualities of egg production.

The other thing that amuses me is some people's response to using compost and manure, worries over tainting crops, is it safe to eat them etc. As I'm one for snatching left over food off people's plates and going through their bins for compostable items this rather outrages me. Perhaps it's all to do with that divorce from the means of production and the safe little packages in the supermarket?
Sue

[nick the grief]

Spent ages trying to work out the plant a work mate bought a few years back
she said it was a Cotton Easter.......contoneaster in other words!!! tee heee
OH wanted to buy garlic 'seed' when I first started on my plot, I made up a seed packet and filled it with cloves of garlic, wrote instructions on the back, he did not know, and thought it came like other small seeds! and yes I love him lots, but had to laugh, he is a fab veg grower now!

A lad I usd to work with got married and decided he was going to Grow his own and show us all how it's done - he then went to a local shop and askes if he coul have some of the "Le tussay" plants shop keeper looks puzzled, he repeats they go out side and he points to ...... Lettuce plants !!!

He always was a dick head

[Nicos]

After we had spent the whole Spring preparing the lottie for planting out, and feeling pleased with our efforts, we proudly showed our plot to our friend............
Taking one look at all the bare soil......" Ooooohhhh...youv'e got an awful lot to do"

[skegblade]

Youngest son's ex girlfriend actually thought sprouts grew individually in the ground and very surprised to find she was wrong. And she's a VEGGIE

[bubblewrap]

Dosen't spaghetti grow on trees?
Yes in the Sans serife!

[momol]

I happened to talk about gardening, I show my friend some pictures of them and telling that I grow mainly vegetables, herbs and fruit... she look at me with such way and say " do you have to do all that ? is it worth it spending so much time and effort ?

I was almost speachless...


Momol