You know you can only think about Gardening when.................

[Vegi potager]

When you can't wait for paying guests to go out so you can go and try and hunt down your one and only apple which happens to be in 'their private garden'

Nicos, you may have to wait, but be thankful. If it was any of us we might have nabbed it! Nope, because we are all coming to stay in winter, with our seed catalogues, note books, graph paper and multi coloured pens for next years garden plans You could be fully booked between Nov 5th-Jan 1st. Got to be back home in time to start up the propagators!

have I just given you a new idea for your marketing? GYO sessions for beginners/ intermediates. Have a session on composting every 3 months and get your students to turn over the heap for you! (and off I go...)

[Vegi potager]

Who else has a big sticky either side of their monitor? 1 side, expected deliveries (fyi garlic and onion sets coming end of sept.) Other: stuff you want to order... this one happens to be about 3 A5 stickys and too long to share

[MillieBee]

It's not on my monitor, I do keep a notebook on my desk to scribble in garden plans, order lists etc though, does that count?

[Vegi potager]

It's not on my monitor, I do keep a notebook on my desk to scribble in garden plans, order lists etc though, does that count?

Millie, Yes It Does.
Of course, you get extra Garden Nerd Points for colour coded pens, bits of catalogues torn out and stuck in, using a diary to note down how many weeks before/after first/last frost etc...

Anyone else with ideas for GNPs?

[Chestnut]

You ‘need’ 6 cardboard fruit boxes to carry your ball of string out of the supermarket ( Especially at times of year when pumpkins and apples are nearly ready to harvest...)

To say nothing of measuring up your frost free garage in supermarket fruit box lengths when getting ideas for a winter shelving project....

[1Bee]

Your last words to Husband when dropping off to sleep are, "I'm trying to remember the rotation... do I manure after peas?"

[greenishfing]

It was when I went into the calendar on my phone that I realised it had been hijacked by the allotment. I have never been so organised, all the planting dates (well most...can't expect miracles) have been put in while I've been having cups of tea in the shed. A lot of the photos on it are of the allotment or produce from it. In the notes section are seed lists and recipes for veg and fruit. Also I visit here more often because the phone is always to hand. How did my allotment ever manage without it?

[jonahjonah]

...you reach into your pocket to stash your train ticket and find a handful of nasturtium seeds that you collected from the allotment.

[veggiechicken]

..........when buying a bunch of flowers for your Mother/another you choose the bunch that will make the most cuttings (a bunch of carnations bought today with lots of slips).

[Baldy]

Well, the other night in bed, quite late, subdued lighting, glass or two of bubbly imbibed, in a Barry White voice, I was getting quite suggestive with Mrs Balder's...



"Could I move the greenhouse to the bottom of the garden rather than get rid of it?"



Yet to be agreed but I'm hopeful...

[SarrissUK]

Well, the other night in bed, quite late, subdued lighting, glass or two of bubbly imbibed, in a Barry White voice, I was getting quite suggestive with Mrs Balder's...



"Could I move the greenhouse to the bottom of the garden rather than get rid of it?"

Yet to be agreed but I'm hopeful...

Who says romance is dead haha

[Jay-ell]

You see a sign in the middle of knowhere saying "Plant Sale Today" and shwn you find out it's actually engineering plant equipment they're selling pop in anyway 'cause one of those mini JCBs would be great for turning the compost and earthing up the spuds.

[1Bee]

You haven't been able to get on the plot much lately and you're eating your own weight in chocolate and barely functioning as a human being.

[Chestnut]

You choose your Saturday newspaper by the size of paper pots you intend to turn it into after you’ve read it (I’m suffering allotment deprivation too, and it’s raining again today...)

[chillithyme]

Your day isn't broken down by hours, but by how many times you can get out between the rain and sometimes in it to work
I've given up for the day, but am still gardening in my head, making plans and to do lists etc