Wahhhh!!!

[pickledtink]

Didn't they realise that it would be less rude to politely refuse your offer than to accept then bin it? Seems a basic lack of manners to me.

I don't even understand why he did that. They were my side shoot cuttings. All the others are still giving me a steady supply. I gave him 3 because he said they had had no joy when they tried to grow em last year! I can't believe he just binned all the green toms. Think of the chutney!
I just don't get some people. His main joy in gardening seems to be the weeding but they never seem to understand which plants should go where to do best.

Honestly I feel like I proffered some puppies to good homes and found them drowned in a sack or something. ( note to self ' you're losing the plot.' Get out more)

[dexterdoglancashire]

But hey! isn't it nice to help someone, even though you might not get a thanks you? DDL

[Alice]

Hello Pickledtink, I can understand why you feel as you do. I just think you have to accept that your neighbour doesn't share your values. My children laugh when I say I am glad everyone is not the same as me because if they were they would drive me MAD ! You enjoy your tomatoes and let your neighbour enjoy whatever is important to him.

[CarolineSonning]

Isn't it strange how the self-seeded plants always seem to do better than the ones you spend time and money on!!

I haven't bought sunflower seeds for years, but my border is full of lovely self-seeded plants in a range of colours. I always leave the heads on so the birds can help themselves to the seeds, and they seem to make sure they leave some on the soil to re-grow.

Isn't this always the way.

I'm new to gardening and created a new bed in our new garden. I had visions of climbers with masses of Sunflowers in front so I bought 2 packs of seeds and planted them. Nothing happened. So I got 2 more packets and started them off inside, after planting them out we had a fantastic display masses of huge heads - just what I had visualised.

I was really looking forward to the mass of birds this would attract and to harvesting seed for both myself and the birds. And what do I discover the seeds I had bought were F1 so all the seeds are empty . No food, no feeding frenzy and to add insult to injury I've got to buy and plant more seeds next year. Aaaaaaaaaah .

[Waffler]

Oh no! That's terrible. I've managed to grow 2 (!) lovely sunflowers, (from old seeds) having never grown them before. I was over the moon yesterday to go out and discover actual real sunflower seeds inside (like, what else what you get from a sunflower? Duh!) Llike you, I was planning on harvesting some for me and a few favoured individuals to grow next year, and the rest for the birds. I hope I don't run in to the same problem as you!

Incidentally, I have some more old sunflower seeds which I was going to put out for the birds (I had loads of old seeds and this particular variety didn't germinate at all) - is it ok to do that. The only reason I ask is because on the packs they say something along the lines of 'Plant. Don't eat', or words to that effect. It's surely not going to harm the birds is it?

[CarolineSonning]

I was over the moon yesterday to go out and discover actual real sunflower seeds inside (like, what else what you get from a sunflower? Duh!)

Waffler, I know that feeling of excitement I did exactly the same, dinner plate size heads with all these lovely seeds. Except when I pulled one out and peeled it to eat - nothing . Oh well there is always next year.

[kirsty b]

My daughter planted sunflower seeds that she got out of cockatiel mix and for her effort she got some lovely sunflowers of differing sizes all with full seed heads.
Kirsty

[Earthbabe]

I gave toms to a neighbour and they just tossed them in the bin! Didn't even try growing them! Muppets...

I gave a number of strawberry plants to a neighbour with clear instructions. After sitting in a tray for a number of weeks they found their way into the green recycling bag. She's a bit weird anyway but I would have been less offended if she had simply said no.

They are supposed to be moving and giving the amount of ill feeling they seem to have created the sooner the better.

[Alison]

At least she put them in the recycle bag!

[Waffler]

I can't understand people that don't say "Thanks, but no thanks" and throw things away - it's so wasteful and ungrateful and rude and thoughtless and...

[pickledtink]

Even if he'd let me have all the green ones on the plants to make EB's Chutney recipe! But the whole lot went in a black bin bag! Not even on a compost heap or anything. I'm gobsmacked really. In fact thinking about it they must be in a black bin bag put out tonight cos the binmen come early hours tomorrow morning.
What the hell. I've had a nice day, dinner and one or two glasses of the red nectar.
Now where's my black balaclava.......

[pickledtink]

I can't understand people that don't say "Thanks, but no thanks" and throw things away - it's so wasteful and ungrateful and rude and thoughtless and...

....oblivious to the nurturing nature of growing. Quite.
I was wanting to ask them if I could take maybe one of them back to grow indoors to see if I could get fresh red toms for Christmas but didn't want to seem like some kid demanding their ball back.
From now on anyone I give my beloved seedlings to will have to go through stringent checks like the rescue animal lot do! Grrrr!!!

[Earthbabe]

At least she put them in the recycle bag!

There is that I suppose, but this is the same woman who put three perfectly serviceable hanging flower bags in the recycle bag full of compost and some still flowering plants and then wasn't happy when the collectors removed them before taking away the rest of her green waste. How lazy and thoughtless. I'd have had them off her. She is probably the only one in the street who has more waste in her regular bin than her recycling bin with a family of four. Even the family of five have less in their normal bin than that and they have three cats, a rabbit, a turtle, two fish and a butcher's shop.

It makes me so cross. It's wasteful, thoughtless and selfish.

[pickledtink]

There is that I suppose, but this is the same woman who put three perfectly serviceable hanging flower bags in the recycle bag full of compost and some still flowering plants and then wasn't happy when the collectors removed them before taking away the rest of her green waste. How lazy and thoughtless. I'd have had them off her. She is probably the only one in the street who has more waste in her regular bin than her recycling bin with a family of four. Even the family of five have less in their normal bin than that and they have three cats, a rabbit, a turtle, two fish and a butcher's shop.

It makes me so cross. It's wasteful, thoughtless and selfish.

Good God! Really? Actually makes me feel rather despondant this kind of rampant wastefulness.
So a good old Gaelic sentiment of disaproval ( in Czech obviously)

pomoci pomoci JÁ potřebovat pivo , víno a dort bezprostřední či JÁ vůle trpět neurč. člen BEZPROSTŘEDNÍ kolacionovat!

So there.

[Earthbabe]

I only get cross because in some ways it feels more positive than letting it get me down.

And what does the Czech mean PT?