Gardening advice I should have taken!

[Greenleaves]

I am sure we have asked for gardening advice and then still decided we know best! On occasions we are right to follow our instinct but at other times we should have really follwed the advice given.

Mine was to think I could grow JA's in open ground without consequence , big mistake!

I have spent most of this week digging and sieving around 10 cubic meters of soil in the hope I have most of the little blighters.....if only I had listerned

I am sure I am not alone in failing to heed warnings when it comes to gardening!

[Baldy]

Don't join any online gardening forums was one...
ARe you sure you want to plant your raspberries in a long line down the middle of your plot? was another...

[vixylix]

Oooh lots of things I'm sure - off the top of my head, not leaving enough space between plants. It always seems like way too much when you're planting out tiny seedlings and 6 weeks later you're big time regretting it

[Jay-ell]

Advice? Nah, on our site everyone just looks at everything I'm doing, tuts, sighs then walks of shaking their heads.

[bario1]

My biggest ever was 'always test locally sourced horse manure with beans first in case it's contaminated'. I thought "What? That's going to be about a month of waiting before I can get all this great manure dug into my plot! It'll be fine!"....

[bramble]

Asking for advice re spacing ad thrn doing it my own way.
Trying to squeeze in too many plants in a small area even though the advice is,,, dont do it.

[maverick451]

Someone said to me growing 80 tomatoes is too much........

[Yasai]

Sorry... what are JAs???????????????????????????

[Jay-ell]

Jerusalem Artichokes - hard to find every tuber when you dig them up and each tuber grows into loads

[Tripmeup]

Two courgette plants will be plenty...

[happyhumph]

Brassicas need netting against flippy flappy spotty white bottoms (as my dad and eldest named them last year).........

[Greenleaves]

Sorry... what are JAs???????????????????????????

Jerusalem Artichokes

[TrixC]

I've just planted JAs for the first time and now you're worrying me. They're in a permanent bed so I'm not too worried about having to get rid of them so other things can grow there next year, but will they also spread sideways to encroach on other nearby areas? I was expecting them to behave like potatoes.

[Lardman]

Mine was to think I could grow JA's in open ground without consequence , big mistake!

I have spent most of this week digging and sieving around 10 cubic meters of soil in the hope I have most of the little blighters.....if only I had listerned

I wish someone would have told me ! I am still digging them out 8 YEARS after clearing them I only planted just 5 tubers. Foul things - worthy of weed killer.

I really wish Id have listed when people said "you're planting those too close together". That applies to everything in my patch, from asparagus, raspberry canes, blueberry bushes and apple trees. I just don't learn.