I think I might have learned some stuff

I don't know how it happened, and I'm not sure what to do about it, but I think I might have accidentally learned some gardening stuff. Now I'm worried that the new knowledge might be pushing something else out of my head.

Today I went to see a mate of mine, whose front and back gardens are a mess and for the first time ever he's decided to take an interest in them.

After listening to what he wanted from his garden (something low maintenance, tidy, and productive for the kitchen), I found myself talking about the condition of his soil, recommending plants, saying where I'd put them, working out when he should plant them and when he could expect to start harvesting.

I even found myself telling him that he can't use the patch he'd pointed out for his mediterranean herbs because it just didn't get enough sun, and pointed out a sunny sheltered spot in his front garden that he could use as an alternative etc.

Then, having looked in his junk shed, I spotted an old glass paned door, and without thinking stated 'that'd make a good coldframe lid for next year'.

Am I in danger of actually learning stuff? I always try not to learn things, just in case someone sets me up as the expert I'm most definitely not

 

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Nice one Dave

Stay with us and you'll be managing an estate like the Victorian Kitchen Garden soon.

It's working both ways though, since chatting with you, i'm now grasping HTML codeing, getting into website source codes and all sorts

Just been asked to build a website for a friend Couldn't have done that without your sage advice.

My friend invented a type of tressle about 10 years ago that is so simple & effective you'd kick yourself for not thinking of it yourself.

I was sworn to secrecy but he has now got a patent on it and interest from some big brand names and stores. He's an engineer & is not big on marketing so I want to get involved from the start & do that side of things. He asked for a price but I might suggest a share instead, you never know.

 

Hey look at you
Now next job is scrub those pots out
Spruce

 

As I 've been gardening for 23 years. Getting through mistakes and successes, learning along the way. It is naturally to just spout out what you learned if you think it will help someone. And I 've found most folks are so grateful for the insight, especially when I talk, "if you do this you will save money". Wish I did know what I know today 23 years ago, would have saved myself some money.

 

I do hope the lost info is not that you still owe me a tenner..ROFL

Good one mate, send him a consultation bill...:happydance:

Steve...

 

Ahh Clueless, your post did make me smile. I've found myself in danger of doing that too. One of the women I work with, was browsing my plant catalogue at work last week, and I found myself discussing plants with her. I didn't think I'd stored much info on what I'd learned about gardening so far, but I seem to have retained a bit. Quite shocking really, as I try to wander around life quietly. It's easier that way. lol..
And as for the door you saw, and thought of turning it into a cold frame; I've done the exact same thing, with some old windows we took out and replaced last year. Hub was all set to throw them up the tip, but I won't allow it, as once the greenhouse arrives, then they'll make absolutely fantastic cold frames to sit along side it.

This gardening lark, it's really quite addictive!

 

Its insidious isn't it ! These thing sneaky , slidey appear in your head and stay there , uninvited and smug looking and u open your mouth and out they pop , taking u completely unawares - I just don't know what to suggest , I still haven't found ways of making it stop .
I think it starts to leave its mark on the outside too , I'll be walking around a garden centre , minding my own business and people will come up to me and start asking me where they can find things and whats best for where -I don't know, I don't work here , why r u asking me ?! - I think you'll find they're over behind the wisteria madam- oh my god, somebody help me !!!!!!! : )

 

Thats awsome Dave, and no doubt your friend will appreciate all your advice...both now and in the future.

 

It is frightening isn't it. A strange woman walked into my house the other day and started talking to me as though she's known me for a long time. Then I realised she was my wife, my new knowledge is already starting to displace stuff (I'm joking by the way)

Wozwoz, you're right. Just the other day I was looking at some rather poorly tulips in pots at a local shop. They were being sold at four pots for a pound because they needed some TLC. While I was pondering an old lady came and stood next to me, also looking at them. She said 'they don't look very well do they?', to which I replied 'no, but it might be worth the price just for the pot and the compost if nothing else, and the bulbs might recover for next year'. She then said 'they clearly haven't been watered enough'. I couldn't believe what happened next. I heard my mouth say 'I think they've been kept too warm with insufficient light for too long'.

 

The knowledge is there... it just needs dragging out of us.. I know with me it takes some time, but I usually get there in the end.

I just love this saying.
" I know what I know.. but I dont know what I dont know"

 

Theres a Dorset version of that Robert ;

"Tis what it is, and cassn't be what it tissn't."

Well, similar thing anyway.

 

Not the samething but this reminds me of my favourite phrase from the Yorkshire phrase book (a tongue in cheek book of translations between English and Yorkshire):

Yorkshire: tin tin tin

English: It isn't in the tin

 

Nice one Dave

There was a photo in the national geographic of a handwritten sign on a Yorkshire farm, it said,

"Tek care, lambs on't road"