You know you’re an obsessive gardener when ...

1 … you come home from work and first thing you do is water the plants before you feed the kids.

2 … you eat on your lap because the table is full of plants.

3 … you don’t take long summer holidays anymore because you don’t trust the friend/neighbour who offers to water.

4 … you go out for walks but stand and stare at people’s front gardens or purposely take a ‘short cut’ through the allotments to compare with your veggies.

5 ... you have too many pots in the windowsill, your greenhouse is bursting and you’re spending so long on freecycle/ebay searching for cold frames or an extra greenhouse that your OH thinks you’re on dating sites.

6 … you keep asking the kids if they want a yoghurt/custard just so you can have the pot.

7 … you keep a spreadsheet of all your seed packets, plant purchases, sowings and garden plans.

8 … your work colleagues come to rely on you bringing in your spare tomato plants so you have to grow even more and add their names into your seed sowing spreadsheet.

9 … you ask friends, family and neighbours to save you their cardboard loo roll inners to use as plant pots.

10 … you read the latest posts on GardenersCorner about some plant you’ve never heard of before and simultaneously search ebay and bid for daylilies and brugmansias.

11 … you get all your ebay garden purchases delivered to work so your OH doesn’t discover your new found love of brugmansias.

12 … you have to plant your secret ebay purchase at night and rehearse excuses why your OH hasn’t noticed the 7 foot Torbay Palm next to the front door before.

13 … you nearly strangle yourself walking into the garage by the pairs of tights strung up storing onions and plant pots.

14 … you take photos of bags of compost and post them on GardenersCorner thinking someone else will be interested (sadly they are!).

15 … you move your seedling trays around the house at various times of the day to catch the best sunlight.

16 … colleagues at work poke fun at your dirty fingernails but go strangely quiet when you get out your swiss army knife to scrape them out.

17 … you set up a webcam in the garden with a live feed so you can check your plants from the office.

18 … your internet favourites are GardenersCorner and all the weather channels.

19 … you are the only person that looks happy when told the office is closing and everyone is being relocated again after only 6 months, because it means you can take home the office plants.

20 … your dinner party friends politely stifle yawns as you lecture them on which home-grown veg you are proudly serving up.

21 … you open the shed door and dozens of 6 foot bamboo canes fall out.

22 … you go on holiday and drag your reluctant OH into garden centres on the pretext of lunch but really just want to check out the plants.

23 … you holiday abroad and waste half a day in a nursery failing to arrange shipping of some totally unsuitable massive palm back to the UK.

24 … you buy your OH an iphone so they can take photos of your plants and put them on facebook for you to look at while you are away on business.

25 … you bring spare seedlings that you can’t bear to throw away into work and keep them on the office windowsills.

26 … you go in to work every day to check on your seedlings, even though you have two weeks off.

27 … you’re in the garden and it’s too dark to see anything and your OH comes up with a torch to tell you dinner is getting cold.

28 … you start being nice to the horsey colleague in case you can get some free manure.

29 … you have no shame in wearing one of those plastic headscarves Granny used to wear and grabbing a torch to check your seeds before you go to bed and you are a bloke.

30 … you spend a whole weekend cleaning out and stacking into size order your old plant pot collection.

31 … the amount of lawn in your garden gets smaller and smaller by the year until you consider not having one at all and changing it all over to beds and borders.

32 … your colleagues can name every plant you're growing, but haven't got a clue what your OH is called.

33 … you buy food at the supermarket because the packaging looks like it will make a useful small propagator.

34 … all your work colleagues have screensavers of their kids/grandkids on their PCs, you have a comprehensive slideshow of your garden/allotment.

 

And what's wrong with that??:WINK1:

 

That's a very interesting bag of compost Ziggy :-)

 

49. You take photos of your bog roll tube collection and post them on GC.

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/tips-for-growing-parsnips.39165/page-5#post-603135