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

61.You start painting bricks because you got the idea from the Victorian Garden at Harlow Carr...no squirrel is going to run off with these babies

 

62.

You start playing away on American Gardening forums

 

We only got another 5 recycling boxes from our neighbours when the council changed over to wheeled bins, but they have clip on lids and I got them for waterproof storage under greenhouse staging.

 

The pic is from Harlow Carr John....but i'm going to it

 

64. Your postman asks for a tour of the garden after delivering plants all year.
65. You come away from a routine visit to the doc. with old, unused urine collection pots, a couple of big syringes and an old metal cupboard, all for gardening use!
66. Your dogs/cats no longer look around the house for you but go straight outside.
67. You find yourself having long conversations with people about the merits of poo.

 

56(a) You continually update amount of saved sweet pea seeds - I now have 3,545 which may sound like a lot, but I wish I'd managed to save some more.

56(b) You never think you've saved enough seeds.

 

68. Instead of cutting lovely slices of your big beefsteak tomatoes to put in a sandwich, you pull them to bits so you can save the seeds in them to pass on to fellow gardening forum members.

 

69) instead of getting on with the dinner - thus letting to potatoes go into mush..
you are out there in the salvia border, rubbing farinacea heads together just to watch another 100 seeds fall out of the chaff.
Fish and chips OK dear?
Jenny

 

70) You accept random plant gifts from friends and ESPECIALLY Mothers-in-Law, and do your best by them, and the mother-in-law...

 

71) You're outside in a howling gale and you just HAVE to get some string and tie up those severely leaning sprouting broccoli plants before you go back indoors.

 

Thought I would bring this thread up again so that new members might read it and also because I have definitely got another one!!! I can't believe I actually did this!

72) You look inside the airing cupboard and try to figure out how you can squeeze yourself inside and shut the door to check that it is dark enough for the viola seeds.