Bizarre gardening lessons you have learned.....

peter_the_piper

I've tried all sorts of so called "permanent markers" which are all but. To date nothing beats a good old 2b pencil, lasts for years and easily corrected.

Rummer

If two of your brassica plants have unusual leaves they will actually grown into giant weeds!

Cauliflowers are nigh on impossible to pull up unless you are a superhero!

foreign_correspondent

seed companies must get their seeds mixed up sometimes - some tomato plants which were supposed to have black tomatoes actualy have bright yellow fruit!! ( I didnt buy any yellow toms so I know its not my labels mixed up in this case!)

foreign_correspondent

marrbett wrote: »

Chickens are stupid enough to peck through slug pellet containers and eat the contents,resulting in death!!!! Keep them well out of reach!!

.. so are dogs - aparrently one of the most common causes of fatal poisoning, so keep them in a very safe place - dogs have been known to eat through the drum to get at them...

MonkeySaving?

Don't eat yellow snow on the veg patch.

Rummer

Monkeysaving, that is sound advice!!

DKLS

When using 40 railway sleepers for raised beds:

Pay the extra £30 for delivery with crane, hand bailing 80Kg lumps of wood aint fun. Also note they need humping down the drive to end of garden.

Dont use a cheap cordless drill to screw them together, It will die, use a SDS at all times.

Dont even get the handsaw out, unless you want biceps like popeye, borrow neighbours chainsaw, and give them a tenner for a new chain :rolleyes:

Do NOT handle sleepers when wet, very slippy (thank heavens for steel toecapped boots)

Dont underestimate how much soil it takes to fill these things, and cheap soil = weeds and stones.

ALIBOBSY

Never let OH sow tiny seeds as he doesn't know the meaning of the words sow thinly. Then watch about 200 radishes go to seed as he can't eat them fast enough .

I know you are supposed to thin carrots, but I carefully sowed thinly and didn't bother. Got loads of lovely small and middle size carrots, just what we like and not thinning helps protect against root fly sniffing them out (no signs of any so far).

ali x

Volcano

DKLS wrote: »

hand bailing 80Kg lumps of wood

Sleepers may look like pieces of wood, but I think they're just concrete painted to look that way.

DKLS

Volcano wrote: »

Sleepers may look like pieces of wood, but I think they're just concrete painted to look that way.

Concrete covered lead more like :rotfl::rotfl: