You know your an obsessive gardener when ...

Primrose

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

When you can't bear to waste a single seedling, even when you've grown too many, so you've plant spare tomato plants in your front garden between the rhododenrons!

When you check your pots for emerging seedlings before you even go and make breakfast.

When you use your binocculars in the house to try and see if the furthest plants away have started sprouting yet, when it's too cold to go outside and check.

When you've acquired about 10 free packets of Gardeners Delight seeds (each containing enough seeds for a lifetime's growing) and you can't bear to part with any of them in case you need them one day.

When you absolutely HAVE to throw a dying plant onto the Compost Heap and you virtually say a Requiem Mass for it because you feel so guilty you couldn't save it.

(And yes lilac-lady - I know exactly what you mean. I'm the same.)

thifty

when your kids idea of fun is a fast ride in the wheel barrow down the allotment hill! (yes they have been there a lot, is it because I want them to get lots of fresh air and learn a lot or that I love my hobby nearly as much as I love my kids? mmmh? i wonder)
when you clean out your hand bag to find a lighter (dont smoke, for lighting bonfires, hidden from kids), a runner bean seed, bit of string, a penknife and a scrap of paper with a seed variety scribbled on it instead of nice mirror, lipstick and hair brush!
when certain types of clothes in shops you would have never dreamt of going in previously look appealing as they would be ideal and comfy for gardening in (or maybe I'm just getting middle-aged)

misskool

you have to check the weather constantly waiting for a dry day

kippers

When...

No one in the house is allowed to throw out the inner tube from a toilet roll.

You don't want to go on holiday as your potatoes may need earthing up and frost is forcast.

Your friends/family rely on you for veg plants that you have spare as you have grown too many

Window sills (incl kids bedrooms) are crammed with seedlings and full of compost that that has dropped out the pots and water that has leaked out somehow on to your carpets

Every morning you check your seeds/seedlings before you do anything just to see if they are ok/germinated

If you have an allotment you find it is well organised and weed free, bulging with veg but your home garden is an unorganised mess because you have no time for it as you are always at your lottie

You toss and turn at night dreaming of parsnips and carrots (but you don't know why)

You keep your old grow your own/kitchen garden mags and get them out each month to re-read the month you are on

There is nothing you like more than to pick and prepare your homegrown veg and serve to friends and family telling them 20 times over that you grew the veg yourself and how much better for you organic homegrown veg is (even though they may have fallen asleep listening to details of your lettuce, parsnips germination problems, slug and snail problems and what you have growing in your plot)

I'll stop now before i start boring everyone on here as well

ERICS_MUM

You buy bottles of water & fizzy drinks knowing that you really want the empty bottles to protect young plants from slugs and snails. You then spend ages cutting off the bottoms to make them into mini-cloches.

You open the shed door and dozens of 6 foot bamboo canes fall out

You plan a morning's weeding and take a radio, can of coke, the cordless phone and sunblock out into the garden so you don't have to waste time going back into the house.

You go on holiday and spend ages looking at packets of seeds in the local supermarket or garden centre.

You don't like to give cuttings away, but always ask for cuttings from other people's gardens

You go mad at the garden centre and then struggle to get everything into the car - especially that tall clematis on bamboo sticks

Linda

Smoffi

When you have a veggie patch on the shed roof...

you start your seedlings off in the HOUSE

you are prepared to stand in the rain and think about how to run a hose around the greenhouse inside in order to make watering easier

morg_monster

When you go away for just 2 nights to a conference and leave DH with a list as long as your arm telling him exactly which germinating pots and trays to cover up at night, which go on the windowsill, which to water, when and how much, how often to turn the pots, which pots outside to bring in if it gets frosty (even though the weather isn't actually forecast to get that cold until you're home again).

He rolls his eyes, smiles and says "of course I'll do it dear...", you know he won't do any of it but it won't actually matter at all, your plants will be absolutely fine anyway!

And finally... you are really glad that you both now have iphones so that he can take photos of the plants and put them on facebook for you to look at while you are away. O. M. G.

And definitely agree with the "checking on your seedlings before you do ANYTHING else in the morning".

RebekahR

alanobrien wrote: »

eeerrrr, when you dont have any more room on any window cill to put anything on so you put a table in front of the window for the overflow and when the overwintered plants in the greenhouse are pushing out leaves and bending the roof but you dare not put them out yet because of frost.

I've over taken the bedroom window cill and now im to the office much to my husbands amusement!!

RebekahR

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

when you come home from work and first thing you do is water the plants before you feed the kids:cool::rotfl:

HAHAHHA Quality!!! I put all mine in the bath! I fill it a bit and leave them in all day then take out the plug at night and leave the water to drain and put them back in the window cill the following morning.

katholicos

RebekahR wrote: »

HAHAHHA Quality!!! I put all mine in the bath! I fill it a bit and leave them in all day then take out the plug at night and leave the water to drain and put them back in the window cill the following morning.

The kids or the plants?