How to Identify Gardeners in New Jersey

onthebrinck

13 years ago

If someone tells you they are having a great summer, they are not a gardener!

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vetivert8
13 years ago
'Aren't we having a gorgeous summer! It hasn't rained for weeks! We've stopped mowing the lawn.'

(You have lawn?! With an attitude like that I was sure you had wall to wall concrete...)

onthebrinck - they're a worldwide species, the non-gardeners. And they wouldn't notice weather/climate change until they couldn't wash their cars. Sigh.
gardenweed_z6a
13 years ago
Got an email from a friend who says this is the "perfect" summer. Her idea of gardening is 4 containers of coleus every year evenly spaced in front of her house.

'Nuff said.
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tracey_nj6
13 years ago
How to identify a gardener in NJ...
Definitely the people complaining that they want rain.
rusty_blackhaw
13 years ago
I can usually tell the New Jersey gardeners at a garden show.

They're the ones following you too closely. ;)
MissMyGardens
13 years ago
I don't really know if I'll ever be a "happy" gardener. In any given year it's always going to be too dry, too wet, too many critters eating everything but the lawn, too hot, too cold...

Once you have gardens you tend to notice everything a whole lot more than you did before...LOL.

And if we're following too close behind you at a garden show it's because we just HAVE to see the Zone 7 plants that we just can't have no matter how many times we drool over the pictures online! :)
agardenstateof_mind
13 years ago
There's a good chance the gardener is from NJ is they check to see whether it's an odd or even numbered day before watering during a dry spell.

Newbie, I think you're right about noticing a lot more - I hadn't thought about that! However, there is a goodly portion of NJ in USDA Zone 7 - C'mon down!

The great thing about gardening, wherever one does it, is there's always next season or next year ... one has got to be something of an optimist in order to garden.
mxk3 z5b_MI
13 years ago
Uh, I don't get it...

It *is* a beautiful summer! No rain for a few weeks so yea some plants are suffering, but it's gorgeous out there, especially in the evening. The joys of life entail more than gardening - I love to be outside walking, taking my dogs out, having the fresh summer breeze gently blowing through the open windows, it's even often a pleasure to to simply run errands on a sunny day. :0)
diggerdee zone 6 CT
13 years ago
Well, I'm not from Jersey, but I am on the east coast, and mxk, I'm jealous, lol! Out here it has been almost consistently 90 degrees daily for months, with high humidity, and a month of drought followed by a week or so of drenching thunderstorms and now another month of drought.

No fresh summer breezes here, lol. Just humidity hanging in the air, and dust kicked up in the air as you walk.

Can't wait for fall!

Where's Carl? Thought he'd be weighing in on this one...

:)
Dee

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