Mine asked what I wanted.

I said "Nothing."

He said, "I would buy you another shovel."

I laughed and reminded him that I had just received one, and had a shovel and fork still on backorder from Lee Valley Tools. He said he knew that, but he would buy me another. We got a new catalog from them this week and he spent about an hour going through it, then told me it was going to cost us some money. LOL I don't know what he found that he liked, but I do know he is very impressed with the shovel that I have already received.

I'm considering small hand tools. LOL

How about a pair of Felco pruners, Carol? They would be on the top of my list for tools. I may just go for it and buy a pair this year. I can get them locally here in OKC.

Your hubby is so sweet, Ezzirah. Did you tell him which seeds you'd like?

Susan

I don't remember what my DH had done, but he felt the need to apologise. He took me to Lowe's and bought me a garden hose! It was the best apology gift ever!

Good hubbies!

Mine is the same way. We don't really buy into the Valentine's Day thing but, other holidays, he knows better than to waste good money on cut flowers, candy, and jewelry.

Diane

We don't do much for valentine's day, either, but for our first wedding anniversary, I got a garden cart!

We just got back from town where we bought more seed. Sugar snap is oun of the seeds we bought. I told DW I was going to start them on the 14th and that she could have a pea in a cup for Valentine's Day. She was not impressed.

Larry

I like the way you think, Larry.

Dale

I wonder if the husbands of us gardening gals feel lucky or frustrated. Candy, flowers and jewelry might be easier for them to buy than the gadgets we really want. If it ever warms up, I'm getting a greenhouse. IF....

SNORT!!!

I TOLD my Dh that I was bying two pyramid trellises last year for mother's day.

My fortieth birthday (!!!!) is coming up...I think I should get all kinds of compsosite and gravel. How romantic.

Jo

My husband said the Christmas that he bought a power saw, his friends thought it was a joke, because they thought it was for him. They said, "What, she didn't need a new gun?"

This is such a funny topic. Tim has bought me gardening-related gifts for so long that I'm not sure I can remember a time when he didn't. At our house, the last time he bought me cut flowers probably was when our son was born, and that was 20-something years ago.

When the guys at work are talking about holiday or birthday gifts and moaning and groaning because their DWs have made it clear they want jewelry or career-type clothing or shoes or even a new car, Tim just snickers. He considers himself a lucky man because he has a wife who wants things he understands, like tools, manure, seed, gardening boots, fencing, a new shed, etc. Since we moved to the country and enlarged our garden thanks to having more space, we've traded in shopping at malls for shopping at Tractor Supply, other feed stores and nurseries. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if we never step foot in a mall again.

A husband who understands that his wife truly wants gifts related to her hobby, whether it is gardening or woodworking or hunting or whatever, is a husband who really "gets it". Non-gardeners never understand though. At a retirement party a couple of years ago, the wife of one of Tim's co-workers was showing me the new diamond ring she got for Christmas. I tried to show enthusiasm for her new ring and admired it, but what I was really thinking was something like this "For what he spent for that ring, she could have had 150 bags of Black Kow!". Of course, she could care less about bagged cow manure and I could care less about diamond rings. Different strokes for different folks!

If Tim can't find something I want in either the Gardener's Supply Company or Lee Valley Tools catalogs, then he just isn't paying attention because I leave them lying around in prominent places with things I like circled and marked with stars or asterisks. At our house, that's known as a "hint".

Dawn

The first Christmas we dated, Seedpapa bought me a compound mitre saw and a pair of diamond earrings. Guess which was my favorite?

If you are like me, the diamond earrings are in the safe, and I've gone from the radial arm saw to a table saw. I couldn't do without my mitre saw. LOL

mine got me more shop lights for valentines day so's i can have more growing shelves inside.:) i do love that man. i agree, dawn, you're a lucky woman if you find a man who "gets it".

to me, the most romantic thing in the world is him caring about and being interested in the things that make me happy.

I have laughed out loud through this whole thing!

I have wanted a table saw for a while now, being the accident prone person I am, I doubt he will get that. But since I have gardened all of this year and last it has been stuff from home depot and not the mall and I could not be happier for it. I remember last year I was out in the garden and I spent probably 200 bucks on wood and he was talking to some of his friends about me being in home depot every chance I got and how I was spending too much on hardware. His friends started joking with him about how he sounds like "the wife" and me the "typical husband". Just when he was protesting being labeled that to his friends I called out from the back, "what's for lunch honey?" He has never lived that one down! (and would kill me if he know I told anyone!)

Just before Jerreth and I got engaged I presented her with my twenty gauge shotgun, my very first gun. She was absolutely thrilled. Later I told her that was tantamount to an engagement. I HAD to marry her not to lose that gun ;)

Yesterday she told me that, for Valentine's Day she doesn't want anything but to be picked up, half an hour early from work, and for the two of us to visit the local gun store to look at reloading supplies.

Garden tools are often gifts from her to me. One year my birthday present was a shipment of ducklings.

George

Ezzirah, we're getting another Valentine's gift from Craig. He's mailing out our seeds tomorrow for the Dwarf Tomato Project! Yea! Wonder if he timed that for the occasion? Hmmmmm.

I'm anxious to see what I get. When he asked for preferences, I just told him to send what was most needed since on his list he had several "high priorities".

Just in time for seed sowing, too! Sometimes the best gifts are so simple and inexpensive.

Susan

Susan - I have had issues getting on the site, I am going to try again today and see if I log in, it was saying that my system would not accept the cookies from the site, and that is not true. I will give it another shot.

That is a curious timing isn't it???

Were you able to get your address to Craig? If not, PM me and I will pass it on to him.

Is your Privacy setting on LOW or to ACCEPT ALL COOKIES?

If not, you can go to TOOLS, choose INTERNET OPTIONS, choose the PRIVACY tab, and then change your setting to LOW or ACCEPT ALL COOKIES, and then I would reboot and bring up the website again and see what happens. All this does is allow your system to accept the website's cookies. That's one option.

Another option is to do all of the above, except click on SITES (another option instead of changing your privacy level), then enter the web address of Tville (I usually bring up Tville's website and just copy and paste the address in the box indicated), then click ALLOW, then OKAY. Then you don't have to allow cookies from OTHER websites, you can choose which ones you want to allow. This is the one that I chose.

If you've already done either of these, the question is moot, and I don't know what to do. Maybe someone else will. I'm not that computer savvy, except to type on it, LOL!

I had forgotten I had to do that, too, with Tville's website. Hope it helps, though.

Susan

This morning I gave a surprise gift to DW, she is very happy to see a terracotta pot with tuberose flowers!!!

I got tuberose bulbs from www.tntuberoses.com, even though I did order only 20 bulbs ($14.95) but Sherry is very kind, have send me many extra bulbs. I have planted those bulbs in 5g pot and inserted few artificial tuberoses in the pot, my DW is flat to see that pot... Last year she got 20 rose garden. I hardly gave her cut flowers, but always some living plants! -Chandra

Chandra, I much prefer living plants to cut flowers and always have. I think it is a wonderful gift. I bet she is so excited to see them bloom!

How kewl!

Susan

One of my friends posted a pic of gorgeous Valentine bouquet her husband got her on Facebook,....I was thinking "meh, it will be dead in four days, I'd rather have seeds".

Jo