Hot dog!!! Hand'em a shovel!!!

(Handy Hint -- Alt + 0176 = degree sign °)

J.D.

Good idea J.D.

That'll make em run!

Start by telling your daughter gardening makes people look younger and more glamourous. Tell the son how strong and handsome he is...THEN hand them a shovel! LOL!PJ

When......you're headed over to your parent's house to go out for your birthday dinner with the whole family and you're wishing that you could have saved the celebration for a rainy or cold day! The upside? LOL, the nursery center gift certificates!!! Bwaahaahaaahaaaaa!

What variety of Clematis would look nice with my Don Juan rose? Hehehe!

Kristi

When...........you've been invited to THE party of the season, and you don't want to go because it's a "good" day to plant seeds.

Janie, who lives by the almanac.

When your hubby buys you an expensive diamond necklace but you're sad because what you wanted was a new wheelbarrow.

When just about everything you purchase you ask, can I use this in the garden, can I wear this in the garden, LOL

"When your hubby buys you an expensive diamond necklace but you're sad because what you wanted was a new wheelbarrow." That is so me, except my DH would never buy me an expensive diamond anything - he knows me too well.

When you've given up going to the movies, even though you love to do that, because there's always something to do in the garden, and it's just too nice to spend a couple of hours in the dark with your hubby...at the movies, mind you.

Sally

When the absolute greatest wedding anniversary gift you ever got was a compost tumbler and when you get practically giddy when you find a free source for chicken manure!

When all your gift requests are for something useful or ornamental in your garden. When you feel more beautiful in your old work clothes with dirt all over you than dressed for a party.

When your DH wants to go camping over Spring Break and you'd rather stay home and work in the garden. What a bummer the oldest son has to work and you can't leave town after all. Bummer!

When your husband buys you a gardening book as a gift and you can't wait to read it.

When your husband knows that all you want for Christmas is a big pile of compost.

When your in-laws visit and you would rather be out working in the garden. (who wouldn't? hee-hee!)

When you go to your local home improvement center for a home fix-it project and you just have to stroll through the nursery area to see if there is anything new out there that you just can't live without.

When you have a huge pile of newspaper saved up for months in your garage waiting to start that new lasagne garden bed.

When you meet someone new and automatically think they want to talk about gardening with you.

When your mom gives you dirt as a graduation present.
When you look at the fruits and vegetables in the store to see what you can grow.
when you ask for a new red wagon for your birthday.
When you hang out on the gardenweb!
Tally HO!

when------ you're tilling the ground in the snow. ;)

WOW, akup, your a die hard gardener for sure.I'm not that brave to go the cold.
When heart is aching from the long winter months and your eyes are red from starring at to many gardening books, mags and garden shows on tv.
When you get a hundred dollar gift cert. for christmas and spend most of it on fert.
When you ask your husband can we stop by the nursery on the way home, even though you know it's to early to plant anything :)

Haha! Denisew....the whole going to the box store for home repair and going in through the nursery is sooo true.
Just today I was going to Wal Mart to grocery shop and of course where did I enter the store?? LOL

When....you are coming up on the third year of birthday celebrations from the first time you told hubby that you wanted a grill only to cop out and spend the birtday dough on plants instead. My friends actually have a bet going as to whether I will get the grill this year or not.

When your husband leaves a drill on your pillow Christmas morning instead of diamonds because he knows you have several garden projects that you want to start working on that require a drill ( new trellis went up last weekend)

When you wake up in the middle of the night and have to write down a new garden idea/plan that you dreamed about

When you get excited about finding several free bag of pine needles or leaves

When you drop something in your friend's outside trash can, spot a dead pot plant still in the pot & ask if she's nuts for throwing away a pot with good dirt in it.

Suzi

your computer automatically goes to Garden Web, Wildseed Farms, Parks, Johnny's, etc. 95% of the favorites in your bookmarks are seed sites, 4.9% is garden design/tools, .1% is DH's stuff. Bev

...you can't eat at the table because it's covered with tomato plants you brought in to protect from freezing.

...your 13 year old begs for a package of Leek seeds "just to see if they'll grow."

...your garden clogs are your favorite shoes.

Bev, you're husband gets some bookmarks??
roseyt I LOVE my garden clogs! And I'm not a shoe lover.
Susi, when you try and save the plant she threw out. I rescued some dracenea from the trash at work a few months ago, put them in the garden, they still had some green when I scratched the stems, they are now sprouting new growth! My garden is full of rescues.

When you carry a shovel everywhere you go, and not just to bury the bodies.
Tally HO!

My oldest grandson's eagle scout ceremony is Sunday.
Daddy called and said he and Mary are coming, Thursday, and driving the motor home.
My first thought was OMG, he's going to drive up here.
And my second was, dang it is just now getting warm enough to put plans out.

The good news is my step-sister and her husband will be driving them up here.

...you're pulling out of the driveway and you see a weed, so you stop the car to get out and pull it. :)

Choo - I'm with you buddy!!! (or buddy-ett)
J.D.

denisew, I'm so with you!

When hubby just grins when you ask if on date night, you can just 'stop by' the nursery section of the store (ALL stores-why shop elsewhere?)

My newspaper stack includes cardboard too-And doesn't everyone WANT to talk about gardening and tour the yard?

I know I've influenced my kids when they either run the other way when I bring home big plants to plant, or try to bribe me ('mom, if you get me such and such, I dig holes for you':) with help. And they are so tolerant when all vacations and out of town trips include a 'stroll' through the nurseries. CJ

When . . . you watch the short order cook throw away the eggshells from your morning omlet and want to ask him to save them for your compost.

"you're pulling out of the driveway and you see a weed, so you stop the car to get out and pull it."

Choo, if I did that, I'd never be able to leave the house :). Picture the newspaper headlines:

GRANBURY WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN DRIVEWAY

A Granbury woman was found dead in her driveway yesterday clutching a handful of dried up henbit (a common and prolific weed). It appeared that the woman was on her way out of the driveway and stopped to pull a weed. Investigators say that Mrs. Brooks was on her way to the grocery store and once the first weed was pulled, she just couldn't stop. This was evidenced by the 6 foot tall pile of pulled weeds at the edge of the driveway.

Family members say that her obsession with weed pulling was a frequent problem and that it had been 1 year since Mrs. Brooks had been able to leave her home. They would often visit only to find empty cabinets and an empty refrigerator so they began bringing groceries on a regular basis. Investigators found that the car had run out of fuel idling in the driveway with the driver's side door standing open.

A neighbor is under investigation for Mrs. Brooks' death. It was discovered that all of the seeds in Mrs. Brooks' collection had been secretly replaced with henbit seeds. She had inadvertantly been seeding all of her gardens with nothing but henbit.....

In remembrance, please send all donations to the Destroy The Henbit Fund of which Mrs. Brooks was the CFO.

Kristi, you are TOO funny !!!! That would probably be a fairly accurate description of me. Henbit is the one weed I pull as I am going from chore to chore -- that is why many of the chores never get done. One would think that eventually I would just learn to live with it.

Carrie, I've gotten to where I only pull henbit if it's getting mountainous in a spot where I don't want it. I have a little spot of it right now that is next to one of my raised beds and it's actually looking kind of nice there LOL. I'll pull it before it goes to seed though...I don't like it so much that I want it reseeding everywhere!

Kristi

Oh Kristi, I thought you loved it and it's too late to cancel the Henbit seeding crew that I sent your way, lol
If you catch them, you can redirect to Carrie's house, lol

Won't work, Jolana, Kristi doesn't know where I live. I would just send them to PJ's anyway.

Just change henbit to dollarweed and this could be MY obituary!
I kind of like henbit but it isn't a huge problem for me like the dollar weed.
Tally HO!

Tally, Jolana and I will be willing to send you a very generous start of henbit.

I don't have many, but I will be willing to add to the "generous" donation.

Me too, me too! I think that they both need a nice "wildflower" henbit meadow!!

Kristi

A couple of years ago I saw a pasture in full bloom. It was so pretty.

I agree, Kathy, as long as they are WAY out there.

Remuda1 I love that (ever fictional, I hope!) news article!

You know, we Texas GW people ought to put our heads together and see if we could come up with a money-making, environmentally friendly, successful species-specific herbicide product for henbit. (Uh-oh, I said it - too late!)

...when the rest of your family REFUSES to be in the same car with you and your spouse, riding or driving anywhere, no matter how short a trip and no matter who drives and who rides - because they can't stand the constant chatter about the plants and landscapes viewed along the way, and can't stand how all conversational paths lead back to...gardening!

...when a couple hours' drive out of Houston in any direction turns into a 6- or 7-hour adventure in wanderlust to stop, inspect, and sometimes "fiddle with" (not always in the best interests of safety or others, and not in ANY particular order even if planned): wild plants along the roads; other people's yards; public landscaped areas; wild and semi-wild woods, meadows and watercourses; and even railroads' and utilities' rights-of-way! (and all that doesn't even include the shopping!)

Your going to Lowe's and ask the wife if she wants to go, and she says," if you'll go straight there and back, and take any side trips to show me some plant in bloom that you have discovered!"
Jim

I happen to like henbit and dollar weed. I'd like something to eradicate johnson and dallis grass forever.

LOL Kristi

May she rest in peace.

The family of Mrs Brooks asks that all flower arrangements sent to the services contain no more than 10% henbit.