What my dumb husband did

17 years ago

Saturday my husband was standing in the kitchen, chopping something on the cutting board. I asked "What are you doing?" And he said"Cutting up these potatoes that sprouted." What-I didn't buy any potatoes. Those are my crocus bulbs I was going to plant. He had decimated the 24 bulbs I bought. I screamed at him to stop, but he had already chopped up three quarters of them. The next day, Sunday, The Sheepish One helped me plant the few survivors. He did all the digging. We also planted all the cut-up pieces, maybe some of them will survive. He did offer to buy me some more bulbs. Should I take him up on his offer?

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OklaMoni
17 years ago
awwww, wasn't he ever helpful? :)

Sorry that happened. I was clever enough to put a flower bulb sticky on the container holding my "naked lady" bulbs.

I would take him up on buying some more, and get plenty, and then let him dig the holes for these too!

Moni
gardenspice
17 years ago
Oh my. When I read the title of your post I thought "well, that is harsh". After reading what he did, I completely understand!
Yes, absolutely let him buy some new bulbs. (And keep them out of the kitchen!!)
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socks
17 years ago
Well, yeah, you were a little harsh. Better be kind because you might pull a blooper next!! LOL! It is funny, though.
dilly_dally
17 years ago
Someone posted a nearly identical story here about her husband chopping up irises(?) or crocus(?) thinking they were scallions.
cherbo
17 years ago
Too funny!
Happy_Go_Lucky_Gayle
17 years ago
OMG!
Gayle
loggerbaby123
17 years ago
that is hysterical lol im sorry, but my ex my now best friend for over 20 years, once started chopping dandelion bulbs for garlic....good thing i thought to look lol so i can honestly say i see where youre coming from sorry i still think its funny, and yes have him get you more bulbs.
User
17 years ago
The moment I saw the title I knew this would be funny - most men are funny! LOL

Yes, get some more bulbs. He meant well.
judy_jay
17 years ago
I can totally see my DH being "helpful" & doing the same thing. Funny - but not so much when it happens to you. Yes, definitely, take him up on his offer to get more.
zeetera
17 years ago
I needed that laugh. Sorry. But a cute story that hopefully you'll laugh at one day too.
caflowerluver
17 years ago
Good thing you caught him before he served them for dinner, crocus (Colchicine) is a powerful poison. Hope they all sprout and if not that he buys you more.
Clare
joann23456
17 years ago
Sounds like the story my Mom used to tell. As a young bride, she tried to "help" my father weed his vegetable garden - and ended up pulling all the seedlings!

Ah, well, they're only flower bulbs ...
majaco
17 years ago
Oh my!! that is funny!!
caroline94535
17 years ago
"Should I take him up on his offer?"

Not just, "Yes!" but "Hecka, Yes!" You better take him up on his offer.

If my DH pulled such a stunt he'd be planting the survivors, and buying more bulbs, and planting them, and digging a new grden bed, and planting it, and putting in a water feature, and building a stone garden path, and...., and...., and....

It is (or will be at some future point) a funny story, but you know he must pay for the transgression so it's not repeated! LOL
izzie
17 years ago
How in the world could bulbs be mistaken for potatoes?Very funny. About 1 year after DH and I were married he decided to make homemade soup. Couldn't find a pot big enough (We had one just didn't look very hard) He found my crock pot and took the ceramic inside out to use as pot. When I can home I found him mopping up soup from the floor, inside of stove and oven. Of course the slow cooker liner cracked and soup went everywhere. He likes to make dinner once a week but the disaster he leaves behind...He uses so many pots and pans to make something simple. He reminds me of the kid on Peanuts that always has a cloud of dust around him, just so messy.
loggerbaby123
17 years ago
im sorry i meant daffodils not dandelions lol
susanjf_gw
17 years ago
as expensive as bulbs are? for sure!
barb_from_pa
17 years ago
How funny! Yep - take him up on the offer for more bulbs and send him outside with the shovel!
brody_miasmom
17 years ago
I wonder how they would have tasted?
User
17 years ago
crocus bulbs are so tiny. How did he mistake them for potatoes?