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Annual salvia and Centradenia at Ace Hardware- grrrr
Comments (6)smilie said, "I never ask a big box store employee a question because they rarely know what they are talking about. Especially any chewing gum :)" This is sorta off-topic, but it reminds me of a trip I made to Home Depot last week. I was in the garden center checkout line with the latest roll of green vinyl-coated chicken wire to protect my baby perennials from the rabbits. When I got to the register, the clerk asked me if that's what goes over strawberries to keep the birds out! I answered, "no, it's what goes around flowers to keep the rabbits out. You're probably thinking of the plastic netting." But gee, he thought that hardware cloth was what you used to fence out rabbits, and he'd just suggested the chicken wire to a woman growing her first strawberry plants. Oy. Luckily for him, there was no one waiting to check out behind me, so I could take him back to the shelves to explain floating row cover, bird netting, and various fencing options. Meanwhile, I feel for that poor woman wrestling with 25' of chicken wire, trying to figure out how to drape it over her berry plants!...See Morewanna gripe?
Comments (19)OH BOY -- one of my favorite subjects. First off, thanks Tressa for opening up this forum for this subject. Secondly, it's too bad some people have decided that the griping of others is invalid. Everyone's gripe is valid and has merit. That includes Jamilyian's. Some nurseries ARE too expensive. To some people. That's why the boon in mass merchandiser garden centers -- they offer better pricing to people who buy based on price. Granted, many (not all) independent nurseries offer real service and innovative plant material and that kind of offering costs more money to offer. Hence the higher prices. But I'll be damned if I'm going to an independent garden center only to bump into marginally qualified salespeople and, worse, commodity plant offerings. They ARE too expensive. It's too bad so many of these independent nurseries do their darndest to compete on price with the mm's. To do that, they have to pay smaller wages (ending up with less qualified staff) and sell less-than-exciting plants. Before you argue with me, I DO know about SOME great independents. I use to be one. So, for those who want the smaller prices, DO shop at the mm's. Or, check into your community college to see if they offer any hort/gardening classes on plant propagation; now that's a kick. And you're welcome to gripe about the pricing at the independent nurseries. Thirdly, one of my biggest gripes is hearing complaints from people who buy plants on impulse. The concept of "right plant, right place" means you start with a place and then find the perfect plant for that place. You do your homework before going to the nursery. You're welcome to rationalize the romance and joy and thrill and adventure of "impulse buying" all you want. "Part of gardening", as the rationale goes. Just don't gripe about it. Wait a second, did I just try to invalidate others' gripes? Joe...See Moregripe...frustrations...
Comments (11)Beaver! Well, I never thought of that because I live in the inner city!! Sometimes I forget where y'all garden. Your pond must be LARGE! I am very familiar with Canada Geese poop. I'm Canadian :) Nice green slime, ah, good fertilizer. That's part of what makes your pond water so good for the plants!! I didn't amend my beds as much this past fall as I should have. I noticed a huge production difference so I immediately ammended more for early spring planting and again for the summer. Spring production and bug tolerance has increased dramatically and now summer is here, bugs galore but I can see a HUGE difference in plant health quality and vigor. Bugs were terrible in the straw I mulched with but a few sprinkles of diamotaceous earth has helped greatly. Cuke beetles are really annoying though and totally going to town on the squash. My beans are not the greatest at germinating this year. Perhaps birds are getting the seed (they stole every sunflower seed - I've had to germinate them in pots to stop that). I have planted limas twice and I look back where the seed was: no seed. It is going to be an interesting year!...See MoreGripes - let's air 'em!
Comments (7)I hate the cell phone drivers as well, but okay *gulp* I am a speeder:( but I NEVER EVER honk at anyone, and I never ride bumpers either, I just wait for a time when I can pass them, and I have issues being in the lane of incoming traffic (even if no one is coming at the time) so okay I am normally up to around 90 by the time I pass them (note* in a 65-70 zone, not a 35 or so) I do a lot of highway driving. I try to be a polite driver, but I am sure I have irritated some, I know most of it is the fact I do drive a 8 cyl, and it never seems happy unless it is cruising around 80 (Mustang) Now in town it is a whole nother ball of wax, I usually have other people hauling you know what around me, glaring at me with their hand glued to their ear. I don't have any tickets on my record and I do try to keep it that way but Another thing I do (boy I am really telling on myself here) is I get up to speed as fast as I can shift it to the speed (5 over is the most I ever do in town, I would die if I ever caused a wreck) but most every one else goes 55 in the 45's in town so that is probably why the police usually no more then spare me a glance. I did get warned the other morning, I was late to work on our hwy that has a 55 speed limit, there is a hill about a block from where I turn out, I was at about 62 when I crested the hill, and a state trooper was on the side of the road and he turned on his parking lights when I got close to him, oops! I went 55 all the way down the rest of the hwy (with a car so close to my bumper I almost could not see his headlights I might add) Okay, Okay here is my gripe, people that visit in the middle of the supermarket aisle and ignore you even after you have said excues me (DH will go a head and move their cart over himself which gives me fits as a lot of the time the persons purse is sitting in the front of the basket and I sure don't want them thinking he is trying to snatch their purse) it is really bad at our main big box store, you can never find a parking spot (of course I always park in the gardening area so I can check out what is new in the tropicals, but DH has gotten wise to this) He parks in the automotive part, it is always insane at that store, and people are just so rude even if they aren't conversing they keep their cart right in the middle, so if it is just me I do a lot of turning around and going all the way around to get what I need. I always say I am going to boycott, but darnit it is convenient and they know this....See More- last month
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