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My favorite funny thread (long):
Garden Heebie-Jeebies* Posted by Veronicastrum z5 IL (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 10:20 Okay all of you dedicated gardens, what things - plant, animal, other - give you the creeps in your garden? In another thread I posted about Rudbeckia hirta. I am on a mission to eradicate it from my garden, but suddenly have developed an aversion to the hairy stems. Creeps me out to grab 'em and yank. What does it to you?
* Posted by: Mad_Gallica Z5 NY (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 10:38
Large plants of purslane. Those fat, succulent stems that look like worms. Real worms don't bother me at all, but those fat red, stems. Ick. I know exactly what you mean.
* Posted by: LeeAnna z8 WA (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 11:15
Grabbing one of my one-gallon pots and feeling the slimy, boogery body of a big, fat slug with my bare hand. E Icky.
Spiders sometimes do it, too. Like when I'm standing in the middle of a bed weeding and I look down to see three daddy-long-legs climbing up my legs. Or the time I uncovered a big beetle the size of a quarter, picked it up to move out of harm's way, and eight legs unfurled. That was no beetle. Shudder.
* Posted by: Frizzle z6 PA (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 11:36
walking in sandles in the damp grass and scooping up a slug with the toe of the sandle but not realizing it until you have walked a bit more and smooshed it between your toes
* Posted by: Tiffy_z6aCan 6a (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 11:46
I have no aversion to picking up slugs with my bare hands. They make me sooooo MAD!!! But right now, I'm building another rock wall, and sometimes I pick-up a piece which has a slug underneath and in the process of lifting the rock, place my hand/fingers on the unseen slug and 'squish!' YUCK! As you can tell, I don't use gloves...
* Posted by: Artchik z5 IL (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 12:06
I am phobic about mice. Phobic to the point where any small mammal darting across my peripheral vision freaks me out. I actually screamed when I accidentally uncovered a rabbit nest in my garden bed a few weeks ago and a baby rabbit jumped out. Chipmunks scuttling behind shrubs make my heart race. My husband thinks I need therapy!
* Posted by: jboling Chicago area (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 12:07
Moving a large rock or other object that's been sitting in the same place for quite a while and seeing all the squirmy life underneath slithering away for cover. Doesn't happen often in my garden because I don't have too many stationary objects, so it must be a nightmarish memory from my childhood exploring days.
* Posted by: saucydog z5MA (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 12:10
I try not to look....but something sort of slithers through one of the beds I've been trying to weed.
I also don't like spiders, but I have those big "wood spiders" that look like tarantulas to me. E day I was potting things up for a swap, and it crawled out of the pot I grabbed. I threw the pot and ran in the house. When I came to my senses, I figured the spider had been just as horrified and moved on. I finished potting up.
I don't mind "things" being there, I just don't want to cross their path (and I'm sure they feel the same about the 50 ft. woman crossing theirs!).
* Posted by: Leslies z5 NY (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 12:23
There's a weed that resembles sweet woodruff with some kind of hairs on the leaves and stems that grab at your hands when your hands try to grab at the plant. Ick.
Once I found a REALLY ENORMOUS beetle with ENORMOUS pincer jaw things that looked like it had wandered out of the Amazon jungle. It freaked me out!
Poison ivy. I know it's just a plant and I've even survived the rash without dying, but when I see it in the garden, I give it about a 10-foot berth.
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My favorite funny thread (long):
Garden Heebie-Jeebies* Posted by Veronicastrum z5 IL (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 10:20 Okay all of you dedicated gardens, what things - plant, animal, other - give you the creeps in your garden? In another thread I posted about Rudbeckia hirta. I am on a mission to eradicate it from my garden, but suddenly have developed an aversion to the hairy stems. Creeps me out to grab 'em and yank. What does it to you?
* Posted by: Mad_Gallica Z5 NY (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 10:38
Large plants of purslane. Those fat, succulent stems that look like worms. Real worms don't bother me at all, but those fat red, stems. Ick. I know exactly what you mean.
* Posted by: LeeAnna z8 WA (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 11:15
Grabbing one of my one-gallon pots and feeling the slimy, boogery body of a big, fat slug with my bare hand. E Icky.
Spiders sometimes do it, too. Like when I'm standing in the middle of a bed weeding and I look down to see three daddy-long-legs climbing up my legs. Or the time I uncovered a big beetle the size of a quarter, picked it up to move out of harm's way, and eight legs unfurled. That was no beetle. Shudder.
* Posted by: Frizzle z6 PA (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 11:36
walking in sandles in the damp grass and scooping up a slug with the toe of the sandle but not realizing it until you have walked a bit more and smooshed it between your toes
* Posted by: Tiffy_z6aCan 6a (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 11:46
I have no aversion to picking up slugs with my bare hands. They make me sooooo MAD!!! But right now, I'm building another rock wall, and sometimes I pick-up a piece which has a slug underneath and in the process of lifting the rock, place my hand/fingers on the unseen slug and 'squish!' YUCK! As you can tell, I don't use gloves...
* Posted by: Artchik z5 IL (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 12:06
I am phobic about mice. Phobic to the point where any small mammal darting across my peripheral vision freaks me out. I actually screamed when I accidentally uncovered a rabbit nest in my garden bed a few weeks ago and a baby rabbit jumped out. Chipmunks scuttling behind shrubs make my heart race. My husband thinks I need therapy!
* Posted by: jboling Chicago area (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 12:07
Moving a large rock or other object that's been sitting in the same place for quite a while and seeing all the squirmy life underneath slithering away for cover. Doesn't happen often in my garden because I don't have too many stationary objects, so it must be a nightmarish memory from my childhood exploring days.
* Posted by: saucydog z5MA (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 12:10
I try not to look....but something sort of slithers through one of the beds I've been trying to weed.
I also don't like spiders, but I have those big "wood spiders" that look like tarantulas to me. E day I was potting things up for a swap, and it crawled out of the pot I grabbed. I threw the pot and ran in the house. When I came to my senses, I figured the spider had been just as horrified and moved on. I finished potting up.
I don't mind "things" being there, I just don't want to cross their path (and I'm sure they feel the same about the 50 ft. woman crossing theirs!).
* Posted by: Leslies z5 NY (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 03 at 12:23
There's a weed that resembles sweet woodruff with some kind of hairs on the leaves and stems that grab at your hands when your hands try to grab at the plant. Ick.
Once I found a REALLY ENORMOUS beetle with ENORMOUS pincer jaw things that looked like it had wandered out of the Amazon jungle. It freaked me out!
Poison ivy. I know it's just a plant and I've even survived the rash without dying, but when I see it in the garden, I give it about a 10-foot berth.
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