Comments on: Top Ten {Reasons I Don’t Garden}

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:50:36 +0000

I’ll just ditto every single point you made!! LOL

By: Alexia

Alexia — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:27:30 +0000

Okay, I have to say that I love you right now LOL You don’t make me feel as bad for not gardening. I’ve tried it a couple times and I HATE pulling the weeds. And I really don’t like being outside either.

And can I also say that developments with ridiculous rules are just…ridiculous? LOL I don’t understand how a garden can blend….

By: mzzterry

mzzterry — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:10:23 +0000

confession. i can’t even keep my herb garden alive. believe me i have tried. every.single.year.

i can not count the number of houseplants i have killed. to call my thumb black is a compliment. i did plant a tiny garden one year. it was great joy to grow a few scrawny tomatoes and bell peppers, even a couple of squash! i loved it, but it really wasn’t a great success. the amount of $$, time and water i put into it weren’t equal to my scrawny yeild, but i did feel like mother earth and i were on some kind of speaking terms…it was fun while it lasted!

By: Jo-Lynne

Jo-Lynne — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:41:54 +0000

Beth at Total Mom Haircut is doing a series of posts on beginning gardening!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:41:39 +0000

Good to know! I keep thinking and thinking and thinking about starting a garden, but the whole thing intimidates me. I think I need a gardening mentor.

By: Jo-Lynne

Jo-Lynne — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:55:28 +0000

Well hello! Welcome to the blogosphere. I’m so glad you found me and got up the nerve to leave a comment.

By: Hena

Hena — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:52:33 +0000

I am almost nervous writing to you- I am so new to blogging (a week old) and stumbled on to your blog trying to make sure I was using ‘musing’ correctly in a sentence. You make it look so easy and have inspired me. God bless you- I became a subsciber!

By: DeAnn

DeAnn — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:53:41 +0000

I also have a black thumb. If someone every gives me a plant I just shake my head and think, “this poor thing doesn’t stand a chance.” My friends also know not to give me those, “friendship bread” recipes…I kill those too. We did our first raised bed garden last year. My husband put up a tall, wire fence to keep out the deer. Some things worked, some didn’t. We grew sugar snap peas–they were so yummy. It was amazing just to pick them off of the vine and eat them. We only got a few tomatoes but nothing compares to home-grown. One night we had a salad of green leaf lettuce, sugar snap peas and tomatoes–all from our garden It was the best salad I’ve ever eaten. Give it a try…sometimes things work and sometimes they don’t, but it’s harder to kill these plants, than it is flowers and other landscaping.

By: Jennifer Allwood

Jennifer Allwood — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:02:00 +0000

So a few years back I thought I would do a garden. I was hoping to grow sugar snap peas and eat them right off the stem like I used to at my grandparents house. The first day I saw one ripe enough to eat, I was so excited and thinking of my grandfather and bringing it up to my mouth……… and then saw the BABY SLUG on it! I about passed out. I had my neighbor boy weedeat the garden down the next day. No lie. I’m right there with you.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:51:22 +0000

I love it. I started it as an activity to get me outside with the kids because I hate outdoors too and I just love it. Planting something and watching it grow and then taking care of it…. kind of like being a mom without all the whining. But I don’t do the vegetables, my husband does those. I just do the flower beds.