Garden Resolutions I'll NEVER Keep(zt)
- I'm going to get everything staked and supported next spring before it's too big to stake and/or support.
- I will NOT still be planting bulbs after Thanksgiving because they were "on clearance".
- I'm going to cut back on my plant buying (and planting).
- I'm not going to purchase any more pots just because they are "pretty".
- I won't fall in love with any more classes/orders/families/genera of plants.
- I won't order more seed than I have time and space and energy to plant.
- I won't impulsively buy pretty flowers that I know won't grow here.
- I won't allow thugs to take over, just because they are actually alive and growing.
- I will finish what I started!
- I will not stop by the greenery department when visiting home improvement centers or grocery stores.
- I will throw away all of the trimmings as I have already a propagated more than I have room for.
- I will no longer save seeds and pot them up just because.....
- I will start keeping a garden diary.
- I will not buy any more manure.
- I will not just throw things in the garage so it becomes a big mess that I have to eventually clean.
- I will not wear my good sneakers in the garden while I am planting.
- I will not plant perennials close together in the spring while they're still so small, completely forgetting how big they'll get.
- I will not use regular small scissors for deadheading and pruning.
- I will not go out to garden in the morning "just for a minute" in my nightgown.
- When I move a plant I will record that somewhere.
- I will not plant things that need full sun in half sun.
- I will not go out "just for a minute" and then work for 4 - 6 hours until my bad shoulder and bad hip force me to stop, then can't work at all for the next week.
- I will not plant so many things not hardy in my zone (dahlias, cannas, crocosmias, salvias, etc.) that I have to dig up and store for the winter.
- I will wear gloves. And I will always lavish my hands with hand cream before starting my garden day.
- I will stop bringing cutlery out of the house to use in the garden.
- I will never again lose a wineglass in the bed I'm weeding "for just this minute."
- I will pick the strawberries before the dogs eat them.
- I will never plant another mint.
- I will maintain a complimentary color scheme.
- I will stop collecting seeds from plants from which I already have a pint jar full.
- I will transplant everything in the nursery bed before the snow flies.
- I will use up the mountain of woodchips in the back yard that the public works dept. unloaded in June.
- I will weed everyday.
- I will take my camera out with me whenever I work in the garden.
- I will mow once a week. (ha! Ok, more than once a month...)
- I will NOT deadhead at the garden center or other peoples' plants!
- I won't go out into the garden in my stocking feet. I'll either put on shoes or go out barefoot.
- I will stop weeding in public places and nursery containers.
- I will stop "rescuing" clearance plants from the local Big Box stores because I feel sorry for them and know I can make them well again.
- I will never again buy a new flower/tree/shrub until I have a place for it in the garden.
- I will grow my fingernails long and paint them red.
- I will wear shoes every day.
- I will never ever again spray my husband with the garden hose.
- I will no longer purchase seeds, period!
- I will never start 10 seed trays (700 seedlings) unless I can plant them ALL or give them away to needy gardeners.
- I will allow my plants more than one season to prove their worth before shovel pruning them.
- I will not sever the cable wire for the 4th time
- I will never pay for dirt again
- I will never post on the trade forum again
- I will never kill another spider
- I will never go out after dark with a flashlight to admire all my 'babies' growing up.
- I will care what my neighbors think when I'm outside obsessing over my garden schemes for long periods of time.
- I will never again mow my yard at 8:30am on Sunday morning in retaliation against my neighbor mowing his at 10am on Saturday.
- I will smile and wave to the people that let their dog crap in my yard on their daily walk.
- I will no longer stare out my window at night to admire my ornamental grasses swaying in the wind under the moonlight, while appearing to be stalking my neighbors' every move.
- Finally, I will never talk to my favorite plants again.
