The Wall Of Shame!! or..Hey! We Ain't Perfect!

Okay everybody, we all know what we've been hiding. Here's our chance to come clean, show the world what we're not proud of and just generally humiliate our little gardening selves.

Pictures are best, but if you just want to describe an epic fail, or one of the everyday common ones, that's good too.

My only problem will be picking the one to lead with....>>thinking hard..

I can't post a picture now because I really should have left the house 42 minutes ago. But I will, I promise.

Come on now, don't be shy, we're all in this together as they say!

First of all, I love that tag line!! This has been a bad year all the way around for my garden... but the dirty little secret I have is under my deck. The deck comes off the second floor of the house. Underneath it, becomes junk central. I have some lattice and grapes growing on the sides of this space (so no one can see it!) I store extra pots and gardening tools under there. At night while I sleep the pots and tools multiply. By the end of the summer, the space is practically useless! After we built the deck we filled the spot under it with rocks. Thinking they would keep the weeds down. Not so much! So, mixed in with all the junk are some very nice examples of mature weeds! I have to walk past this area to get to the chickens- each time I do, I think I really need to do something about that... maybe tomorrow.

FAIL!! Last year, early summer, you may remember I took a chance and bought a 2-pk of green pepper plants for a whopping nickel. I thought I might get them to come out of their slump if I treated them extra nice and babied them along. Well, by the time the frost got them they were perhaps 1/2 inch taller, even yellower than when I bought them, with about 3 leaves each. All my pampering got me nowhere. So much for my gardening skills. Major fail! And I totally lost my nickel!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhfacedeepinhandzzzzzzzzz...

That plant I was all excited about, thinking it was the miraculous 3 years underground DAHLIA tuber turns out to be something else. Add to that...whoaspiledonshames...I think it has something to do with why the blue speckled teparies growing right near it are stunted...

When I first bought my weekend house I had a real problem with snakes in the yard. I went out and bought a riding lawn mower, when it was delivered I filled it up with gas and jumped on. I had never riden one before, I headed for the pond to cut the grass along the shore where I seen the most snakes. I assumed the mower would steer like a car. It didn't the mower and I ended up stuck in middle of pond. I had to call a tow truck to pull the mower out, of course all the neighbors came out to watch. Was a very expensive lesson, I still have neighbors teasing me about it. PS I now have someone to cut the grass for me.

Can we just limit our failure reporting to one year? I'll be much shorter that way.

Broccoli never got much taller than when I put it out and bolted (can't really say headed) real early. So I trimmed off the tiny bits that headed, thinking maybe it wil grow and produce some more heads to eat on as if gets bigger. Nope. Absolutely worthless.

Cauliflower, about the same story. The plant did get bigger but never headed up worth booger snot.

Both were a total absolute waste of garden space. I don't know why. Spring was cool and wet. I thought that would be good for them. Nope. Cabbage was not great but did OK. Carrots, beets and green peas were great.

I can't thnk of a thing I did differently than I always do. I can't explain what happened except to say nothing good hapopened with those two this year.

Just thinking about the cucumber tunnel that I have to crawl though to pick anything (cukes or tomaotes) makes me claustrophobic. I'll NEVER plant those two within 100 yrds of each other again!!! Oh - and did I mention that once the cukes really got going the tunnel was only like 24" high!?!? Nearly had to belly crawl in there dragging my bucket behind me!! And lets not discuss how it got even worse because I couldn't use the weedeater in there so the grass got really tall......

Lots of fruits... total failure in the 'enjoy your garden' department....

What is left of my garden is a mess of weeds - I can't find my okra - I don't care - it's 100 degrees outside - can't wait until fall. . .

This year, I didn't get a chance to weed my large perennial bed at the front of the house. It is ridiculous!! Weeds taller than the bushes, etc. But to justify and make myself feel better. I have stated that I am just going to dig everything up and divide it anyhow in the fall. So why bother? Sounds good doesn't it?

Stubbornhillfarm said:

This year, I didn't get a chance to weed my large perennial bed at the front of the house. It is ridiculous!! Weeds taller than the bushes, etc. But to justify and make myself feel better. I have stated that I am just going to dig everything up and divide it anyhow in the fall. So why bother? Sounds good doesn't it?

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I had the samething happen I just call it a wildflower garden now!!