Better still - don't paint your fence. Don't buy a fence with orange stain even if theyre cheaper. If you get one that's a natural colour, it will fade to squirrel grey and it will go with anything. The squirrels on ours look like part of the fence so I can pretend the bggggrs aren't there.
Don't prune a huge ivy hedge without gloves on if it's full of sharp wire. You might nearly slice your finger and bleed all over the carpet and up the stairs. Know your hedge, take it gently. Or keep a first aid box by the fridge.
Update: ... also, don't futtle inside a halogen lamp trying to fit a new bulb in the dark (rather like trying to birth a calf), don't break the bulb and slice your hand badly, drip blood all over the floor and nearly pass out with blood pressure drop. Just hoping there is no glass inside the slice.
Ugg.. that sounds terrible @Fire. Â Gardening gloves are good for more than gardening. Â After slicing off the entire side of my finger up to the second knuckle from the finger tip cutting mat board, I now used my rose pruning thick leather gloves when cutting anything with a craft knife. Â Nothing hits your stomach like seeing a three inch strip of your finger laying on your white mat board next to the rest of your finger. Â
Don't listen to the famous gardener T. that you can ignore weeds in your lawn, because you mow it away. If you see one single creeping cinquefoil, and you ignore it, it's already too late. You have to dig creeping cinquefoil out immediately to make sure it hasn't spread. The problem is not what you see, but what you don't see: the root.
Don't constantly 'check' cuttings to see if they have rooted. You'll know when they have as roots show out of the bottom of the pot. More plants are killed with kindness than neglect. Along the same lines - if in doubt about whether something is alive or survived the winter or is a weed or not, just wait and see. Sometimes doing nothing is beneficial.
Don't constantly 'check' cuttings to see if they have rooted. You'll know when they have as roots show out of the bottom of the pot. More plants are killed with kindness than neglect. Along the same lines - if in doubt about whether something is alive or survived the winter or is a weed or not, just wait and see. Sometimes doing nothing is beneficial.
Words of wisdom I wish someone had told me ages ago. Also applies to bare root plants
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Don't buy a fence with orange stain even if theyre cheaper. If you get one that's a natural colour, it will fade to squirrel grey and it will go with anything. The squirrels on ours look like part of the fence so I can pretend the bggggrs aren't there.
Update: ... also, don't futtle inside a halogen lamp trying to fit a new bulb in the dark (rather like trying to birth a calf), don't break the bulb and slice your hand badly, drip blood all over the floor and nearly pass out with blood pressure drop. Just hoping there is no glass inside the slice.
I ♥ my garden.
More plants are killed with kindness than neglect.
Along the same lines - if in doubt about whether something is alive or survived the winter or is a weed or not, just wait and see. Sometimes doing nothing is beneficial.