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Gardening crimes.

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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In the spirit of  informing new gardeners, I suggest this thread so that they might avoid the mistakes, through ignorance, we perpetrated in our youth.
I blocked off access to a leafcutter bee nest.  The bees were going into a redundant toilet cistern overflow pipe. I imagined a huge nest of bees living in the cistern and just waiting to come out and get me. I still feel bad about it.
Admittedly at the time, there was a media frenzy about masonry bees (?) that would eat through your house by next Tuesday😱
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Trying to grow things that don’t like my soil and trying to change the soil to suit,  it never works.  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    B3 said:
    there was a media frenzy about masonry bees (?) that would eat through your house by next Tuesday😱
    Nomen est omen 😂

    I ♥ my garden.

  • WaysideWayside Posts: 845
    Another wildlife crime here, put the rake through a slow-worm.  And I'm a very gentle gardener, I normally check heaps and what not before moving.  I also put a spade through a bee's underground nest that didn't end well for me.
  • SalixGoldSalixGold Posts: 450
    Spending hundreds of pounds over decades direct sowing seed without keeping them assiduously watered. Such a vast waste of money, seed and hope.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Asking OH to help with the weeding.  He just blitzes everything so in Belgium I had the most expensive compost heaps ever and he's not improved much here if he sets to in the ornamental beds.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @SalixGold. You can gain some comfort from the fact that something ate the seeds. For the purpose of this exercise, we will assume that it wasn't a rodent.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • robairdmacraignilrobairdmacraignil Posts: 782
    Went to dig up some Jerusalem artichoke one morning to find I put my fork through a frog. It was still alive when I took the fork out of it but feel guilty that it might have been fatally injured or at least had a very sore leg. Like having frogs in the garden so managed to avoid injuring any of them since then.
    Happy gardening!
    https://www.youtube.com/user/sustainableveg/videos
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Men who go from door to door offering to prune trees. They usually have no idea, do it at the wrong time, and everything ends up lollipop shaped.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Never trust one that explains what they intend to do in percentages, as in your tree needs reducing by 50% and we will charge £XXX
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Jess91Jess91 Posts: 159
    edited June 2023
    Tried to plant numerous acid and shade loving plants in full sun in my very probably alkaline soil, in my garden in vine weevilsville. Shockingly, they all died 🤔

    Well no actually, the pieris survives. But I'm doomed to feed it a monthly ericaceous feed for forever more.
    Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
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