alas have done all these things as well, once lost a really good well-made trowel that I'd had for years in the space of a few inches where I was planting. bought a new one that wasn't as well made but did same job only to find the original one a few years later that I'd also planted alongside a few perennials that I wanted moved to another part of the garden !!!
At the start of each new season I vow to take more care of where I am putting things down but then completely forget when I get engrossed in weeding/planting, there no hope I'm afraid
I've got a trowel which I inherited from a neighbour 20 years ago, it must be 80 years old but it still doesn't know any better it keeps getting lost, senile or something.
Sanjy67 there is a school of thought that skunk (the smoking kind) aids the memory so perhaps we should help the fight to legalise it? At we wouldn't get annoyed with ourselves when tools go walk-about.
never let anyone loose in your garden who claims they know gardening, I let a friend loose on an empty bed to weed totally and came back half an hour later to find her weeding the next bed of all the newly emerging beetroot and radishes!!!
we have a saying at work, nothing destroys a site quicker than a well meaning volunteers!!
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who loses tools and forgets to label plants. My husband always tells me to label but I usually say I know what I have planted then, as they come through in spring / summer ?????
Although thinking it was my fault when our telescopic loppers went amiss last July, after searching everywhere with no success we thought we will have to buy new ones, he just found them last week on top of the hedge when giving it an early trim,
loaning tools to neighbours that then come back blunt or worse still mangled and need either new blades or a good hour on the grinder!!! (The problem is you know they haven't the foggiest what they have done, and you are too nice to say and make them feel bad!)
lending tools from neighbours and they always bloody break!!! I borrowed a couple of years back one of those spear and jackson root-weed pullers from a neighbour, low and behold I had broke it in 10mins lol!!! Ended up buying one to replace it, and kept the semi-broken one!!!
Too many things to add, such as.. putting seedlings on senile cats favourite windowsill/ greenhouse spot, remembering to open windows/greenhouse on sunny day, forgetting to move plants, finding a) smug senile cat laying on the seedlings or b) finding whole seed trays on the floor, then shouting at senile cat in the vague hope even though he's stone-deaf that something will get through!!!!
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alas have done all these things as well, once lost a really good well-made trowel that I'd had for years in the space of a few inches where I was planting. bought a new one that wasn't as well made but did same job only to find the original one a few years later that I'd also planted alongside a few perennials that I wanted moved to another part of the garden !!!
At the start of each new season I vow to take more care of where I am putting things down but then completely forget when I get engrossed in weeding/planting, there no hope I'm afraid
I've got a trowel which I inherited from a neighbour 20 years ago, it must be 80 years old but it still doesn't know any better it keeps getting lost, senile or something.
Sanjy67 there is a school of thought that skunk (the smoking kind) aids the memory so perhaps we should help the fight to legalise it? At we wouldn't get annoyed with ourselves when tools go walk-about.
never let anyone loose in your garden who claims they know gardening, I let a friend loose on an empty bed to weed totally and came back half an hour later to find her weeding the next bed of all the newly emerging beetroot and radishes!!!
we have a saying at work, nothing destroys a site quicker than a well meaning volunteers!!
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who loses tools and forgets to label plants. My husband always tells me to label but I usually say I know what I have planted then, as they come through in spring / summer ?????
Although thinking it was my fault when our telescopic loppers went amiss last July, after searching everywhere with no success we thought we will have to buy new ones, he just found them last week on top of the hedge when giving it an early trim,
(I don't do hedges!!!!)
loaning tools to neighbours that then come back blunt or worse still mangled and need either new blades or a good hour on the grinder!!! (The problem is you know they haven't the foggiest what they have done, and you are too nice to say and make them feel bad!)
lending tools from neighbours and they always bloody break!!! I borrowed a couple of years back one of those spear and jackson root-weed pullers from a neighbour, low and behold I had broke it in 10mins lol!!! Ended up buying one to replace it, and kept the semi-broken one!!!
Too many things to add, such as.. putting seedlings on senile cats favourite windowsill/ greenhouse spot, remembering to open windows/greenhouse on sunny day, forgetting to move plants, finding a) smug senile cat laying on the seedlings or b) finding whole seed trays on the floor, then shouting at senile cat in the vague hope even though he's stone-deaf that something will get through!!!!