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I feel really stupid! I bought 6 pots of dwarf green beans today to plant in one container. AFTER I'd planted them I looked at the growing instructions _ "separate plants" jumped out at me. There were  6 plants in each pot! So instead of 6 plants I had bought 36!  Dashed out to buy more pots and re-planted them properly!
Just as well I've got plenty freezer space!
Please, please tell me I am not the only one who has made such a stupid mistake!

Don't worry!

I'm  on my second year.. and I've made so many mistakes! But I won't  make them them again.. The beauty of what we do is that we are always learning. If allotmenteers  tell you they don't make mistakes, then they are telling porkies! Enjoy  what you do... our allotments are wonderful, aren't  they? My children are learning alongside me..  Relax and enjoy!

Yes you are right! I am laughing at myself now!! I love beans anyway and gardening is a lot of fun and healthy!!

I can make silly mistakes pretty much whatever I'm doing :-[
Can't think of too many gardening ones yet, but I haven't been at this very long. Does planting onion sets upside down count?
If I buy plants, I nearly always manage to sever the top from the roots of at least one, trying to get them out of the pot. You'd think I'd have learnt after the first few.

My worst, though, have been dropping the kids off at various activities, and not collecting them afterwards. Honest, it's not deliberate!

Sally

Lol Sally! What a brilliant way to "lose" kids! Now why did I never think of that!
I expect that I will make many more blunders before I'm finished so I'll just have to get used to it!
Thanks for making me laugh!!

I once pulled up a whole bunch of re-emerging couch, before wondering why my leeks failed to germinate.

Don't worry, I came back from holiday and spent Sunday hoeing, I must have got a bit carried away as I realised at the end of the day I had hoed where my purplette pickling onions "were"...  despite having a label in the ground... Oops, need to resow now... the white paris ones sown at the same time are now just popping through the ground, so I must have hoed off all the purplette ones - I can see a few small ones dead on the surface  :-[

Oh, and out of all my shallots, I also planted one of them upside down  :-[ I only realised when one didn't appear when the others did, so I dug it up and found it starting to grow upside down! I quickly turned it over and it's happy now  ::)

Oh and Sally - I still remember Mum dropped me off at a Brownies day camp and never picked me up  ??? I waited for 2 hours before finding my own way home (I had never been there before and it took me over an hour) I was VERY upset and when I got home mum was out and I walked to the Brown Owl's house who looked after me until mum got home  >:( 

mat

I once had a phone call from school to say that I'd forgotten to pick up our five-year-old, as she was then. She was newly arrived in Britain, and the situation was pretty traumatic for all of us; becomeing an instant dad to two girls, one with no English and the other traumatised by being caught in a war is no joke! She was furious, inevitably.

Bought garlic sets and planted them without separating them, looked like shallots when they came up.

Hoed through my leeks.

once put weedkiller into my spray rather then liquid fertilizer (Doh...not good!)

the list goes on and on, but then we are only human. As long as we learn at each mistake

My mistakes are too numerous to mention, and as Clive says you are always learning -  especially by your mistakes!  :D busy_lizzie

My daughter went on a school trip to Germany and Poland at Easter. She left HUGE messages around the house to remind me to pick her up :-[

Sally

I own up to carefully potting up Rosebay Willow Herb, watering and tending it lovingly. I still blush.

Everyone makes mistakes, expert or beginner. Just put it down to experience. I admit that I make the same mistake every year - planting stuff too close together because the bare earth offends my eye (oh well, it takes all sorts to make a mess, right?).  ;)

Hi Jennym - yup, done that too.  had convinced myself it was a tall campanula...........

i once put me balaclava on backwards and spent the day thinking i'd gone blind..




actually thats not true i was being playful..... ::)

i have often been unable to sort out top  from bottom on things so have often planted 'sideways'....
caused no end of problems when i was changing our lads nappies......specially as he's 26 and can manage without.ahem...

hoed thru leeks.....pulled up cosmos seedlings....both'weeds' you see.... ::)
*sigh*its fun learning tho...even the hard way.....

My father-in-law, once spend ages carefully tending creeping buttercup, believing them to be strawberries.

i put 6 foot canes up alongside my broad beans ,expecting them to climb like runners  :o
they all died in the end anyway

I plant about 200 shallots every year and always manage to plant a couple upside down, some people never learn  ;)

I admit to carefully transplanting into a neat row some selfsown parsley, to find on using it that it was actually some sort of sour tasting umbelliferous weed ("fool's parsley?)

Husband snipped some chives over a salad and they turned out to be crocus leaves.

hi

Burried the shallots 5 inches deep!!! they're growing now though.

didn't check we had enogh netting to protect the brascicas, rabbits got the lot overnight.
Oh welll better that than boiled caterpillars on my plate!  :P ;)

Just 2 of many, and many more to come no doubt.... at least we laugh about it. ;D

P.