It seems that everyone is sending text messages and using online chat these days, even gardeners. You might be a gardening geek when it comes to texting and online chatting if… When you arrive at a garden center and find that the plants are on sale, you immediately text to your gardening geek pals, POS at the GC! You automatically figured out that GC stands for “garden center”. You text BRB WTP if you are leaving a chat session to “water the plants”. If someone texts you with WITP, you … [Read more...] about You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Texting Edition
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Gardening Geek: Labor Day Edition
Coleus 'Crimson Gold' You might be a gardening geek on Labor Day if... You plan to spend this bonus day off in your garden and hope it doesn’t rain even though you need rain and desperately want it to rain. You consider this weekend your drop dead date for ordering bulbs to plant this fall. Bonus points if you have already ordered bulbs but decided that because it is a three-day weekend, you should celebrate by ordering just a few more bulbs, just in case. You lock up your reciprocating saw … [Read more...] about Gardening Geek: Labor Day Edition
You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Blogging Edition
You might be a blogging gardening geek if… You consider your digital camera an essential gardening tool because while you are out in the garden, you just might see something that cries out to be shared on your blog. After all, that zinnia is so pretty and it only exists for a moment in time in just that light. Bonus points if you have more than one digital camera. You mark your calendar with various days for special posts such as Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, Foliage Follow up, Wildflower … [Read more...] about You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Blogging Edition
You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Rock Edition
You might be a gardening geek who likes rocks in your garden if… When your shovel hits a big rock in the ground, you immediately get out other tools to gently pry the rock out so you don’t scratch it all up. When you find a rock while digging, you get that same feeling you get when opening an unexpected present as you gently brush the dirt off to see what the rock looks like. When you come in from a day of gardening, you have a pocketful of rocks found here and there in the garden. You … [Read more...] about You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Rock Edition
You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Photography Edition
You might be a gardening geek when it comes to photography if… You welcome an occasional cloudy day because it gives you a good WOO to take pictures in your garden. Bonus points if you’ve stood over a plant to cast a shadow on it because that provided better lighting than the direct sun that was shining on it. You go out in the rain to take pictures of the garden when it is all wet. You didn’t realize your camera had a red-eye reduction feature to take the red eyes out of human and animal … [Read more...] about You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Photography Edition
You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Rainy Day Edition
You might be a gardening geek on a rainy day if… You contemplate buying one of those temporary shelters, the kind with the tent roof but no sides, to set up in strategic locations in the garden so you can continue weeding and planting, section by section, in the rain, in the garden. You go ahead and go to the garden center while it is raining because you figure there will be fewer people there and surely an umbrella will keep you mostly dry. Once there you encounter other gardeners, just like … [Read more...] about You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Rainy Day Edition
