Gardening Disasters?

Question

In your experience gardening, what one mistake have you made that was most costly in terms of time and/or money? This is something in your range of control you could have/should have done differently (things like unseasonably late frosts or rare plagues of pest don't count).

Answer 1

My big mistake was planting seeds indoors and transferring them outside too early just because we have a few warm days! Most of them were dead when the nights got chilly!

Answer 2

Not considering the amount of time needed to tend the garden, for example weeding,amending soil etc. I prefer not to use mulch because I am hoping that eventually I will have enough perennials that weeds won't be a problem,I also plant alot of seeds to fill in.I also learned the valuable lesson of knowing which plants reseed themselves and can take over a garden.

Answer 3

Planting perennials in the middle of summer. Perennials should be planted in the spring. If you wait till summer you have to water and water and water and water because the roots aren't established yet. In spring it is cooler and there is more water. It gives the plants plenty of time to gain roots before summer hits.

Answer 4

Yeah, I pulled a terrible boo-boo in my flower garden!!
I'm NOT proud of it, but I learned a valuable lesson.
1) I bought 20 English Daisy plant, planted them along the
patio, at the side of the house. Almost immediately, they were invaded by bugs. So I sprinkled Diazanon all through
the flower beds to kill off the bugs.
Well..........it killed off the bugs alright, BUT, it also killed off all
of my English Daisies.!!!

Answer 5

Moving into a house that had a crater the size of my backyard from the previous tennant's swimming pool. We have ended up shoveling over 20 yards of dirt, and we still have no grass. :)

Answer 6

Over fertilizing with chemical fertilizer.

Answer 7

I'd be standing in line at Home Depot....people be returning dead plants !!!!...true....

Answer 8

over fertalizing

Answer 9

i put gas on it !!!