True gardening stories: My funniest garden experience 68 Articles

by Dawn Duddy

Living in a home on a large piece of land is an amazing blessing for a gardener. The ability to grow your own fruits and vegetables, put them up in quart jars that line the pantry shelves to enjoy for months to come is ...read more

by Poppy Fields

Having finally decided to go organic and grow my own vegetables, I set off for the garden center with a sense of pride. Growing my own produce would be both cost efficient and eco-friendly. Spurred on by thoughts of health...read more

by Pat Merewether

What would you think if you saw one of your neighbors staggering around her front yard drinking the remains of 40 oz. beer at eight o'clock in the morning? Well, mine did and the staggerer was me and it's all the slugs fau...read more

by Ms. Shell

My funniest gardening story In Pennsylvania you only have around four to five months to grow a vegetable garden. Usually you can start planting you vegetables around early May, when you are safe from the frost. Two ...read more

by Shaun Ashcroft

My funniest gardening experience. There can be a huge cost to getting things for free. The garden, if you could possibly see with a vision that would allow it, was a green junkyard. It did not look like a junkyard but t...read more

by Kellene Sampson

My husband and I have a garden on a microscopic scale. What I mean to say is that, we live on top of a mountain and we garden. Most of our garden is on a strip of ground next to our driveway. From the top of the garden to ...read more

by RahimAbdul

"I had planted some sunflower seeds, here! Why the lemon tree that grew?" My grandma asked my Mum when she came for her monthly visit to our house. All this started about five or six months ago. My Dad bought a landed p...read more

by Pamela Kay

The Okra Incident Daddy was smiling. Mother looked as though she would cry. Two brothers and a sister sat slumped in the back seat with arms folded tightly across their chests. What was I doing? Well, I was on the edge ...read more

by Linda Shrigley

True Gardening Stories: My funniest gardening experience That would definitely have to be the summer my son was just two years old, his first year of helping me in the garden. We went out and dug up the rows in which w...read more

by Faith Draper

Before I can share my funniest garden experience I need to explain I have over 30 years of gardening experience. That said I have to say my funniest garden experience was just this past spring. Although at the time it did...read more

by Dorothy Marie Kucera

A "Raised Garden Bed"-plants up high, where no insects could find them? No more bending to the ground to plant, maintain and harvest the garden? It sounded ideal for me. I had ruptured my back disc in earlier years and my ...read more

by A.R. Marth

What can you do with a zucchini as big as your thigh? I don't know either. If you find out, please let me know. I had a brand new garden, my first one ever. Having been a city kid, and having lived in apartments mos...read more

by Bart Ringer

Cats, Gardens and Birds Living dead center in the middle of Wyoming has always offered unique challenges when it comes to gardening. As a California transplant my first attempts at vegetable gardening were at best,...read more

by Tru Leigh Martin

My funniest garden experience is every time I step out and try to garden. I want to have one of those beautiful gardens that my friends and family can pull up to the house and just think my home is the most adorable thing ...read more

by DeeTee

During the summer of my life I decided to throw away the wisdom of the ages relating to the growing of a garden. I would banish straight, sterile rows of homogenous plantings in favor of a more casual, colorful and enligh...read more

by Jon Coe

A few years ago, I decided to thin out my Azalea bushes that sit in front of my house. Some foreign shrub was trying to get a hold right in the center of the Azalea so I had to go in deep. As I snipped away, my wife and...read more

by Jane Allyson

Have you ever seen an African Grey Parrot? We used to have one way back when I and my fast growing family lived in a little rundown old cottage in Kent. I must be thinking back 20 years ago now... Polly the parrot was ...read more

by Alisa Mantall

Learning techniques throughout my life from my maternal grandfather, who was a farmer to my father who grew his own food on his land, couldn't prepare me for what I was to struggle with in my new home garden over 1200 mile...read more

by Kathleen O'Brien

ATTEMPT AT ATTAINING THE PERFECT GARDEN Years ago, the extent of my gardening experience was to visit the local discount store in the spring and purchase a few annuals. I stored them in the garage for safekeeping until ...read more

by Mary Chris Hines

The Gold Dust Plant I long dreamed of having a luxuriant garden like my mother had when I was a kid. When I was around 6 or 7, and as I grew, she would let me help tend her treasured tomato plants, the succulent rhub...read more