True gardening stories: Oops! 76 Articles

by Andrea Hutchinson

It was a very cold November. Halloween was over and my two hardy young boys, James (four) and Shane (three), were outside playing. What I hadn't realized was that the boys were throwing the Jack-o-Lanterns around the very ...read more

by Will Kester

Oops! A Gardener's Story of Trials and Tribulations Once upon a time, long, long ago, I had a huge garden - two acres. I didn't realize it was huge when I laid it out and started plowing and planting it. It looked e...read more

by Pamela Kay

As I stood hosing the thick red mud from the mountain of clothes at my red feet, I watched the children playing barefoot in the grass and chuckled to myself. How long would our hands and feet be red? I drifted back in tho...read more

by B.J.Clifford

"Some day I'm going to plant a garden," is what I always said. "Yes, and I'll grow it organically and watch the beautiful art of creation take hold. I'll eat healthy and cleanse my soul with the tilling of dirt and pulli...read more

by Mark E Christensen

Looking back when I was fourteen and thought I knew it all. And was I ever so wrong. All this craziness started after my father had paid a friend to mow our lawn. After he had finished and gone I noticed the grass was a li...read more

by Emma Cooper

Even before we started work on our new garden, I began growing vegetables in pots on the patio. Given my concerns for the environment, a worm composter seemed the ideal addition. I ordered one with stacking layers, as that...read more

by Sarah Williams

I will admit right away that I have always wanted to be one of those people who seems to magically wave their hands and a garden springs up full of flourishing greenery and brightly colored flowers...unfortunately, I have ...read more

by Lynn Burelle

I must say that I am not a gardener, I'm a gardener wannabe. I see all of these beautiful gardens all around me and it is something I want my yard to aspire to. I tried, I chose the plot carefully, decided on it shape, st...read more

by Martie Pistol

Hard work and no rest, that is what I went through to remove all the wild daffodils and buttercups from my front yard that fall. I wanted to replace these wild flowers with black and white tulips, since there were no othe...read more

by Monica La Vella

As a first time home owner, I was also a first time gardener. Unless we want to count that one time when I was small and thought it would be fun to plant weeds in mom's garden. Let's not count that. As a first timer, I ...read more

by Denise Murphy

A close friend of mine always wanted to grow a garden like mine. She wanted my help in planning it out and I was happy to help. Well at first I was. She was an expert at houseplants but when it came to outdoor gardening...read more

by Jen Schnoer

Miracles happen everyday and sometimes the best ones might happen to you. A green thumb was a foreign concept in our family. Year after year, when it came to being able to grow anything, we would begin to see very little p...read more

by Alissa Mcrae

Last spring we had a mouse problem in our backyard. Our neighbors kept leaving their garbage in their backyard instead of taking them straight to the bin. The mice seemed to really like that. Then a mysterious hole appe...read more

by Susan Thrower

My sister wanted to go up to the cemetery and plant flowers on our parents grave. She invited me to go along. We loaded the car with rakes and tools and headed for the local nursery. The flowers on display were beautiful a...read more

by Sandra Petersen

"That's what we're going to do this year." I thrust the gardening magazine under my husband's nose and jabbed my finger at the open page. Lance glanced at the photo and the title of the article, then raised his eyebrows...read more

by James Venn

It was going to be one of those days, I mused. One of those rare weekends when I was going to have my time to myself and my garden. My wife was away with friends and the sun was shining. The recent rains had brought a rich...read more

by Pat Merewether

My uncle found me sitting alone on Grandma's front porch swing. I looked over the hills of what was then Homestead, Pennsylvania, and remembered the magical feeling of watching the night sky light up when they dumped the ...read more

by Michelle Sprecher

Being a frugal gardener, I was eager to jump on the chance to trade perennials with a co worker. I live in an old farm house where the owners had planted the once sought after, orange, run of the mill, can't kill the thi...read more

by Randal Purdy

My family lived in a rural area in Northeast Tennessee.The ground where my Mom planted her first garden consisted of hard red clay.The chances of having a productive season were questionable, at best.Having been raised o...read more

by Karel Taylor

Time to clean the garden By: Karel Taylor Depending on whom you are and where you live determines the time of year you clean your garden for winter. For me, I started in the middle of August, the week the kids went b...read more