Here it is July 1 already. Summer is blooming along and providing me with many Gardening Oops (GOOPs) and gardening successes . On the first of each month I share one of my GOOPs hoping to give you an edge - maybe my GOOPs will help prevent you from doing the same.
It's June 1 and with that comes another in my continuing series of gardening oops confessions – I call it GOOPs for short. We all tend to learn from our missteps, and hopefully do the same from those of others. So on the first of each month I fess-up one of my GOOPs hoping you might learn from my faux pas. (Read through past GOOPs posts here.) Today If you are so inclined you can share one of yours below in a comment or on your own blog (just leave a teaser and a link below).
Happy 2010 to all my gardening friends and fellow bloggers. This being the first day of the month, and a new year to boot, it's time for me to fess up one of the many gardening oops – GOOPs for short – I've made in my three-plus decades of garden dabbling.
December 1, 2009. Welcome to the last of my gardening blunder posts for 2009. I started writing about my gardening faux pas back in May. After being inspired by the outpouring of garden bloggers who post photos of what's blooming in their gardens on Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, the brainchild of Carol at May Dreams Gardens, I figured it might be fun to tweak Carol's idea a bit and declare the first of each month as Gardening Oops Day, GOOPs for short. On GOOPs Day, I rehash one of my gardening blunders, and ask other gardeners to do the same – come on, admit it, you've made some blunders too. Admittedly, GOOPs has not taken off like GBBD, but I really didn't expect it to - I don't have near the number of readers as May Dreams Gardens. Still, one person, Debbie at A Garden of Possibilities, has stood steadfastly by my GOOPs idea and joined in nearly every month. To Debbie, and others who have stopped by to add their GOOPS – thank you.
November 1, 2009. Ahh Fall. When trees so easily offer their leaves back to the earth. Leaves cover everything – porches, patios, lawns, and gardens. I continue miss the opportunity to collect enough of these leaves into accessible piles where they will naturally follow the steps of decomposition and become leaf mold. Often, at this time of year, my husband and I are strapped for time and anxious to get the next load of leaves off the lawn. So we blow or rake them into the adjacent woods. Sounds perfectly normal. But when I want to access what, after a couple of years, has become leaf mold, I have to struggle through fallen branches, rocks, tree stumps, and uneven, sloping grounds … and this is a Gardening Oops – what I call GOOPS.
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