[rachelsco]

Forgetting that i needed to let the polinators in to my tightly netted strawberry beds.

[Willow_Warren]

I am perfect... I haven't made any mistakes 


He... he... he....  :blink:

Hannah

[Beetroot queen]

I am perfect... I haven't made any mistakes 


He... he... he....  :blink:

Hannah

Yet 

[Willow_Warren]

Ok... so I may have grown far too many courgettes and let them get to the size of a cricket bat...

I may have not netted my peas in time and allowed them to be massacred by the pigeons...

I may not have secured my runner bean wigwam well enough and it very nearly toppled to the ground...

I may not have been too proficient with my swoe action and lots a few non weed plants in the process...

I think that's enough for starters!!

Hannah

[allotmentann]

Muddling the trays of dwarf and climbing beans! A nice bean frame completely unnecessary, and then because I had dotted the 'dwarf' beans around, trying to prop each plant up individually!

[engineer]

Ah! this one is easy  many years ago a so called friend of mine gave me some beetroot seed, so i planted enough to supply the Chinese army for a lifetime, great germination i thought, as the garden was covered in fast growing beet seedlings, don't look like Beetroot me thinks. contacted FRIEND, Ah! he said should have told you weeks ago it's SUGARBEET     

Moral of the story, don't believe eveything friends tell you

[fatbelly]

My 2 biggest mistakes have been.........

In my 1st year back in 2007 I scattered sowing Swede seeds & then I didn't know which were weeds or Swede's and ended up hoeing them all off.

My other mistake was only 3 years ago when we had a very hot  2 weeks in April so I thought Summer was here and sowed my Squashes, Pumpkins & Courgettes. The lovely weather continued until May when I planted out. 2 days after I planted out we had gale force winds, driving rain & hail. Every plant died within 3 days.

[ISL]

I sowed carrot seed in a 1m x 2m patch. I forgot i'd done it and later hoed the area thinking they were weeds coming through!!

[Beetroot queen]

I have realised a mistake at home I made............ Having kids.  no no I didn't just say that.



I meant letting my 12 year old plant the strawberry runners. They looked beautiful, fairly close, cosy we'll call it. And extremely close to the edge of the lawn....... Oops anyone for a trim   

[pigguns]

Got caught short and had a wee in my shed, (thinking about putting it on the compost dontcha know) but the bucket ha d a hole in it!!! 

[Beetroot queen]

Got caught short and had a wee in my shed, (thinking about putting it on the compost dontcha know) but the bucket ha d a hole in it!!! 

  I love the fact everyone has a couple, probably more if they are honest.

[gremlin]

And, in the last 15 minutes, was too rough in draping some bubble wrap over my best tomato plants potted in the greenhouse to protect them from the cold snap over the next few nights and snapped two plants off at soil level.   

Just had to stuff the broken off stems back into the soil, and hope

[Growster...]

Very cleverly planning to sow salsify (they're big seeds, and easy to handle), and then forgetting that - a) they were going in a bed previously used for another similar root crop, parsnip, then totally causing a lorry-crash by manuring the bed as well...

The only reason, it seems, why I bother carefully planning all the beds in January, is to cause mayhem in May...:0(

[sunshineband]

Making a nice tall cage for the PSB, covered with debris netting weighted with bricks
It blew away in a gale, snapping off a four year old apricot tree en route to the footpath, and the broccoli and sprout plants blew over at an angle and the sprouts were all 'fluffy'

Thinking saving my own parsnip seed would ensure excellent germination --it did, but the roots were coarse and not as sweet as expected

Sowing a swathe of wildflowers along the edge of the plot --- beautiful. Then letting them go to seed and am still paying for the way the wind scattered the seed across the whole plot

[R6robbo]

Making my raised beds so wide that I can't quite reach the centre of them from the path.

Me too!