Last Chance: A Gardening Mishap You’ll Want to Avoid!

Check out this collection of gardening-mishap stories for a few chuckles and to avoid these mistakes yourself! [GreenPrints]( December 16, 2023  [YOU’VE HEARD OF USING FISH FOR GARDEN FERTILIZER, RIGHT? JUST DON’T DO IT THIS WAY!]( When you read the GreenPrints Special Collection Gardening Mishaps: Funny Stories About Mistakes in the Garden, you get 37 helpful and humorous real-life stories—you’ll laugh a bit, but you’ll also learn from the mistakes of others! Dear Gardener, Gardening is all about continuous improvement—succeed when you try something, and it’s a great feeling. Try and fail—well, you’ve learned something, right? To give you the benefit of learning from the mistakes of others, read stories such as “[Thawing and Dripping]( short-and-sweet account of one woman’s garden flop. More about this story in a minute … When you read the special GreenPrints Collection [Gardening Mishaps: Funny Stories About Mistakes in the Garden]( you get helpful and humorous stories about a variety of garden failures. [Sunflower Kit]( You see, I want you to have all these stories to educate and entertain you. To help you avoid the mistakes others have already made—while making you smile, laugh, or just say “Awwww.” So, what are you waiting for? Here is a quick-and-easy way to get advice about what not to do in the garden—with the special GreenPrints Collection [Gardening Mishaps: Funny Stories About Mistakes in the Garden]( Please check out this story, entitled “Thawing and Dripping”—it’s sure to give you a chuckle, make you sympathize (and maybe even empathize) with author Margaret Doran, and teach you about something you might have thought about doing (fish for fertilizer) in your own garden:  [IMAGE]( [Thawing and Dripping]( By Margaret V. Doran  [IMAGE](  A city girl, I married a country boy who hunted, fished, and planted big gardens. One Friday I arrived home from work to find that our freezer had died. We were determined to save what we could. We dried and smoked smelt, made jerky, cut corn off cobs and canned it, made gallons of tomato juice, and canned smelt in tomato sauce. I turned the fruit into jams. We cut up venison and elk and canned it for stew. By Sunday night, only the bags of trout frozen in water were left, thawing and dripping. What could we do with them? Then I remembered from grade school when I learned that Native Americans used fish to fertilize their plants. On Monday, I arranged to take the next morning off from work. I then stopped to buy magenta petunias on my way home. [Read More...]( Illustration by Marilynne Roach  What a funny story that makes you feel for the author! You must read the rest of it. And the GreenPrints Collection [Gardening Mishaps: Funny Stories About Mistakes in the Garden]( has many more stories for you—37 stories that deliver you gardening-based advice about mistakes to avoid and delightful entertainment you can’t get anywhere else! Including this featured story—"Thawing and Dripping"—you get all the stories in this GreenPrints Special Collection on gardening mishaps, including these other gems: - “I Murdered My Peas!”—read about an amateur gardener’s first attempt at growing peas and how he was flummoxed and exasperated at the end of a bountiful season, until a Master Gardener straightened him out. A very relatable story! - “My Maple Mishap.”—read about one woman’s itinerant life, replanting Japanese-maple seedlings at every new home, until she was surprised what grew in her last attempt. You’ll identify with this experienced gardener’s shock! - “Insecticidal Soap Gone Awry.”—read about this gardener’s battle with cutworms and the supposedly surefire solution. Nope! The result was an entirely ruined garden one year—read what happened and learn the lesson for yourself. - “Third Time? Not the Charm.”—read about this gardener’s three attempts to grow Eremurus, or foxtail lily, without success. In baseball, three strikes and you’re out. And third time wasn’t a charm here. - “Rabbits Don’t Like Marigolds.”—read about this couple’s desire to repel rabbits from their garden without using chemicals, instead favoring marigolds to surround their vegetable garden. While rabbits don’t like marigolds, it didn’t work the way it was intended. Hint: The rabbits showed exactly how much they dislike marigolds! - “Take That, Nasty Slugs!”—read about a woman’s initial gardening venture when she discovered slugs eating her flowers … and how she learned that salt works to kill the slugs. Problem was … well, you have to read the story to discover how it ends! - “Blooper, Blooper.”—read about one woman’s delight in growing lots of varieties of winter squash. Until one day an odd variety popped up in her garden … and eventually wreaked havoc. Read the story to find out what it was! [GreenPrints all access]( And new stories are being added to this Special Collection all the time—you get unlimited access to all of them! Please read what some subscribers say about how GreenPrints helps them: “Good story—sounds like something I would have done.” —Barton Fritzinger, Lehighton, PA “I laugh so hard tears stream down my face!” —Sierra Butler, Carmel, CA “I got the latest issue and it lifted my heart with much needed laughter! My husband just went under hospice care, and it is very trying on me. 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