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Gardening rules aka 50 ways to kill plants

  • Thread starter LauraZ5
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In an e-mail I once opened I found the following:
Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it was a valuable plant.
 
Blatantly ignored the instructions for my P. moranensis and severely overwatered this winter. It's punishing me by taking months to die. I once burned a plant I was particularly not fond of in a big aluminum pot with newspaper and sticks, I'd say that killed it. I've killed several cacti by overwatering, but I was a little kid so I didn't know better.
I think that my first rubber tree died from loneliness - I had it on a table by itself and it just started wasting away, never to recover.
~Joe
 
Plants in general? How haven't I killed them? That would be a much shorter list. Let's see...Round-up "drift", on purpose, accidentally, over and under watering, not enough light, too much light, wrong soil, improper placement, backing the car over them, neglect(benign & otherwise), the opposite of neglect, resentment(in the case of the Darlingtonia), evil thoughts, evil intentions, the "glove of death", and drunken gardening.
 
I use a stream. Just add plants and wait for first torrential downpour. It is quite effective.

Oh.... temperature and humidity shock is even faster and more effective. 70 degrees and AC -> 90 degrees and Bermuda high. Wilts in 2 hours!
 
yes I also "weed" occasionally. I always hate it when I do.
I have put plants in sun that were not accustomed to it.
Boasted on how well my plant was doing
+ various other persutes.
 
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Quote[/b] ]Boasted on how well my plant was doing

Boasting is a SURE way to kill a plant, especially one you are very partial to.

Not enought light, too much light, too much water, too little water. All the basics. Oh I have taken a weedeater to some. Oh and burning poison anything is not a good idea, my dad accidentally does it from time to time. I always get the rash and he comes out unscathed.
 
I've done all of the above,except for Jim's stream one
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~Niki~
 
You know, I forgot about this thread back here.
 
I
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how many times I forgot to drill drainage into a custom container. Then trying drill holes as water is running down your arm while a hole is finally opening.

Joe
 
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Oh my, that sounds like a "Laura" move not a Joe move. I've tried to drill drain holes in the bottom of seed germination trays after I had already filled them.
 
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