31 Ways to Know You’re Addicted to Gardening

1. Your neighbors often see you outside in pajamas, rubber boots and holding a cup of coffee.
2. You take banana peels, coffee grounds, apple cores and other scraps from complete strangers. For your compost.
3. You need to wash your hair just to get your fingernails clean.
4. All your neighbors come to you with gardening questions.
5. You know the temperature of your compost every day.
6. You enjoy crushing Colorado potato beetles and mole crickets because you like the sound they make.
7. Your boss makes “taking care of the office plants” an official part of your job description.
8. Everything you touch turns into “fertilizer.”
9. Your non-gardening spouse starts learning the botanical names of your plants.
10. You plan vacations around botanical gardens, arboretums, rose gardens, historic gardens and similar places.
11. You come home with a five-foot Japanese maple and wonder whether your spouse will notice.
12. When you review your budget, you realize you have spent more on plants than on groceries.
13. You always keep a shovel, bottled water and a plastic bag in the trunk of your car as emergency tools.
14. You value your Master Gardener badge more than your jewelry.
15. You spend more time chopping vegetables for the compost bin than for cooking.
16. You like the smell of manure more than Estée Lauder.
17. You are happy when it rains... and for 10 days AFTER it rains.
18. You are proud of how terrible your hands look.
19. You have a decorative compost container on your kitchen counter.
20. You can easily give away plants, but compost is another matter.
21. Soil test results actually mean something to you.
22. You would rather go shopping at a plant nursery than at a clothing store.
23. You know words like “Mesurol Schneckenkorn.”
24. You invite everyone who enters your home on a “garden tour.”
25. You look at your child’s sandbox and see a raised garden bed.
26. For Christmas and birthdays, you ask for garden tools and seeds.
28. You lecture complete strangers who are not taking proper care of their potted plants.
29. You drive around the neighborhood hoping to find extra bags of leaves for your compost.
30. Your preferred reading material is seed catalogs.
31. You know that the four seasons are:
    • Garden Planning
    • Garden Preparation
    • Gardening
    • Preparing and Planning the Next Garden

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