How to Tell if you are Crazy About Gardening: Gardening Jokes for Green Thumbs

DKrunner | Oct 4, 2010 |

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Wondering if your love of gardening has gone too far? Are you always the "bud" of gardening jokes? Use the following items to self-screen yourself for being a gardening fanatic.

If you can relate to one or more of the following items, you may be an obsessive gardener.

You have been arrested at more than two customs department in airports for trying to sneak various plants back to your own country.

You have been caught serenading the plants in your backyard in order to try and make them grow faster.

You have had to talk your way out of being arrested after being caught stealing cuttings from your neighbor's garden.

You use the "look how much I've grown" charts to monitor how your shrubs and trees are growing, instead of charting your children's growth.

Your windowsills, dining room table, and kitchen counters are covered with potting planters filled with "starts" of various plants.

You have scrapbooks dedicated to each of your garden plants origins, upbringings, and yearly growth.

You sleep in your gardening gloves.

You have dreams about your garden and how well it is growing.

You garden in the rain and have been known to miss meals because all of the garden weeds had not yet been conquered.

High quality soil can be found under your fingernails at any given time.

Every piece of fruit that you eat leaves a seed that turns into a possible addition to your orchard.

You have named any of your plants or flowers.

You eavesdrop at Home Depot to interrupt and correct their garden salesperson (you happen to know that that garden plant requires more shade than the salesman was leading the customer to believe).

Your spare bedroom has been turned into a greenhouse. If anyone from out of town wants to come and stay with you, they've got to give at least a week's notice before there's enough room for them to temporarily dislocate your beloved green garden friends.

You haven't been out of town on vacation in years; that would mean you'd have to leave your garden behind!

Your friends at work call you Cisco the gardener.

Instead of being the "cat lady" on the block, you're the "plant lady", and people often knock on your door and them run away, leaving plants on your doorstep for you to adopt.

Your idea of "going out" involves the gardening section of any home improvement store.

The garden is your gym; you haven't had a conventional workout in years; your gardening hobby meets all of your fitness needs.

Your pets are jilted and rejected by all of the attention they see your garden getting.

Your garden knows no climate related limits; you grow citrus in the Northwest and pumpkins on the equator; weather and temperature are no match for your passion of gardening.

So, what's the final verdict? After reading this list, would you say you're you a gardening fanatic? If you are, don't be ashamed, wear your title proudly! There are a whole lot worse habits out there than gardening!