But Are You a Serious Gardener ;)

You Know You’re a Serious Gardener If…

• You can remember the frost dates better than your own birthday.
• No matter what hardiness zone you live in, you try to grow plants from the next warmest zone.
• You carry more photos of your garden on your phone than photos of your family.
• In a national park you have to resist the urge to pull the weeds.
• On vacation thousands of miles from home, you shop at every garden center before thinking about how you’ll get the plants home.
• You’d rather spread homemade compost on the garden than go out to dinner.
• You know far too much about manure and you share that information with strangers at dinner parties.
• You drive around the neighborhood hoping to collect leaves for your compost pile.
• You get positively excited to find a new source of manure.
• Your garden shed is better organized than your house.
• You never have dinner before sunset during the summer.
• You carry a water bottle on your walks to water any neighbor’s plants that look thirsty.
• Your fantasies revolve around owning a greenhouse.
• Your garden book collection rivals Barnes & Noble’s.
• You relax from a 40 hour work week by spending 20 weekend hours in the garden.
• You know Sevin is not a number.
• You know NPK is not a government agency.
• You look at a child’s sandbox and immediately see a raised bed.
• You know exactly how many bags of fertilizer your car can hold.
• You realize you’re encouraging the garden plants out loud.
• You weed the pots in the big box store while shopping.
• At the garden center, if you overhear two strangers wondering if a plant will grow well in our area and you know it won't, you just have to butt in...
• You drove four hours to visit a nursery that didn’t have what you wanted, but spent a hundred dollars anyway.
• You too quickly go from despair over a dead plant to delight over the chance to buy a new one.
• There are plant tags in the bottom of your purse or jacket pocket.
• You see a suffering plant at a big box store and have to save it by bringing it home to your plant hospital.
• You hunt down the Lowe’s clerk to point out the potted perennials that need watering.
• You leave the house with clean hands, but by the time you reach the car, your nails are grimy.
• Your fingernails are the shortest they've been since birth.
• You lose the storyline of a BBC show because you’re trying to  identify the plants in the background.
• You stop talking mid-sentence when you see a plant you don't recognize.
• You try to save every puny little plant that really should go into the compost bin.
• You divide perennials to make more - knowing your garden is full already.
• You accept plant starts from everyone, not even caring what is being offered.
• You happily give away plants since it means you now have room to plant more.
• You pot up any small plant you can’t identify in the garden just in case it’s not a weed.
• You love sharing extra plants but won’t allow anyone to touch your compost pile.
• Instead of throwing out the sprouting potatoes in your vegetable drawer, you plant them
• When it rains, you tell everyone “we need the rain” while secretly appreciating the break from weed pulling chores.
• You excuse the weeds by telling yourself that they’re just "native plants.
• The shed, the garage, closets & crawl spaces are all filled with old nursery pots.
• You own at least 3 floppy hats and two pairs of nasty garden-only shoes.
• You have more garden gloves than earrings.
• You visit coffee houses just to collect their used coffee grounds.
• You delight in the harvest of the first tomato. The $25 and 20 hours of labor to produce it are irrelevant.
• You save all 144 tomato seedlings even though you only need 6.
• You postpone vacation until after the vegetable garden is harvested.
• You spend too much time wondering if your weirdly shaped potato looks more like George Washington or your grandfather.
• On laundry day it's not unusual to find seeds in your pockets. You can't remember where the seeds came from but you plant them anyway.
• Your neighbors don't recognize your face because that's usually not the end they see.
• You hesitate when your spouse says there's not enough room in the house for both her/him and the houseplants.
• You have to kill a certain plant at least three times in three different places before it occurs to you that maybe you should quit trying.
• Your idea of winter fun is sticking your hand in the compost pile to feel if it's hot.
• While you’re waiting in the doctor's office, you find yourself removing dead leaves from the houseplants.

And last (but very definitely least)  

• Your last name is Moore and you named your son Lon. 

 I wish I could take credit for these, but they've been culled from the websites of  a lot of talented writers. 

How many apply to you?