To all you gardeners....what was an early mistake you made as newbie that makes you laugh today?

The other day I was looking at old garden journal I had made years ago. I was stressing out about my crocus coming up in snow. I had went out and put coffee cans over the emerging crocus....not that they needed the protection.





Also another time a LONG time ago .... I wanted to grow woodland garden so I went to my mother in laws and dug up tons of common violets and didn't realize that it was creeping charlie growing around violets. So not only did I have violets growing EVERYWHERE I had lovely creeping charlie spreading all over. Took lots of roundup to get rid of both.





Anybody else got some good stories about early or even recent mistakes??

To all you gardeners....what was an early mistake you made as newbie that makes you laugh today?
I went thru a stage where I planted lots of flower seeds in trays in my front porch. Many were easy to grow flowers like marigolds, zinnias, cosmos, and etc. Most ended up scraggly little plants that never did grow and I threw most out.





Honest mistake I once made. I mistook Roundup bottle I had mixed with bottle of fertilizer concentrate. Both were in plain white bottles and my husband had set roundup on shelf where my fertilizer sat. I wiped out so many plants and didn't realize it until about a week later when lots and lots of plants starting turning brown. I had big empty holes that year in my landscaping. Was not funny!
Reply:Digging up and trowing away plants that were dead to find they hadnt got to the growing stage yet. ei fuscia
Reply:somebody had told me to plant tomatoes deep, to cut off the limbs, and to water it alot... i must have misunderstood because i went waaaaaayy overboard with that concept..trying i guess to have the "perfect" tomato..so i bought these tomato plants and they were blooming and almost ready to produce.. so what do i do? i cut all the limbs off EVERYTHING except the "trunk" of the tomato (they were not the tomato vines) and i planted them very very deep so deep that maybe one inch was sticking up.. then i overwatered it thinking it would make the tomatoes juicy.....i had messed up SO bad... no tomatoes for me.. :(
Reply:A very common mistake that many people make is over or under watering.


I have overwatered plants in the past and they have died.


Now I know how to properly care for different flowers.





I also over-did the preen one year and my flowers got burned and died.
Reply:being aware of mature size before planting.... oh, dear , the ammount of stuff I have had to MOVE......
Reply:What just the one?! I could write a book on 'How not to garden' lol!!


Earliest memory...digging up all the seedlings instead of the weeds because I wasn't paying attention to what my mother was pointing at.


Planting a small tree in a big bulbous pot. It got too big which I knew it would! The only way to get it out was to smash the pot.