A neighbor yelled at me for trimming my hedge at the wrong angle last spring

She said I was cutting branches too close to the trunk and it would kill the shrub in 2 years. I changed to leaving an inch of stem and the hedge actually filled in thicker by fall. Anyone else get random gardening advice from strangers that turned out to be right?

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the_nina1mo ago

My friend Karen from down the street once told me I was watering my tomato plants too much, said the leaves would turn yellow and get spotty. I laughed it off because it had been a dry July and I thought more water was better. Sure enough, three weeks later half the leaves were yellow with brown spots and I had to pull two plants. She was right, I was drowning them.

brian8651mo ago

Yeah @the_nina, I did the same thing with my peppers last year, drowned them thinking I was helping.