Even MORE ways to kill lots of plants at one time.

After reading Mike McGroarty's post called "53 ways to kill a lot of plants at one time" (see Backyardgrowers.com)  I decided that the topic needed a bit of expanding so here is my continuation:

Even MORE ways to kill a lot of plants at one time:

-Overwatered a drought-loving plant and watched the beautiful furry leaves rot away (lamb's ear)

-Oriented my growbed North/South and didn't realize that the sun was shining on the cuttings nearly all day except for a couple of hours around 1pm-2pm.  The leaves curled up, burned the edges and most died.

-Took cuttings and then got lazy and decided to stick them later.  Added a bit of water to the bag, shook it up, poured out the extra water, tied it up and threw it in the frig without looking at it very closely.  A puddle formed at the bottom of the bag.  Three days later when I finally got around to it, discovered that the puddle had turned several of my cuttings into gooey-ness.  

-Started seedlings inside and then didn't give them enough light.  The grew long and thready and then just layed down and died.

-Didn't wait long enough for cuttings to root.  Threw 'em all out.  Then learned from my mom that those particular plants take longer to root than the others I was accustomed to.

-After potting up new plants, I decided I would add labels to the pots tomorrow.  I didn't get to it the next day, or the next…. finally admitted that I could no longer tell which was which –  argh.

-Started my new seedlings out just fine, but then failed to water them two days in row.  They dried up and died.

-Planted my new tree according to the usual advice: dig a hole twice as big as the root ball… etc.  I failed to take into account that my soil is very hard and claylike.  My tree drowned in a bathtub of clay that water could not drain out of.

-Pre-soaked my seeds and then forgot about them for a week.  Swollen and gross.  And dead.

-Used a sharpie marker to write on my venetian blind tags.  A very short time later I could no longer see what I had written.

-Used a proper nursery marker designed to not fade with UV exposure.  However, I wrote them on old, used blind segments that had not been washed and the ink did not penetrate enough to be permanent.

-Didn't pull the weeds when they were small.  In just a short time they took over the pot and the roots were all intertwined with my plant.

-Failed to notice a kink in my garden hose and assumed that my timer was taking care of the watering for me.  In this case, my patch of grass seed that had just sprouted dried up and died.

-Watered the red Japanese maples too late in the morning, the sun shone on the water droplets and burned white spots on the leaves of many of them.  Hard to sell an ugly leafed tree.

Well that's enough for now.  Please tell me I'm not he only one to have made these stupid mistakes.   In hindsight, I can see that many of my losses were just plain due to my procrastination.