Quotes About Gardening

Years since I've seen you, Moosior Poirot. Thought you were growing vegetable marrows in the country." "I tried, Japp, I tried. But even when you grow vegetable marrows you cannot get away from murder.

I like growing things. I like hot food. I had time on my hands. Now I have Phil Rudd hot chilli sauce.

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

In some other life I must have been a pioneer woman because I love to have my hands in the dirt.

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

I love to pick tomatoes at the end of the day, when they're still warm from the sun.

This is my garden, all in ard. I tend it faithfully; let it keep faith with me.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

In the summer, 80 per cent of what I eat comes from my allotment. I grow everything from beetroots and leeks to apples and plums.

I want to create my own living space and grow my own food instead of paying someone to supply those for me.

I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I suppose, is roses. We've got masses.

He pictured her living alone in that tranquil house with its fine old furnishings, tending her flowers and fruit trees.

The heap of dirty dishes was normal for Arthur, who had applied for a reduction in his water rate on the grounds that he washed up only every fortnight, and then used the leftover liquid for watering his roses.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes Only two things that money can't buy That's true love and home grown tomatoes.

Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

I'm on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.