Quotes About Gardening

My master wishes to see you, said the mounted man. When the planting's done, I said. Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting. Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today. I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left.

Thou art fertile ground, and I will plant a garden in thee.

Papa had loved to sit out here among his grapes and chicken coops and tomato and pepper plants—to sit in the sun and sip his homemade wine and remember Sicily. .

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

I became a sort of garden fanatic, and I am not over it yet. You can take a few seed peas, dry and dead, and sow them in a little furrow, and they will sprout into a row of pea vines and bear more peas—it may not be a miracle, but that is a matter of opinion.

She is fond of greens who kisses the gardener.

Verses of veggies poems of fruit dotted with seeds raw green rhymes in melodious bodies

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. Oh, I know you've seen advertisements for lawn products that are supposed to kill crabgrass, but don't believe them. Crabgrass thrives on these products.

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have countered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.

Weed 'em and reap.

A man's Nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.

Gardening is simply a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.

The garden is the poor man's apothecary.

In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there. To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breathe. I know they are there to eavesdrop for the angels.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.

My rule of green thumb for mulch is to double my initial estimate of bags needed, and add three. Then I'll only be two bags short.

I did nothing but comfort my plants, till now their small green cheeks are covered with smiles.

When overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go out and garden, it's cheaper than a shrink.

If you are a gardener, you can always put "Plant Manager" on your résumé.

Gardeners learn by trowel and error.

Whoever makes a garden Has never worked alone; the rain has always found it, The sun has always known; The wind has blown across it And helped to scatter seeds; Whoever makes a garden Has all the help he needs.