Quotes About Gardening

If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden.

To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Wendy rolled her window down. The night chill blasted into the car. She wrinkled her nose. "Phew. All I smell is arsenic trioxide and sodium nitrate. Americans don't garden, they wage chemical warfare on their plants.

hugelkultur, a method of burying logs in earthen mounds as the basis for gardens, a nifty function-stacking that stores nutrients and moisture in the soil while sequestering the carbon of waste wood that might otherwise be burned.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.

Spring is that wonderful if somewhat delusional time for a gardener when the sap rises and everything seems possible.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

For 7 pounds of food waste per week, I would start with 2 to 3 pounds (0.9 kg to 1.4 kg) of worms in a 6-cubic-foot worm bin.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

It was one thing to invite a married man into your bed – and quite another to invite him to help you with the gardening.

My mother has told me once and for all the useful parts. She will add nothing unless powered by necessity, a riverbank that guides her life. She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the field and eats food left for the gods.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!

You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!

Plants like beer! Don't just dump beer left in bottles after a party. Once it becomes flat—after a day or two—add the beer to your SFG bucket of sun-warmed water. The nutrients and salts in the beer will give your plants an added boost. Of course, if the dog seems a little dopey for no apparent reason, you'll know you need to put a cover on that bucket!

Keep an eye out for the basics, such as putting taller plants on the north side of the box. Put plants that require a lot of attention, grooming, or harvesting (such as bush beans) near the outside and low-maintenance plants (such as radishes and carrots, which you can plant and pull) in the inside squares.

Extra Large vegetables generally can be planted only one per square (or sometimes even one plant for two grid squares); Large vegetables are planted four per square; Medium vegetables are planted nine per square; and Small vegetables are planted sixteen per square.

Finally, the Square Foot Gardening method recommends that you create deliberate diversity in your garden by not planting adjoining grid squares with the same vegetables.