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Gardens and Gardening

2/12/2020

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​“Gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well-being.” -David Hobson (David M. Hobson): “Diary of a Mad Gardener” (2000)
 
“Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.” -Author Unknown
 
“Growing your own food is like printing your own money.” -Ron Finley (2013)
 
I’m a Gardener
 
I’m a gardener and I’m okay;
     I sleep all night and I plant all day!
I dress in grubby clothing,
     And hang around with slugs.
Oh, I’m happy in the garden,
     With dirt and plants and bugs!
 
by Author Unknown: sung to the same tune as that of Monty Python’s “I’m a Lumberjack” (14 December 1969)

“Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution than we used to be.” -E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985))
 
Rosemary: Do you know about the woman who planted an herb garden?
Cinnamon: Yes, I heard she is having the thyme of her life!

The very first secret to having a great garden is the soil, not the plants. Mix into the soil large amounts of organic materials, such as leaves, grass clippings, broken up or chopped up twigs, and kitchen waste to nourish the plants.

“Gardening takes a plot of land a hoe and willing muscles. Scratching the soil, harvesting garden fruits are peaceful results. With a garden there is hope.” -Grace Firth

“True gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.” -Vigen Guroian (born 1948)
 
“God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.” -Author Unknown
 
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
 
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
     How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle-shells,
     And pretty maids all of a row.
 
by Author Unknown
 
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
Garden Types
- Backyard garden
- Community garden
- English garden
- Flower garden
- Herb garden
- Rose garden
- Salad garden
- Tea garden
- Vegetable garden
- Wildflower garden
What type of garden would you like to have?
 
“In the Spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” -Margaret Atwood (born 1939)

Signs of Gardening
- Watch Out For Snap Dragons!
- Cultivate Lasting Friendships In A Garden
- Do Not Let The Little Things Bug You!
- Free Weeds - Pick Your Own
- Gardeners Have The Best Dirt
- Grow Happy In A Garden
- How’s It Growing?
- So Many Weeds . . . So Little Thyme
- Sow Seeds Of Kindness
 
“I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I work in the garden.” -John Erskine
 
“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.” -May Sarton (pseudonym of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995))
 
“There’s little risk in becoming overly proud of one’s garden, because by its very nature, it is humbling. It has a way of keeping you on your knees.” -JoAnn Barwick
 
“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” -Janet Kilburn Phillips
 
“When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.” -Author Unknown
 
Knock, Knock!
Who’s there?
Lettuce.
Lettuce, who?
Lettuce in, it’s freezing out here!
 
“Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.” -Henry Beard (Henry Nichols Beard (born 1945))
 
“Every garden may have some weeds.” -Author Unknown: English proverb
 
Fern: What do you call an avid gardener?
Rose: Herb.
 
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
 
Lou: How do you get a dog to stop digging in the garden?
Lulu: Take away his shovel!
 
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden,
     You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
-Rudyard Kipling (Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)): “The Glory of the Garden” (1923)
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​Whether you need wild flower bulbs to grow flowers around your front door, tomato seeds for your container vegetable garden, Gala apple tree seedlings for your side yard or orchard, ladybugs for natural pest control, or any of many different varieties of plants and gardening supplies, visit www.Gurneys.com. Have you ever considered giving someone seeds or a tree or other plant as a gift?
 
“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” -Basil (C.E. 330 - C.E. 379)
 

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Garden of Love
(A Gardener’s Valentine)
 
Cabbage always has a heart;
     Green beans string along.
You’re such a Tomato,
     Will you Peas to me belong?

You’ve been the Apple of my eye,
     You know how much I care;
So Lettuce get together,
     We’d make a perfect Pear.

Now, something’s sure to Turnip,
     To prove you can’t be Beet;
So, if you Carrot all for me
     Let’s let our Tulips meet.

Don’t Squash my hopes and dreams now,
     Bee my Honey, dear;
Or tears will fill Potato’s eyes,
     While Sweet Corn lends an ear.

I’ll Cauliflower shop and say
     Your dreams are Parsley mine.
I’ll work and share my Celery,
     So be my Valentine.
 
by Author Unknown
 

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“Plant the garden of your life with friendship’s lovely flowers.” -Author Unknown
 
“When all the chores are done, the avid gardener will invent new ones.” -Author Unknown
 
Gardener’s Palindrome: Mr. Owl ate my metal worm. (A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same both forward and backward.)
 
What are weeds good for? Pull them up with their roots, before they have grown flowers or seeds, let them dry in the sun, chop them up, and mix them with soil to provide nutrients for the non-weed plants.
 
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.” -Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900): “My Summer in a Garden” (1870), ‘Third Week’
 
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” -Doug Larson (1902 - 1981)
 
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
 
Mary, Mary quite contrary,
     How has your garden thrived?
With fertilizers and chemicals?
     Or is it genetically modified?
 
by Paul Curtis
 
Formula for a garden: Dirt + Seeds + Water + Sun = Weeds.
 

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God’s Garden
 
The Lord God planted a garden
     In the first white days of the world
And He set there an angel warden
     In a garment of light enfurled.
 
The kiss of the Sun for pardon
     The song of the bird for mirth
One is nearer God’s heart in a garden
     Than anywhere else on Earth.
 
by Dorothy Frances Gurney (Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney (1858 - 1932)): “Poems” (1913)
 

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Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Gruesome.
Gruesome, who?
Gruesome tomatoes in my garden - would you care for some?
 
“The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weeded a garden.” -Ray D. Everson (Raymond D. ‘Ray’ Everson (1884 - 1960))
 
Barney: What kind of jokes do gardeners tell?
Bernard: Corny ones!
 
“All the flowers and fruit of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.” -Author Unknown
 
I have a little garden, I scratch it with a hoe
I happily plant the seeds and happily watch them grow.
-Author Unknown
 
Kelly: Why do melons have fancy weddings?
Nellie: Because they ‘cantaloupe.’
 
“No Garden is without its Weeds.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 3576
 
“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.” -Alice Morse Earle (1851 - 1911)
 
“All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824), as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
 
“Give weeds an inch, and they’ll soon take a yard.” -Author Unknown
 
Holly: Who says, “Hoe, hoe, hoe!”
Ivy: A gardener laughing at your jokes.

“Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor’s motorized garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.” -Dave Barry (born 1947)
 
“Gardening: A leisure activity that is much activity and little leisure.” -Author Unknown
 
“If you need five tools to solve a problem in the garden, four of them will be easy to find.” -Mike Garofalo (Michael Peter Garofalo (born 1946)): “Pulling Onions” (May 2007)
 
“Though an old man, I am but a young gardener.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
 
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” -Audrey Hepburn (1929 -1993)
 
Inch by inch and row by row,
     I’m gonna make this garden grow.
-Author Unknown
 
“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
 
“A garden always gives back more than it receives.” -Mara Beamish
 
“Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
 
“My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.” -H. Fred Dale (H. Frederick Dale (1924 - 1994))
 
“You must have a garden. Wherever you are.” -Patricia MacLachlan (Patricia ‘Patty’ MacLachlan (born 1938)): “Sarah, Plain and Tall” (1985)
 
This is MFOL! . . . the most down-to-earth people we know grow their food for thought in a vegetable garden . . .
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