Your own or known saying about gardening that stand out!

Bobberman · Fri Dec 28, 2012 1:41 am

Your plants are like your employees that work 24 hours with no complaints!
Plants grow you investment day after day!
A weed has value since it stores heat from the sun and releases it into the soil in many forms when it is composted!
Gardening is Exercise with natures food as a by product for better health!
Lets hear what you think is a good garden related saying??

rainbowgardener · Fri Dec 28, 2012 2:32 am

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.

ElizabethB · Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:48 am

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden...But though an old man, I am but young gardener."

Thomas Jefferson to Charles W. Peale August 20, 1811

If you ever have the opportunity to visit Monticello please do so. Thomas Jefferson was years ahead of his time in his gardenening methods and the inovations he employed in his home.

DoubleDogFarm · Fri Dec 28, 2012 4:05 am

Not a saying, but a quote.

"Only when we see that we are part of the totality of the planet, not a superior part with special privileges, can we work effectively to bring about an earth restored to wholeness." Elizabeth Watson, Quaker

and a very good one.

Eric

rainbowgardener · Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:58 am

Glad you like it!

rainbowgardener · Fri Dec 28, 2012 7:39 am

A perennial is a plant that, had it lived, would have come back year after year.

Bobberman · Fri Dec 28, 2012 7:51 am

rainbowgardener wrote:A perennial is a plant that, had it lived, would have come back year after year.

Shoud the word be annual not prennial!l

ElizabethB · Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:06 am

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature! It will never fail you."

Frank Lloyd Wright

Gardening is "dirt therapy" a cure for many ailments.

My head.

rainbowgardener · Fri Dec 28, 2012 10:39 pm

Bobberman wrote:
rainbowgardener wrote:A perennial is a plant that, had it lived, would have come back year after year.

Shoud the word be annual not prennial!l

No, it wouldn't be funny if it were annual, they aren't expected to come back year after year. The point is about all the perennials we hopefully plant with visions of them coming back and growing and thriving, but they don't make it.

You aren't an expert gardener until you have killed a thousand plants!

Like everything else, we learn by trial and error, seeing what works and what doesn't.

rainbowgardener · Fri Dec 28, 2012 10:44 pm

Garden sign:

If you have time to read this, you have time to weed!

OR

So many weeds, so little thyme!

OR

Flowers grow by inches, but are destroyed by feet.

applestar · Sat Dec 29, 2012 12:46 am

Bobberman wrote:Your plants are like your employees that work 24 hours with no complaints!

When I read this, my first thought was you THINK they are your EMPLOYEES, but isn't it more like they are our EMPLOYERS? We tend to them day after day -- make their beds, feed them, water them, and give them haircuts....

Bobberman · Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:54 am

applestar wrote:
Bobberman wrote:Your plants are like your employees that work 24 hours with no complaints!
When I read this, my first thought was you THINK they are your EMPLOYEES, but isn't it more like they are our EMPLOYERS? We tend to them day after day -- make their beds, feed them, water them, and give them haircuts....

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Good point Apple. I guess plants have something over employees in that they don't have cell phones, cigeretts or belong to unions YET! They also take alot of S and likit!

ElizabethB · Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:01 am

Bobberman

DoubleDogFarm · Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:31 am

We had a neighborhood potlatch two nights ago. One of the neighbors received a new sign, from her husband, for Christmas.

Trespassers Will be Composted.

Eric

ElizabethB · Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:40 am

LA47 · Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:26 am

Growing a garden does't just feed the body, it also feeds the soul.

gumbo2176 · Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:46 am

I've always said "If vegetables grew as fast as weeds, we could end world hunger." Even though I don't believe I coined that saying, I believe it to be absolutely true.

digitS' · Sat Dec 29, 2012 11:39 am

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~ James Douglas

You do understand, James Douglas, that flowers don't grow in pure manure?

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By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. ~ Henry Mitchell

Steve
who kinda, sorta made that 2nd one up . . .

Bobberman · Sat Dec 29, 2012 11:55 am

What grows in the snow or at 20 below? My vacation killed my plants! Something you say in the middle of summer ,garden beans again! I wish I could hunt deer in the summer! That hair is making my garden bare!

Harvester of sorrow · Sun Jan 13, 2013 2:26 am

My garden is my church,it is where I truly feel the presence of God.

rainbowgardener · Sun Jan 13, 2013 5:11 am

Harvester of sorrow wrote:My garden is my church,it is where I truly feel the presence of God.

Many people have felt that:

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,--
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.

From God's Garden by Dorothy Frances Gurney

Bobberman · Sun Jan 13, 2013 11:04 am

Bobberman wrote:What grows in the snow or at 20 below? My vacation killed my plants! Something you say in the middle of summer ,garden beans again! I wish I could hunt deer in the summer! That hair is making my garden bare!

I don,t remember writting this! who wrote it?

DoubleDogFarm · Sun Jan 13, 2013 1:07 pm

Bobberman wrote:
Bobberman wrote:What grows in the snow or at 20 below? My vacation killed my plants! Something you say in the middle of summer ,garden beans again! I wish I could hunt deer in the summer! That hair is making my garden bare!
I don,t remember writting this! who wrote it?

This explains a lot. I think CharlieMV is right.

rainbowgardener · Mon Jan 14, 2013 12:11 am

Bobberman wrote:
Bobberman wrote:What grows in the snow or at 20 below? My vacation killed my plants! Something you say in the middle of summer ,garden beans again! I wish I could hunt deer in the summer! That hair is making my garden bare!
I don,t remember writting this! who wrote it?

Are you sure you just don't remember? It has all the hallmarks of a Bobberman post including lots of ! ! ! and mis-spellings.