Re: Famous Gardening Quotes

OhioGardener 4/1/2019, 9:26 am

"April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain." ~ T. S. Eliot

**sanderson** 4/1/2019, 2:43 pm

He probably wrote that after he moved to England. Very Happy

OhioGardener 4/15/2019, 9:09 am

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
~ William Shakespeare

OhioGardener 4/18/2019, 8:46 am

"In nature, nothing exists alone."
~ Rachel Carson

**sanderson** 4/19/2019, 2:20 pm

That takes me back in time.

ispinwool 4/29/2019, 9:03 pm

"If well managed, nothing is more beautiful than the kitchen garden." William Cobbett, The English Gardener 1829

"God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man." Francis Bacon, 'Of Gardens', essays 1627

I found a lovely gardening book at the library...they reclaimed an old forgotten, walled garden like the one in the book "The Secret Garden". Charming read! Old fashioned row planting...but charming anyway.
(It's called "The Family Kitchen Garden" by Liebreich, Wagner and Wendland)

OhioGardener 5/10/2019, 4:50 pm

"It's not about what we put on the soil, it's about how we care for the soil." ~ Jen Aron, Blue Rave Farm, Oregon

OhioGardener 5/12/2019, 9:21 am

"A lot of problems can happen in the garden that can confuse the average gardener."

From Urban Farmer Seeds, "Common Vegetable Problems": https://www.ufseeds.com/learning/common-vegetable-problems/

OhioGardener 5/13/2019, 11:08 am

"Ask ten gardeners how to improve the soil and you’ll get nine different recommendations. (The tenth guy won’t tell.)" ~ Michelle Koch

**sanderson** 5/13/2019, 3:19 pm

So true

plantoid 5/17/2019, 5:08 am

OAF! :- As in "Oh ffff !" Shocked

Famous quote by Plantoid in 2002 , when he realised he'd weed killed all of his three year old grown from seed all male asparagus bed . Embarassed

He went to specsavers to get his eyes checked after that , cos they looked like blades of grass coming through the asparagus bed ..HONEST .

OhioGardener 5/20/2019, 9:09 am

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~ Hans Christian Andersen

**sanderson** 5/22/2019, 1:19 am

OhioGardener 6/8/2019, 10:23 am

"I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error." ~Sara Stein

OhioGardener 6/11/2019, 1:58 pm

Do something with your hands...like gardening. These activities turn on a good mood and turn off stress. Working with your hands stimulates the right side of the brain, which controls your creative, intuitive, more easygoing side, and turns off the controlling, logical left side of the brain. The more the right side of the brain is encouraged, the better you feel.

From "Chill Out: 100 Creative Ways to Relax", by Richard Craze

**sanderson** 6/14/2019, 2:25 pm

The quote from Sara Stein . . . rofl

Regarding the other quote, gardening is good for us.

OhioGardener 6/24/2019, 7:26 pm

Was reading a very interesting article, titled "Dirt has a microbiome, and it may double as an antidepressant", and really enjoyed the final paragraph:

"For now, the research seems to at the very least to bolster what gardeners have been saying for centuries: Gardening is great therapy."

OhioGardener 7/4/2019, 10:26 am

“Working with living creatures, both plant and animal, is what makes agriculture different from any other production enterprise. Even though a product is produced, in farming the process is anything but industrial. It is biological. We are dealing with a vital, living system rather than an inert manufacturing process. The skills required to manage a biological system are similar to those of the conductor of an orchestra.

The musicians are all very good at what they do individually. The role of the conductor is not to play each instrument, but rather to nurture the union of the disparate parts. The conductor coordinates each musician's effort with those of all the others and combines them in a harmonious whole. Agriculture cannot be an industrial process any more than music can be.” 
~ Elliot Coleman, The New Organic Grower

**sanderson** 7/4/2019, 11:32 am

“Whoever makes two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before … does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.”

Jonathan Swift, an Irish author most famous for his book “Gulliver’s Travels"

**sanderson** 7/6/2019, 4:27 pm

Regarding earthworms:

"It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures." Charles Darwin. 1881

countrynaturals 7/7/2019, 12:57 pm

Not so famous, but eye-opening:

There are more microbes in a teaspoon of soil than there are people on the earth.

**Scorpio Rising** 7/7/2019, 7:41 pm

“The Earth laughs in flowers”.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

OhioGardener 7/8/2019, 9:06 am

"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul."
~ Alfred Austin

**sanderson** 7/8/2019, 1:21 pm

These are some good ones.

OhioGardener 7/15/2019, 2:51 pm

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.
~Author Unknown

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