Garden proverbs

[alan refail]

How about a collection of "garden wisdom"?

Here's a Vietnamese saying to start:

When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree

[oldherbaceous]

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

[donedigging]

Tickle it with a hoe and it will laugh into harvest

[goldilox]

OH, that's very poetic! I can see you must be a very profound person

[alan refail]

My obligatory Welsh one. Good advice for gardeners:

Nid yn y bore y mae canmol dirwnod teg

The morning is not the time to praise a fair day

And a more inscrutable Chinese one:

Avoid suspicion: when you're walking through your neighbour's melon field, don't tie your shoe.

[oldherbaceous]

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

[The Mouse]

Don't count your spuds before they're mashed!

Ok, I admit it, I've made it up - but they've all got to start somewhere

[alan refail]

If you want enough, grow too much.

I made that one up, I admit, but it has served me well for many years

[donedigging]

" The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession" not mine but Phyllis McGinley.

[Bren]

A seed sown today will be a meal tomorrow.
Bren

[Bren]

If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.

Earth provides enough for everymans need but not for everymans greed.

Bren

[alan refail]

A seed sown today will be a meal tomorrow.
Bren

Gardener's are ever optimistic!

Alan

[Mike Vogel]

Mine's actually for pushy parents who want their child to take GCSE at age 11:
Even the sweetest apple tastes sour in June.
mike

[richard p]

sow one seed for the mice, one to grow for the birds and one for the kitchen

a weed is something that grows so easily that nobody can make money selling it..

if you cant eat it why bother growing it...

[strawberry tart]

re cutting thistles.......
cut in May...back in a day
cut in June..is still too soon
cut in July...they will surely die