Garden proverbs

[richard p]

re thistles
leave them till july and they'll all have seeded before you cut them
nice ditty but a load of hogwash

[oldherbaceous]

A gardener that thinks there's only one way to do something, will soon come unstuck when up against Mother nature.

A Milton Bryan saying, from a village character.

[Greenman]

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

[alan refail]

Never have a garden bigger than your wife/husband can weed.

[Geoff]

Never stand behind a cow when it sneezes

[alan refail]

Never stand behind a cow when it sneezes

I think that's what's known as a backslash \