Kitchen Garden Forum

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

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

Tickle it with a hoe and it will laugh into harvest

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

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.

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

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

If you want enough, grow too much.

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

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

A seed sown today will be a meal tomorrow.
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

Bren wrote:A seed sown today will be a meal tomorrow.
Bren

Gardener's are ever optimistic!

Alan

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

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...

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