All things Green and Dirty (Green Thumb v0.2)

[KichigaiNeko]

Hi. As there is an old version of "The Green Thumb Thread" that hasn't seen any avtivity since April 2012 I thought I would start another one.


I was going through my recipe book (entitled "Gardener's Notebook") that contains many a poem and quote regarding all things green and dirty; thought they were good enough to share.......
Please enjoy

"He who plants a garden, plants happiness" Chinese Proverb

"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back with a hinge in it. Annon

Furrow: Horizontal line on the forehead of a gardener.
Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs, in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals
Hose: Crude but effective and totally safe, type of scythe towed through gardens to flatten flower beds and level vegetable plantings
Nursery: The only known place where money grows on trees.
Perennial: Any plant which had it lived would have bloomed year after year
Henry Beard and Roy McKie
from- Gardening: A Gardener's Dictionary

A garden makes sure you always have something to worry about. Pam Brown

Gardening can become a kind of disease. It infects you; you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible urge to get up and pull a weed. Lewis Grannit So guilty of this one!

Fruit: General term for the seed bearing part of a plant that is eaten by birds or worms, drops off, gets funny spots, isn't what was pictured in the catalogue, tastes like a glove or doesn't appear at all.
Henry Beard and Roy McKie
from- Gardening: A Gardener's Dictionary

For a person whose work throws up and agreed set of figures at the end of each day, a garden is the last sane place on earth. Pam Brown

Gulp.... I loved my vegetable garden. So here's my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months and ate it in one salad. Arnold Zarret.

Onion sets: small onions, planted in the soil one day and transferred elsewhere by birds the next
Rockery: what the builder left behind
Self-sufficiency gardening: a method of growing vast supplies of the kinds of vegetables you would never normally eat.
Soft-fruit: bird sanctuary
Robin Clarke
from - "the completely Unillustrated Encyclopaedia of Gardening"

Bulb: potential flower buried in the autumn, never to be seen again.
Carrot: special food grown for carrot flies
Drought: weather immediately after planting
Green fingers: black finger nails.
Harden off: KILL by frost.
Hoeing: manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables
Henry Beard and Roy McKie
from- Gardening: A Gardener's Dictionary

I don't know how people deal with their moods than they have no garden, raspberry patch or field to work in. you can take your angers, frustrations. bewilderments to the earth working savagely, working u a sweat and an ache and a great weariness. The work rinses out the cup of your spirit, leaves it washed and clan and ready to be freshly filled with new hope. It is one of the reasons that I am addicted to raspberry patches. The pie is purely symbolic.
Rachel Peden.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman

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These were taken just now at Ishi to hikari no ie (The House of Stone and Light) just before our first Thunderstorm of the summer season.

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[Zen Badger]

Damn that looks good babe.

[KichigaiNeko]

Glad ya like it Bebe!!

[festive1]

I don't have a green thumb Plants always die under my care... But I do love a good garden, I'm just incapable of keeping it alive. Nice work, it really looks great!

[KichigaiNeko]

Thanks feative1!

Not so much green thumb as black finger nails!!

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