Monty Don Quotes

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

Let me tell you about a place where technology won't work. When you walk onto a farm and are standing on soil, there is no technology that is going to take that soil and transform it into something that is five times more productive.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.

It's one thing to plant a tree, it's another to make it survive. If you know you are not going to take care of that tree, don't bother

We have to stop treating soil like dirt.

Micronutrient deficiency in the soil results in micronutrient malnutrition in people, since crops grown on such soils tend to be deficient in the nutrients needed to fight hidden hunger.

Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks. The problem is too much wind, too little water and tired compost.

You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

All soils are not fertile.

If the soil were as good as the harbours, it would be a blessing.

Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

A fallow field is a sin.

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and harder every year as the chemicals burn out the organic matter, which gives the soil its sponginess. One pound of organic matter holds four pounds of water. The best drought protection any farmer can acquire is more soil organic matter.

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.

Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.