Tana Ramsay Quotes

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

What's not to aspire to about how to grow your own fruit and vegetables and plants, and then being creative?

I have been growing vegetables since I was a boy. When I was about 17 I was the only one of five children living at home. My parents were ill and I took over the vegetable garden and I have had one ever since.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

I'm really into gardening.

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.

… a gospel of dirt

We grow our own vegetables.

We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.

By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending it carefully and with love, your world and everyone's else's world too, becomes a better place.

I grow strawberries, watermelon, onions, you name it.

I find it so exciting to grow your own food.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.