Curtis Stone Quotes

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 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.

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

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

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

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

I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.

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.

Working with the earth is peaceful for me.

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

I feel very guilty about not having a vegetable garden, but it is quite time-consuming.

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

Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.

I find it so exciting to grow your own food.

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

I'm really into gardening.

I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

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.

It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.

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.