Delta Burke Quotes

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

The beet must be uprooted.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

The vinery is not made with blessings, but with hoes and spades.

I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.

During the season, you have to grow.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

I was a landscaper for three years and loved it.

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

I have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.

I do the gardening.

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.