Tom Jones Quotes

I like to pick my own vegetables.

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

Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

Good luck with your asparagus.

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

I grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house.

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.

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.

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

I seldom meet with characters so inoffensive as my hens and chickings, or minds so well improved as my garden.

I love working in the garden.

I'm usually pretty good in the garden.

It's so easy to grow in the ground! It's truly the easiest thing to grow. You can bring kale to you.

I'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine.

I like gardening.

I used to laugh at my friends who garden, but I now garden. You don't even feel like you're exercising. You're having fun, and you're being healthy at the same time.

Gardening does so much for your brain. You're learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right so that you can eventually enjoy a tomato three months later. I've always been patient, but gardening really helps you with that.

When I think of summertime as a kid, I think of my Grampy's gardens full of tomatoes, buckets heaping with blackberries, and countertops lined with an assortment of Ball jars, ready to can the flavor of summer.

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

My father would go shopping, and he was supposed to buy loo roll or something, but he'd always come back with some fish or shellfish. And we've always had fresh vegetables from the garden. He is a massively keen gardener, so he grew all our tomatoes, artichokes, asparagus - whenever he wasn't working, he was in the garden.

I love to shop at the farmer's market or grab something from the garden and roast that.