Alice B. Toklas Quotes

I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

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

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

I like to walk around. And I have a really big garden in Brooklyn. Growing tomatoes in my backyard feels very rewarding.

I've got a little vegetable patch in my garden. I moved from a city apartment into a house this year and needed something to do outside football.

I find it so exciting to grow your own food.

Good luck with your asparagus.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

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.

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

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, 'Garden, Papa!' and then he eats what he picks.

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

I don't care what anybody says: Nothing is better than a tomato you grow. There's something about it that's different than a tomato you can buy. It's a great thing.

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

There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.

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

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