Gardening Tips Quotes

Turns out tomato feed is the gift that keeps on giving. It's good for any plant.

Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly.

Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks. The problem is too much wind, too little water and tired compost.

Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.

All the plants in my house are dead - I shot them last night. I was teasing them by watering them with ice cubes.

I always have multiple ladybugs around because they're lucky, and they're good for flowers and the environment.

If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, keeping up its moisture content and gauging its need, the garden will get on very well.

Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun.

Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

Good luck with your asparagus.

When you grow tomatoes, you're going to get a lot of tomatoes. So you want to learn how to preserve.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

I like when she [Martha Stewart] demonstrates how to transport a potted plant while wearing Hermes pants and uses enough packing material to move a whole house. But we're just moving one plant. Really you just put the plant in a truck and go.

These are little packets of light and you need to plant them early in the year and remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning and it's not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.

One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.