Home Gardening Quotes

I have been growing vegetables since I was a boy. When I was about 17 I was the only one of five children living at home. My parents were ill and I took over the vegetable garden and I have had one ever since.

I've got my organic veg patch and fruit; we're very garden-obsessed, my husband and I. He designed a garden for me for Christmas, so beautiful! Alasdhair's very good at the proportion and ground work, and I come in and do the planting and the color scheme.

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

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.

I grow herbs near the back door, and you can grow a wonderful selection of herbs and window boxes... My idea is that you should grow what you eat. There's no point in growing something like celeriac - which is very difficult to grow - if you hate it.

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 am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

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

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

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

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

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

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

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.

Supermarket cherry tomatoes do serve a purpose, but the flavor is vastly different than those from your own garden. Same for broccoli and snap peas.

I have an organic garden and love being able to say, 'I'm going to see what I can pick to throw in my salad.'

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.

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

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

I compost at home. I'm always taking old banana peels, eggshells, coffee beans, or whatever it is, and putting them in a compost bin and then using it in my backyard.