Plant Health Quotes

Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

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.

By cutting the red tape that comes out of Brussels, we will free our farmers to grow more, sell more, and export more great British food whilst upholding our high standards for plant and animal health and welfare.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

You must prune dead or dying wood.

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

As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

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

Organic farming and other earlier methods can be effective, provided they can help us improve soil health and plant health. Plant pesticides like neem and tobacco need to be promoted.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of this.

It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.

Pray how does your asparagus perform?

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

As far as plants are concerned, they can't tell whether that nitrate ion comes from artificial chemicals or from decomposed organic matter.

Compost makes houseplants very happy.

We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple.

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.