Shalom Harlow Quotes

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

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.

I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.

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

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Use plants to bring life.

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

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

I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.

A seed, after all, is an embryo, a potential plant waiting for its moment to grow. It has what it needs to begin. But it can also put itself on pause. It can wait.

I love working in the garden.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

I garden in my Brooks Brothers pajamas and straw hat.

Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.

Some people have dogs... I like leaves. I like plants, and I like flowers too. Ecstasy is big in my life.

Working with the earth is peaceful for me.

I like gardening.

We grow our own vegetables.

Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.

By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending it carefully and with love, your world and everyone's else's world too, becomes a better place.

I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment.

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

I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves.

A plant I have grown for years without really taking much notice of is epimedium. You know how it is: someone gives you a plant, you stick it in the ground and somehow it never presses the trigger. There is no intimacy.

I'm always surrounded by crazy people, but when I come back to the country I'm into my plants, I love gardening, I love bird watching and I absolutely love nature.