Gardening Tasks Quotes

I walk out to my backyard garden at certain times of the year, and I can't get 30 feet without stopping for 20 minutes because the goumis need trimming.

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

I don't know too many kids who ask to weed the garden.

The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

I like to garden, particularly mowing grass.

I thought running around trees is a gardener's job and not an actor's. However, if the script demands that I run around trees, well, you never know.