Comments on: Our Vegetable Love

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:40:37 +0000

Thank you for a completely delightful essay! It offers joy, a twinkle in the eye, and a promise of things to come. I actually had to glance at the calendar to confirm how many days left until the first day of spring AND glance out of the window to smile at gorgeous sun and blue sky – and, in Ohio on a February day, that’s saying something!

Love to garden, love your catalog & website – can’t wait for warmer days! My thanks — !

By: Rhoda

Rhoda — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:43:15 +0000

There is absolutely nothing like picking pole beans in the early morning with me on one side and my husband on the other. We catch up on all the gossip, make plans for the rest of the day, and laughingly point out all the beans the other missed. This has to be one of my favorite parts of gardening.

By: ann million

ann million — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:14:50 +0000

Well, Love started in Eden and I have thought , for some time now, that gardening is an attempt to gain back Eden. There is definitely a strong connection ‘tween love and the garden.

By: Barbara Tiffany

Barbara Tiffany — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:32:27 +0000

Oh, George! You are adorable! and I love what you write!!
Warmest regards on this snowy day–
Barbara Tiffany
Point Pleasant, PA

By: Pierre Kaufke

Pierre Kaufke — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:56:19 +0000

How well said! Should be in poster form in all so-called “marriage counselors’” offices.

By: Jeanne Judd

Jeanne Judd — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:31:56 +0000

What to do with all this romance in the garden.
I need some special counseling since I am all married and happy and I just accepted a huge pea patch plot in my little city, Normandy Park.

Should I return home from my new garden with that drifty, distracted look of one infatuated? My lust will certainly be for the dahlias, and sapliglopsis, salpigosis, I can’t even spell his name! So distracted.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:05:45 +0000

I loved this article. You have a very nice turn of phrase. I agree, love is in the air. Being a widow now, I find love is so much more than just in the air, it’s me being on my knees with my hands deep in rich soil.

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:35:32 +0000

How well you have described our(my husband and I) mutual love of gardening. Both of us having grown up on Wisconsin farms, we have most always been able to have a garden during our married life (47 years now). Being retired we are still able to garden and have not so much vegetable as before but do have several flower and shrub growing areas on our small corner lot. Thanks for the message that helped to identify this long standing mutual interest. Helen

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:23:02 +0000

What a delightful paeon to the riches of gardening a deux. I have a husband I love but not a fellow gardener. I used to garden with my father, and though the love was filial, it was shared passionately in the joy of vegetable gardening.

Thanks for this.

By: Ray Pirrello

Ray Pirrello — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:21:32 +0000

Sir, Happy Valentine’s Day to you. The absence of recent web logs from you raised concerns that you might be sick or in some way incapacitated. Your recent post of February 3 was a welcomed sight. We appreciate the effort that you and your company are making to the gardening community and hope that you will be participating in the 2010 Open Days program.