SEEDS & WEEDS: The Funniest Things People Have Said About GARDENING

THE FUNNIEST THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT GARDENING 131
Part of my responsibility was to care for the plants, but Aunt Grace was
forever overwatering them or trimming them unnecessarily.
One evening I was telling my husband about Aunt Grace’s disastrous
attentions when our daughter walked in.
“What’s annoying mom?” she asked.
“I think you could say,” my husband replied, “that she has aunts in
her plants.”
Sod off
At the garden center a customer ordered several rolls of sod. After ringing
up the purchase I told him the total.
“That’s too expensive,” he said.
“But it includes tax,” I replied, trying to be helpful.
“I don’t think I’ll need tacks,” he said slowly. “It should stay down by
itself.”
Blast from the past
We had so many cucumbers we were having trouble finding different
ways to use them up. Neither my mother nor I wanted to make one huge
batch of something we’d be eating forever, so I was digging through all