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

THE FUNNIEST THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT GARDENING 137
Weed better be careful
When my two-year-old was riding his tricycle one spring day, I caught
him pedaling through my neighbor’s lovely rock garden, and plants were
strewn everywhere!
I grabbed him off his trike and sent him home to his room. Then I
surveyed the mess.
I knelt down and started to replant as many flowers as I could.
As I worked it dawned on me that Lionel hadn’t been out long enough
to have done this amount of damage.
I stopped replanting and rang my neighbor’s doorbell.
She greeted me cheerfully and, excusing her appearance, explained
she had been weeding her garden all morning.
Older . . . and wiser?
Our friend, who had just turned 60, was doing some spring planting with
the help of his 91-year-old father. When the older man began to put up
beanpoles in straight lines, the son suggested that stacking them tepeestyle
was better.
A disagreement arose.
“Dad,” our friend finally said, sighing, “this is my garden, and I want
to use the tepees.”
The father threw down his hoe and stomped off towards the house.