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

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“A Scientific Explanation of Why It’s Not Our Fault That the Neighborhood
Squirrels Started Eating Coffee Beans,” by Prisca Bejjani, reprinted with
permission from Prisca Bejjani.
“The Plant Passion Test,” originally titled “The Mad Gardener Society,” reprinted
with permission from David Hobson. home.golden.net/~dhobson/madsoc.htm.
“An Olympic Gold for Gardening” reprinted with permission from David
Hobson. This material is from his book Diary of a Mad Gardener: To Boldly
Grow Where No One Has Grown Before, in the chapter entitled “The Grueling
Garden.” Visit “David Hobson’s Green Trips” at gardengripe.blogspot.com.
Material by Henry Beard and Roy McKie from Gardening: A Gardener’s
Dictionary (Workman Publishing, 1982).
Some material in “You’ve Been Gardening Too Long When . . .” was adapted
from David Hobson’s Garden Humour website, where visitors contributed items:
home.golden.net/~dhobson/contoolong.htm
Material from Ivor Grump, The Grumpy Gardener’s Handbook, reprinted with
permission from Pavilion Books.
“I’m busy worrying about being killed by our mango tree,” by Dave Barry, from
Dave Barry Talks Back (1992), reprinted with permission from Penguin
Random House.
“The Great Kale Inhale,” adapted from Amber Jamieson, “Kale: ‘The disgusting
new frontier of major league eating,” The Guardian, July 10, 2016.
Big props to the genius humorists in the Twittersphere.
Huge shout-out to Unknown for their contributions.
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