Jokes, Puns, Riddles, One-Liners and Humor

for Gardeners

 

Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo

 

 

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Quotes  ...  Links  ...  References

 

 

 

 

Jokes and Humor for Gardeners

 

 

 

 

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat
and some old clothes.  And with a hoe in one hand and a cold
drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.
-  Texas Bix Bender, Don't Throw in the Trowel

 

 

 

 

Why do potatoes make good detectives?
Because they keep their eyes peeled.

 

 

 

 

My wife's a water sign.  I'm an earth sign.
Together we make mud.
-  Rodney Dangerfield

 

 

 

 

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What do you get if you divide the circumference 
of a pumpkin by its diameter?
Pumpkin pi.

 

 

 

How do you lead a horse to water?
With lots of carrots.

 

 

 

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid
and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United
States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-   George Bush, U.S. President, 1990

 

 

 

Why do cowboys always die with their boots on?
So they won't stub their toes when they kick the bucket.

 

 

 

Vegetables - Quotes for Gardeners

 

 

 

What do you call a stolen yam?
A hot potato.

 

 

 

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill
except for learning how to grow in rows.
-  Doug Larson

 

 

Everyone has these on their face?
Tulips

 

 

 

I have no plants in my house.  They won't live for me. 
Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.
-  Jerry Seinfeld

 

 

 

Why did the horse go behind the tree?
To change his jockeys.

 

 

 

What vegetable can tie your stomach in knots? 
String beans.

 

 

 

What did the carrot say to the wheat?
Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.
-   Shel Silverstein

 

 

 

The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

 

 

 

A farmer purchased an old, run-down, abandoned farm with plans to turn it into a thriving enterprise. The fields
were grown over with weeds, the farmhouse was falling apart, and the fences were broken down.  During his first
day of work, the town preacher stops by to bless the man's work, saying, "May you and God work together to make
this the farm of your dreams!"   A few months later, the preacher stops by again to call on the farmer.  Lo and behold,
it's a completely different place.  The farm house is completely rebuilt and in excellent condition, there is plenty
of cattle and other livestock happily munching on feed in well-fenced pens, and the fields are filled with crops planted
in neat rows.  "Amazing!" the preacher says. "Look what God and you have accomplished together!"
"Yes, reverend," says the farmer, "but remember what the farm was like when God was working it alone!"

 

 

 

God made rainy days, so gardeners could get the housework done.

 

 

 

My mother's menu consisted of two choices:
Take it or leave it.
-   Buddy Hackett

 

 

 

What kind of socks does a gardener wear?
Garden hose.

 

 

 

Why are husbands like lawn mowers? 
They are difficult to get started, emit foul smells,

and don't work half the time.
-  Author Unknown

 

 

 

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
-   Charles Dudley Warner

 

 

What do you call two young married spiders?
Newly webs.

 

 

 

What does the letter "A" have in common with a flower?
They both have bees coming after them.
- Kim Roblin

 

 

 

How do you compare apples and oranges?
By their nutritional value.
-   Marshall Elizer

 

 

Flowers - Quotes for Gardeners

 

 

 

Hard work doesn't harm anyone,
but I do not want to take any chances.
-  Author Unknown

 

 

What was green and a great trick shooter?
Annie Okra

 

 

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.
-   Henry Beard

 

 

 

Every garden is unique with a multitude of choices in soils,
plants and themes.  Finding your garden theme is as easy
as seeing what brings a smile to your face.
-  Teresa Watkins, Gardening With Soul

 

 

 

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
-   Lou Erickson


 

"No man in the world has more courage than the man
who can stop after eating one peanut."
-   Channing Pollack

 

 

 

What gets bigger the more you take away?
A hole.

 

 



If April showers bring May flowers,
what do May flowers bring?
Pilgrims.

 

 

 

Food - Quotes for Gardeners

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remember that gophers also need to make a living; 
preferably in somebody else's garden.
When all the chores are done, the avid gardener will invent new ones.
Your dog will always shit near your favorite garden seat.
Knee: a device for finding rocks in your garden.
Gardening is a Sport.  Hoe for It!
Never underestimate the power of those that like things neat and tidy.
I once read about the dangers of gardening, 
so I quit reading for two weeks.
If you need five tools to solve a problem in the garden, 
four of them will be easy to find.

-  Mike Garofalo, Pulling Onions

 

 

 

 

Why is a barn so noisy?
All the cows have horns.

 

 

 

 

Botanists have developed a vegetable that eliminates 
the need to brush your teeth.
Bristle sprouts.

 

 

 

 

 

The real meaning of plant catalog terminology:

"A favorite of birds" means to avoid planting near cars, sidewalks, or clotheslines.

"Grows more beautiful each year" means "Looks like roadkill for the foreseeable future."

"Zone 5 with protection" is a variation on the phrase "Russian roulette."

"May require support" means your daughter's engineering degree will finally pay off.

"Moisture-loving" plants are ideal for landscaping all your bogs and swamps.

"Carefree" refers more to the plant's attitude than to your workload.

"Vigorous" is code for "has a Napoleonic compulsion to take over the world."

"Grandma's Favorite" -- until she discovered free-flowering, disease-resistant hybrids.

 

 

 

 

What did the banana do when it saw the monkeys?
Split.

 

 

 

Fruits and Nuts - Quotes for Gardeners

 

 

 

A woman's garden is growing beautifully but the darn tomatoes won't ripen.  There's a limit to the number of uses for green tomatoes and she's getting tired of it.  So she goes to her neighbor and says, "Your tomatoes are ripe, mine are green. What can I do about it?''  Her neighbor replies, "Well, it may sound absurd but here's what to do. Tonight there's no moon. After dark go out into your garden and take all your clothes off.  Tomatoes can see in the dark and they'll be embarrassed and
blush. In the morning they'll all be red, you'll see.''  Well, what the heck?   She does it.  The next day her neighbor asks
how it worked.  "So-so,'' she answers,  "The tomatoes are still green but the cucumbers are all four inches longer.''

 

 

 

What is a Honeymoon Salad?
Lettuce alone, with no dressing.

 

 

 

 

A man should never plant a garden larger
than his wife can take care of.   

-   T.H. Everett

 

 

 

 

A Veggie New Age Song:

Peas would rule the planets,
and love would clear the bars.
It was the dawning of the Age of Asparagus.

 

 

 

Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-   N. D. Stice

 

 

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
-  Dorothy Parker

 

 

 

My wife said that if I buy any more plants he would leave me.
Damn!  I'm going to miss that woman.

 

 

 

Grow your own dope, plant a man.

If a man is alone in the garden and speaks,
and there is no woman to hear him,
is he still wrong?

 

 

 

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life
you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being." 
-   David Hobson, The Mad Gardener

 

 

 

I think, therefore I Yam.
-  Ratbert

 

 

 

Have you heard of the garlic diet?
You don't lose much weight, but from a distance 
your friends think you look thinner.

 

 

 

I bought an ant farm.  I don't know where I am 
going to get a tractor that small!
-   Steven Wright

 

 

 

What what can you make from baked beans and onions?
Tear gas.

 

 

The History of Gardening: From Ancient Times to the 20th Century

 

 

 

What do you call a grumpy and short tempered gardener?
A SnapDragon.

[Karen, my wife, answered "Mike!"]

 

 

 

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if
green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
-  Doug Larson

 

 

 

I have a rock garden.  Last week three of them died.
-  Richard Diran

 

 

 

What kind of flowers do you give to King Tut?
Chrysanthemummies.

 

 

 

I'm Charley's aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from.
-  Brandon Thomas

 

 

 

Definitions

Boy:  Noise with dust on it.
Chickens:  The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
Dust:  Mud with the juice squeezed out.
Mosquito:  An insect that makes you like flies better.
Raisin:  A grape with a sunburn. 
Chemicals: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.

 

 

Questions

What would we have called the color orange if it wasn't a fruit?
Why does cleave mean both split apart and stick together?
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
If corn oil comes from corn, what does baby oil come from?

 

 

 

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining,
the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing,
and the lawn mower is broken.
-   James Dent

 

 

 

Where did the vegetables go to have a few drinks?
The Salad Bar.

 

 

 

What do you call a mushroom who buys everyone drinks and is the life of the party?
A fun-gi.

 

 

 

Why don't you ever iron a four-leaf clover?
You might press your luck.
-  Elaine Valvezan

 

 

 

What lives in winter, dies in summer,
and grows with its root upward?
An icicle.

 

 

 

Wanted:  Man to take care of cow that does not smoke or drink.

 

 

 

Heart Beet

Do you carrot at all for me?
My heart beets for you,
With your turnip nose
And your radish face.
You are a peach.
If we cantaloupe,
Lettuce marry.
Weed make a swell pear.

 A Rocket in My Pocket: Rhymes and Chants of Young Americans

 

 

 

 

Green Way Blog by Michael P. Garofalo

 

 

 

 

 

After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.
Murphy's Laws

 

 

 

 

    People are like Potatoes!   

    Some people never seem motivated to participate, but are content to watch others ...
    They are called "Speck Tators."

    Some are always looking to cause problems and really get under your skin ...
    They are called "Aggie Tators."

    There are those who are always saying they will, but somehow, they never get around to doing  ...
    We call them "Hezzie Tators."  
            -  From the laughalot-owner on the Net

 

   Some folks spent a lot of time sitting and peering into their garden ... 
   They are called "Medi Tators." 

   There are those that try to maximize their crop yields while reducing expenses ...  
   We call them "Compu Tators."
            -  Mike Garofalo

   

 

 

 

Work - Quotes for Gardeners

 

 

 

I guess cows aren't into the four food groups,
especially when they are two of them.
-  Anthony Clark

 

 

 

What do you call it when worms take over the world?
Global Worming.

 

 

 

There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's.
-  Clyde Moore

 

 

 

You Might be a Redneck Gardener If:

You mow your lawn and find a wheelbarrow.
A half moon reminds you of your fat husband pulling weeds.
You think a chain saw is a musical instrument.
You move your refrigerator and the grass underneath it is yellow.
Kudzu covers your arbor.
You don't water your front yard rather than mow it.

You know how many bags of fertilizer your car can hold.
You've ever cleaned your house with a leaf blower.
You empty the trash when you have enough to fill up the pickup. 
You can amuse yourself for more that an hour with a hose.
You've been cited for reckless driving on a riding lawn mower. 
You move your weed-eater to take a bath.

-  Culled and Revised by Mike Garofalo

 

 

 

When did my wild oats turn to prunes and all bran?
-   Lucy Parker

 

 

 

Trees - Quotes for Gardeners

 

 

 

What kind of tree has hands?
A palm tree.

 

 

 

What do you call a cow  who works for a gardener?
A lawn moo-er.

 

 

 

A Riddle: 

There was a green house.
Inside the green house there was a white house
Inside the white house there was a red house.
Inside the red house there were lots of babies.


Answer:  A Watermelon.

 

 

 

 

Botany I - Some Wrong Answers

Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.
Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas.
The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects.
Germinate: To become a naturalized German.
Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot.

 

 

 


Women are like fine wine.  They all start out fresh, fruity and
intoxicating to the mind and then turn full-bodied with age until
they go all sour and vinegary and give you a headache.
-  Male Author Unknown 

 

 

 

 

I always thought a yard was three feet,
then I started mowing the lawn.
-  C.E. Cowman

 

 

 

What vegetable might you find in your basement?
Cellar-y.
-  Emily Kianka

 

 

 

What is green and goes to a summer camp?
A Brussels' scout.

 

 

 

 

What do you get when you cross a canary and a lawn mower?
Shredded tweet.

 

 

 

Why did the tomato turn red?
Because it saw the salad dressing.

 

 

 

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer
is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible
exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats.
-  Woody Allen

 

 

 

What kind of flowers grow in outer space?
Ipomoea alba, Helianthus annuus, Pentas lanceolata, and Cosmos
[Moonflowers, Sunflowers, Star Clusters, Cosmos]

 

 

 

Do you want to hear a gruesome story?
A farmer planted a pumpkin seed.
He watered it and cared for it very well,
and soon it grew some, and grew some ....

 

 

                               When I asked you to water the plants,
                               I did not expect you'd unzip your pants.
                                                    -   Mike Garofalo, Cuttings - July

 

 

 

What do you get if you cross a four leaf clover with poison ivy?
A rash of good luck.

 

 

 

March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.
-  Probably May West

 

 

Cloud Hands: Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong

 

 

 

If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi?

 

 

A man should never plant a garden larger than his wife can take care of. 
-   T.H. Everett

 

 

A man walks into a flower shop "I'd like some flowers please."
"Certainly, Sir. What did you have in mind?"
He shrugs "Well I'm not sure, I uh, I uh, I uh..."
"Perhaps I could help.  What exactly have you done?"

 

 

 

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning towards sunlight.
-  Rita Rudner

 

 

 

 

Clear indications that you have too much Zucchini:
 

Your neighbor finds them every morning in his mailbox.
You are eating it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, snacks too.
You have a flute made out of a Zucchini.
The stores pay you to take some off their shelves.
Even the field mice stop eating it.
You till under the Zucchini plants, but still have more today than you had yesterday.
Nightmares about a giant Zucchini wakes you in the night.
Your kids are using it for building blocks.
You spray your zucchini plants with sugar water to attract insects. But, they won't bite.

 

 

 

 

Knock knock!
Who's there?
Honeydew!
Honeydew who?
Honeydew you want to come out tonight?

 

 

 

Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
-   Ogden Nash

 

 

 

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
-  Lewis Mumford

 

 

 

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way
to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.
- Dave Barry

 

 

 

 

Checking the menu, a restaurant customer ordered a bowl of vegetable 
soup.  After a couple of spoonfuls, he saw a circle of wetness right under 
the bowl on the tablecloth.  He called the waitress over and said, "It's all 
wet down here. The bowl must be cracked."  The waitress said, "You 
ordered vegetable soup, maybe it has a leek in it."

 

 

 

Farmers are real experts,
they are often outstanding in their fields.

 

 

It has been so dry this week,
the trees are whistling for the dogs.

 

 

What is the difference between boogers and spinach?
You can't get your kids to eat spinach.

 

 

 

Don't force it; get a larger hammer.
Anthony's Law of Force

 

 

 

My mother-in-law grows a great patch of potatoes.  In fact, to 
get them off to a good start, she plants each seed potato in a 
small paper bag.  It keeps the dirt out of their eyes.

 

 

 

Slogans, Sayings, Quips, One-Liners, Signs, Bumper Stickers
For Gardeners

 

 

 

What do you call it when someone
commits murder with an apple?
Malus Aforethought!

 

 

 

 

The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over
never weeded a garden.
-  Ray D. Everson

 

 

 

Weeds - Quotes for Gardeners

 

 

 

What vegetable do you need a plumber for?
A Leek.

 

 

 

What insect is musical?
A humbug.

 

 

 

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems
of newly planted flowers and vegetables.
-  Henry Beard

 

 

 

 

Cabbage always has a heart;
Green beans string along.
You're such a Tomato,
Will you Peas to me belong?
You've been the Apple of my eye,
You know how much I care;
So Lettuce get together,
We'd make a perfect Pear.
Now, something's sure to Turnip,
To prove you can't be Beet;
So, if you Carrot all for me
Let's let our Tulips meet.
Don't Squash my hopes and dreams now,
Bee my Honey, dear;
Or tears will fill Potato's eyes,
While Sweet Corn lends an ear.
I'll Cauliflower shop and say
Your dreams are Parsley mine.
I'll work and share my Celery,
So be my Valentine.

 

 

 

 

What runs but never gets tired?
Water.


 

 

If, instead of talking to your plants, you yelled at them,
would they still grow, only to be troubled and insecure?

 

 

 

Vegetarians - nothing wrong with vegetarians.
Some of my best friends are vegetarians.
Admittedly, they're also quadrupeds....
-  Peter Anderton

 

 

 

Belladonna: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English, a deadly poison.
-  Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

 

 

 

    A new business was opening and one of the owner's friends wanted to send
him flowers for the occasion.  The flowers arrived at the new business site and
the owner read the card: "Rest in Peace."
    The owner was annoyed, and called to complain."Sir, I'm really sorry for the

mistake, and sorry you were offended," said the florist. "But even worse, somewhere
there is a funeral taking place today, and they have flowers with a note saying,
"Congratulations on your new location."
Flower Jokes

 

 

 

What do you call a country where the people drive only pink cars?
A pink carnation.

 

 

Your nose is the scenter of your face.

 

 

 

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly
cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
-  Langston Hughes

 

 

 

 

Men are like a fine wine.  They all start out like
grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and
keep them in the dark until they mature into
something you'd want to have dinner with.
-  Female Author Unknown


 

 

Your first job is to prepare the soil.  The best tool for this is your neighbor's
motorized garden tiller.  If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller,
suggest that he buy one.
-  Dave Barry

 

 

 

Even if the farmer intends to loaf,
he gets up in time to get an early start.
--E.W. Howe

 

 

Gardening Palindromes

Mister owl ate my metal worm.

 

 

 

What did Santa Claus say when he walked through a garden?
Hoe!  Hoe!  Hoe!

 

 

 

Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.
-   Sandra Boynton

 

 

 


Dijon Vu - the same mustard as before.
Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
When the going gets tough, the tough get growin'.
When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
Every calendar's days are numbered.
By the time you find greener pastures, you can't climb over the fence.
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.

 

 


What is small, red and whispers? 
A hoarse radish.

 

 

 

Girl Potato and Boy Potato had eyes for each other, and finally they got married and had a little sweet potato, which they called 'Yam.'  Of course, they wanted the best for Yam.

When it was time, they told her about the facts of life.  They warned her about going out
and getting half-baked, so she wouldn't get accidentally mashed, and get a bad name for herself like 'Hot Potato,' and end up with a bunch of Tater Tots

Yam said not to worry, no Spud would get her into the sack and make a rotten potato out of her!   But on the other hand she wouldn't stay home and become a Couch Potato either.

She would get plenty of exercise so as not to be skinny like her Shoestring cousins.

When she went off to Europe, Mr and Mrs. Potato told Yam to watch out for the hard-boiled guys from Ireland, and the greasy guys from France called the French
Fries.

Yam said she would stay on the straight and narrow and wouldn't associate with those high class Yukon Golds, or the ones from the other side of the tracks who advertise their trade on all the trucks that say, 'Frito Lay.'

Mr. and Mrs. Potato sent Yam to Idaho P.U. (that's Potato University) so that when she graduated she'd really be in the Chips.

Yet, in spite of all they did for her, one-day Yam came home and announced she was going to marry Tom Brokaw.  Tom Brokaw!  Mr. and Mrs. Potato were
very upset.  They told Yam she couldn't possibly marry Tom Brokaw because he's just a commentator
 

 

 

 

 

By the time you find greener pastures, you can't climb over the fence.

A tomato in the hand is worth two on the vine.

When the going gets tough, the tough get growin'.

I garden, therefore I weed.

God blesses my garden, but he doesn't weed it!

If life deals you lemons, make lemonade. If it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.

I never met a pumpkin I didn't like..- - Jack O. Lantern

 

 

 

 

    Four score and seven seasons ago, our Fore-Farmers brought forth upon this continent, a new Pumpkin, conceived in  the garden, and dedicated to the proposition that no two pumpkins are created equal.
    Now we are engaged in a great civil contest, testing whether Atlantic Giants, or any other Prize Winner pumpkins so conceived and so enormous, can break all records. We are met in a great pumpkin-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that pumpkin patch, as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that Atlantic Giant might thrive. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do this.
    But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate- we can not hallow-this ground. The brave growers, living and dead, who have struggled here, have fertilized it, far above our our poor power to add or detract soil amendments.  The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what we grew here. It is for us the fanatic growers, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who attempted to grow the record winner here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us pumpkin lovers to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us- that from these honored Atlantic Giants we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of growth- that we growers here highly resolve that these pumpkins shall not have grown in vain- that this pumpkin patch, under God, shall have a new birth of seedlings- and that the World Pumpkin Confederation of the growers, by the growers and for the growers, shall not perish from the earth.

 

 

 

 

 

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Spirituality and Concerns of the Soul

Flowers

Weeds and Weeding

Simplicity and the Simple Life


Pulling Onions:  The Maxims of Gardening
By Michael P. Garofalo

The Essence of Gardening

Working in the Garden

Garden Digest Links

 

Haiku Poetry  -  Links and Bibliography

Cliches for Gardeners and Farmers


The History of Gardening Timeline
From Ancient Times to the 20th Century

 

Tai Chi Chuan and Chi Kung

Short Poems and Haiku by Michael P. Garofalo

Seeing and Vision

Beauty in the Garden


Seasons and Time

Awards and Recognition for this Web Site

Jokes, Riddles and Humor


Religion

The Mental and Spiritual Aspects of Gardening:
Bibliography and Resources

 

 


Search Tips and Advanced Atomz Searching

 


 

The Spirit of Gardening

 

 

Quotes for Gardeners

Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips, Cliches, Adages, Wisdom
A Collection Growing to Over 2,000 Quotes, Arranged by 105 Topics
Many of the Documents Include Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo

 

 

 




 

Jokes and Humor for Gardeners

Links and References

 

 

 

The Art of the Bonsai Potato Kit:  Zen - Without the Wait.  By Jeffrey E. Fitzsimmons, Jim Linna, and Mike Dillon.   Bottled Lightning Inc., 1998.  63 pages.  ISBN: 0966474147.


Beds I Have Known: Confessions of a Passionate Amateur Gardener.
  By Martha Smith.  Moyer Bell Ltd., 1997.   2nd Edition.  320 pages.  ISBN: 1559211938.


Beer Drinking Humor


The Beetless' Gardening Book: An Organic Gardening Songbook/Guidebook: Containing the Poetry of Jam Lemon, Pear Machete, Joychoi Heirloom, and Rutabaga Variety.
   Edited by Chris Roth and Alan Kapuler.  Carrotseed Press, 1997.   112 pages.  ISBN: 0965709027.


A Brief History of Gardening 


Brain Candy


Centre for the Easily Amused


Chet Meek's Page of Puns


Cliches from the Garden


The Complete Murphy's Law:  A Definitive Collection.  
  By Arthur Bloch.   1991.


Country-Fried Bull.
   Features jokes, humorous poems, funny articles and stories about cowboys, farm life, country living, and small town life.


Cowboy Poetry and Other Links


The Devil's Dictionary.
  (Plain text version.)     By Ambrose Bierce, 1911.  A webpage version.


Dialectize a Web Page


Don't Throw in the Trowel: Tips and Quips on Gardening.
  By Texas Bix Bender.  Gibbs-Smith, 1997.  128 pages.  ISBN: 0879057351.


Farm Boy Fresh Market
   Farm Boy's Favorite Jokes


Farm Jokes
 


Farm Yard Jokes
   


Faro's Garden


Free the Gnomes


Frit's Farm


From the Ground Up by Amy Stewart
   


Garden Fun


Garden Digest


Garden Humor


Gardening Cliches


Gardening Jokes: A Gardener's Paradise


Gardeness' Wonderful World


Garden Humor
    The Mad Gardener:  David Hobson.  "To boldly grow where no one has groan before!"  Lots of interesting information, journal, bug humor, links, and good fun at this site.


Gardening in Central California
    By Teman Johnson of Merced


Gayla's Garden


The Germinator: Farming Jokes and Quotes


Gothic Gardening


Green Prints: "The Weeder's Digest."


Hay Eater Jokes


Horsebarn - Horse Jokes
  


How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers


Index to Weedy Verbiage


Is Martha Stewart Living:  A Parody.
   By Tom Connor.  HarperCollins, 1995.  64 pages.  ISBN: 0060951826.


Jokes and Humor Books


Ketzel Levine's Talking Plants


The Loonie Bin of Jokes


Louise's Collection of Garden Quotes
   Some very nice quips and humorous sayings by Louise.


Magazines of Humor, Jokes and Satire.
   Save from 20% to 60%.


Manure Happens.
   By Vilma Volk.


Martha Stewart's December Calendar


Martha Stewart Disease
   By Donna Lypchuck.  Home and gardening excesses - loved the braided font lawn.  


The Maxims of Gardening.
   By Mike Garofalo.


Murphy's Laws
  ...   and many other humorous corollaries and Interdisciplinary Laws.


Murphy's Laws
   The Yahoo Index


Murphy's Laws Great Site


The (No) Problem Garden


The Official Rules at Work:  The Principles, Maxims, and Instructions that Define Your Life on the Job. 
  By Paul Dickson.  Walker and Company, 1996.  120 pages.  ISBN: 0802713173.


The Onion


On Stagnant Pond
   Garden art:   The Pink Flamingo for every garden and pond. 


The Pumpkinsburg Address


Quotes for Gardeners
   A collection growing to over 2,700 quotes arranged by over 130 topics.


Satire and Humor Books


A Sense of Humus:
  A Bedside Book of Garden Humour.
   By Diana Anthony.


Shady Deals


Smyth & Hawk'Em : A Gardening Parody.
   By Tom Connor and Jim Downey.  Harper Collins, 1997.   61 pages.   ISBN: 0060952393.


Soiled Reputations
   By David Hobson


Southern Gardening Humor


The Sparrowglass Papers; or, Living in the Country.
   By Frederick S. Cozzen.   1856.  An urbanite moves to the country.


The Spirit of Gardening


Tools of the Earth:  The Practice and Pleasures of Gardening.  
By Jeff Taylor.  Photographs by Rich Iwasaki.  Chronicle Books, 1998.  176 pages.   ISBN: 0811819094.    Humorous and telling observations about the tools in our backyards:  wheelbarrows, hoes, spades, auger, hammock, etc..    Buy this Book Today!


Vegan Jokes


Vegetable Humor.
   Good for a hearty laugh!  University of California at Davis.    


Weather Lore and Weather Cliches


Where is the Garden of Eden


Weather Lore and Weather Cliches


Why is a Cucumber Better than a Man?
 
Adult humor


Zoodoo Fertilizer


 

 

Quotes for Gardeners

Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips, Cliches, Adages, Wisdom
A Collection Growing to Over 2,000 Quotes,  Arranged by 105 Topics
Many of the Documents Include Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo

 

 

 

 



 

Distributed on the Internet by Michael P. Garofalo

 

I Welcome Your Comments, Ideas, Contributions, and Suggestions
E-mail Mike Garofalo in Red Bluff, California

 

A Short Biography of Mike Garofalo

Jokes, Riddles, and Humor for Gardeners.   Version 4.7

 

 

 

The Spirit of Gardening

Quotes for Gardeners

Haiku and Short Poems

The History of Gardening Timeline

Cloud Hands: Taijiquan and Qigong

Months

Zen Poetry

Fitness and Well Being

Green Way Research

Trees