Thanks to the Garden Djinn, I learned a new song and a new word today. My Gardening Things is sung to the tune of “My Favorite Things” from the film The Sound of Music.
My Gardening Things
Catalogs breeding and seedlings are sprouting
Weeds have arisen and beds are a-calling
Spring has erupted and bitten us all
There’s so much to do here – Hope I’m done by this fall!Veggies and flowers are begging attention
grass isn’t growing – but it’s worth a mention
planning and plotting a new summer scene
there’s so much to do here – I’m ready to scream!Pansies to dead head and crocus to divide
shrubs that need trimming and mulches to provide
bugs to be vanquished and compost to turn
there’s so much to do here – must avoid a sun burn!When the bugs bite
When the weeds thrive
When I’m feeling sad
I simply remember my gardening things
And then I don’t feel so bad!
words by Talena
If you’re going to have a tune stuck in your head, might as well have words that apply to your life to sing it to. I wish I had Winnie-the-Pooh’s or Frances
As for that new word I learned, you’ll have to read the comments to this post to find out.
About Kathy Purdy
Kathy Purdy discovered the joys of writing in fourth grade, when she started corresponding with a former classmate. She's been writing letters ever since, first on looseleaf, then electronically, and now as weblog entries. That makes you, the blog reader, her pen pal. Her first independent (though frustrating) attempts at gardening were made in high school, though the gardening bug didn't bite hard until her mid-thirties, when she found herself mistress of a rural home on 15 acres. • USDA Hardiness Zone:4 • AHS Heat Zone: 3 • Location: rural; Southern Tier of NY • Geographic type: foothills of Appalachian Mountains • Soil Type: acid clay • Experience level: intermediate • Particular interests: colchicums, narcissus, cottage gardening, NY native plants, gardening with/for children
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I think these are the words.
Inch by inch, row by row
Gonna make this garden grow
Gonna mulch it deep and low
Gonna make it fertile ground
Inch by inch, row by row
Please bless these seeds I sow
Please keep them safe below
‘Till the rain comes tumbling down
Pullin’ weeds and pickin’ stones
We are made of dreams and bones
Need a place to call my own
‘Cause the time is close at hand
Grain for grain, sun and rain
Find my way in nature’s chain
Till my body and my brain
Tell the music of the land
CHORUS
Plant your rows straight and long
Season with a prayer and song
Mother Earth will make you strong
If you give her loving care
CHORUS
[The Anti-Garden Verses - by someone whose name Arlo forgot]:
Slug by slug, weed by weed
Boy this garden’s got me t’d
All the insects come to feed
On my tomato plants
Sunburt face, skined up knees
The kitchen’s chocked with zuchinis
I’m shopping at the A&P’s
Next time I get the chance
[End of Anti-Garden Verses]
Old crow watching from a tree
He’s got his hungry eye on me
In my garden I’m as free
As that feathered thief up there
Then finally, the chorus again…..
and any tips on sweet peas would be welcome *
The song that comes to my mind first about gardening is David Mallet’s Garden Song.
it starts-
Inch by inch, row by row,
gonna make this garden grow
anyone remember it?