Once you engage with the simple enough business of feeding yourself, of soil and water, weather, season and harvest, it becomes personal. It is about you, your family and friends. Food becomes an aspect of those relationships as well as your intimacy with your plot.

A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of this.

Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.

Monty Don Quotes