The Gardeners Hymn Recipe

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• All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small; shopping list
• All things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all. shopping list
• But what we never mention, though goodness knows it's true; shopping list
• Lo, when he made the goodies, he made the baddies too. shopping list
• All things spray and swattable, disasters great and small; shopping list
• All things paraquatable, the Lord God made them all. shopping list
• The greenfly on the roses, the maggots in the peas, shopping list
• Manure that fills our noses - He also gave us these: shopping list
• The fungus on the goosegogs, the club root on the greens, shopping list
• The slugs that eat the lettuce, and chew the aubergines; shopping list
• The drought that kills the fuchsia, the frost that nips the buds, shopping list
• The rain that drowns the seedlings, the blight that hits the spuds; shopping list
• The midges and mosquitoes, the nettles and the weeds, shopping list
• The pigeons in the green stuff, the sparrows on the seeds; shopping list
• The fly that gets the carrots, the wasp that eats the plums: shopping list
• How black the gardener's outlook, though green may be his thumbs. shopping list
• But still we gardeners labour, 'midst vegetables and flowers, shopping list
• And pray what hits our neighbour's will somehow bypass ours! shopping list
• All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small; shopping list
• All things wise and wonderful - the Lord God made them all. shopping list
• Dalone Peel: Chronicle of St. Barnabas, Autumn 1997. shopping list