THINNINGS

(Music: PIGGIES, Harrison) (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)

Have you seen the little thinnings
Lying in the dirt?
And for all the little thinnings
Life's abruptly short
Never got a chance to grow any bigger

Have you seen the bigger thinnings
These are even worse
My mom says when she pulls them out
Forever she'll be cursed
She feels such remorse for all this murder

But in their size there's nothing lacking
They don't care what size they're supposed to be
Eaten now, or eaten later
Either's a premature death if they can't seed

Everywhere there's lots of veggies
Leading shortened lives
We can have them all for dinner
No matter what their size
Thinnings can be prize for anything you're makin'

Comments: "Thinnings" are plants removed from a seedflat or bed because they are growing too closely. Joychoi based this ode to thinnings on a true episode that happened with his mom.

 
Excerpted from The Beetless' Gardening Book: An Organic Gardening Songbook/Guidebook, copyright 1997 by Chris Roth (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)