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Garden Joke of the Month

Garden Joke of the Month

Question: What is small, red and whispers?

Answer: A hoarse radish.

Question: What did the radish say when it won the race?

Answer: I really turnip-ed my game!

Question: What do bees wear in the rain?

Answer: Their yellow jackets.

Question: What did one watermelon say to the other on Valentine’s Day?

Answer: You’re one in a melon.

Question: What did one snowman say to the other?

Answer: Do you smell carrot?

Question: Why don’t farmers tell secrets?

Answer: Because the corn has ears

Question: What did the sweet potato say to the pumpkin?

Answer: I yam what I yam

Question: How do you fix a broken tomato?

Answer: Tomato paste

Question: Why was the potato so quiet?

Answer: It was a medi-tater.

Question: Why couldn’t the cucumber stay at the party?

Answer: Because it was all pickled out!

Question: Why did the asparagus take up gardening?

Answer: It wanted to connect with its roots.

Question: What do you call it when worms take over the world?

Answer: Global worming!

Question: Which is the most popular pickle in spring?

Answer: Daffo-dills.

Question: What is a cabbage’s favorite winter activity?

Answer: Shredding the gnar!

Question: What is a snowman’s favorite type of vegetable?

Answer: A snow pea!

Question: What type of clothing is best for November?

Answer: A har-vest.

Question: How do gourds get so strong?

Answer: By pumpkin iron.

Question: What is a potato’s least favorite day?

Answer: Fry-day

Question: What kind of apple throws the best parties?

Answer: Gala apples.

Question: What did the cucumber say to the pickle?

Answer: You mean a great dill to me!

Question: Why is kale never lonely?

Answer: Because they come in bunches.

Question: What grows under your nose?

Answer: Tulips!

Question: What did the gardener say when the kids made fun of her compost pile?

Answer: That’s degrading!

Question: What cover crop do they use at the North Pole?

Answer: Elf-alfa!

Question: Who helped the butternut squash cross the road?

Answer: The crossing gourd!

Question: Why was the pumpkin scared after she was carved into a jack-o-lantern?

Answer: Because she had no guts!

Question: Why do cows tell such good jokes?

Answer: Because they’re a-moooooo-sing!

Question: What kind of headphones to farmers use?

Answer: Beets by Dre!

Question: What do you call a potato that has gone to the dark side?

Answer: Vader tot!

Question: What do farmers talk about when they’re milking cows?

Answer: Udder nonsense!

Question: What did the seed say when the flower was being annoying?

Answer: OK, Bloomer!

Question: What did the farmer say to the tired cow?

Answer: It’s pasture bedtime!

Question: How did the farmer fix the hole in her clothes?

Answer: A cabbage patch!

Question: Why did the chicken cross the playground?

Answer: To get to the other slide!

Question: What’s small, red, and whispers?

Answer: A hoarse radish!

Question: Did you hear about the fox who only ate from gardens?

Answer: I think I’ve heard of herbivore!

Question: Why did everyone think the tree was being mean?

Answer: Because it kept throwing shade!

Question: What did gardener say when she found a fungus on her plants?

Answer: Guess there’s mushroom for improvement.

Question: What did the strawberry say after arguing with the blueberry?

Answer: Let’s berry the hatchet!

Question: What did the gardener say to her favorite plants?

Answer: I love you from my head tomatoes!

Question: Which wise herb did the garlic ask for advice?

Answer: Sage!

Question: What kind of socks does a gardener wear?

Answer: Garden hose!

Question: Why can’t a flower write a bike in the winter?

Answer: Because it has lost its ped/tals!

Question: Which herb is best at cheerleading?

Answer: Encourage-mint!

Question: What did the carrot say to the beet on Election Day?

Answer: Turnip and vote!

Question: What’s orange and sounds like parrot?

Answer: Carrot!

Question: What is the crankiest fruit?

Answer: A crab apple!

Question: What did the greens say when it started to snow?

Answer: Lettuce in! It’s cold outside!

Question: What did the carrot say to the beet during the big game?

Answer: I’m rooting for you!

Question: What do get when you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?

Answer: Pumpkin Pi!

Question: What do you call a beautiful pumpkin?

Answer: Gourd-geous!

Question: What’s the fastest vegetable?

Answer: A runner bean!

Question: What is a kayaker’s favorite lettuce?

Answer: Row-maine!

Question: What does a nosey pepper do?

Answer: Gets jalapeño business!

Question: What kind of soda do trees drink?

Answer: Root beer!

Question: What is  frog’s favorite flower?

Answer: A croak-us!

Question: What do you call strawberries playing guitars?

Answer: A strawberry jam session!

Question: Why did the radish whisper to the turnip?

Answer: Because it was a hoarse radish!

Question: What vegetables will bite you if you aren’t careful?

Answer: Pars-nips!

Question: What did the acorn say when she grew up?

Answer: Geometry! (Gee, I’m a tree!)

Question: Why did the gardner need a cork?

Answer: His garden sprung a leek!

Question: Can I tell you the story about the herb garden?

Answer: No, I don’t have enough thyme!

Question: What do vegetables wish for, more than anything else in the whole world? 

Answer: Peas on Earth!

Question: What is a dancer’s favorite salad?

Answer: SPIN-ach!

Question: Why did the potatoes break up?

Answer: Because they couldn’t see eye to eye!

Question: What did the edamame wear to his wedding?

Answer: A 3-peas suit!

Question: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?

Answer: Pumpkin pi!

Question: What is small, red, and whispers?

Answer: A hoarse radish!

Question: What is a taxi driver’s favorite kind of vegetable?

Answer: CABbage!

Question: How do new gardeners learn?

Answer: By trowel and error!

Question: Why do melons have such fancy weddings?

Answer: Because they cantaloupe!

Question: Which vegetable does a sailor hate?

Answer: Leeks!

Question: What did the DJ say at the garden party?

Answer: Lettuce turnip the beet!

Question: What does corn say when it feels embarrassed?

Answer: Aw, shucks!

Question: What do chickens grow on?

Answer: Eggplants!

Question: What’s a zucchini’s favorite sport?

Answer: Squash!

Question: Why should you never tell secrets on a farm?

Answer: Because the potatoes have eyes and the corn have ears!

Question: What do you call a carrot with corners?

Answer: A square root!

Question: What do you call a duck that is afraid to get into the water?

Answer: A chicken.

Question: What vegetable is most closely related to people?

Answer: The human-BEAN!

Question: What is the worst vegetable to have on the grill?

Answer: Chard!

Question: What did the CSA members say to each other as they were approaching the exit on the highway?

Answer: “This must be the fork to farm!”

Question: What did one lettuce say to the others lettuces when they saw a rabbit coming?

Answer: “Everyone, romaine calm!”

Question: What do carrots do in their free time?

Answer: Veg out!

Question: What do you call a bee that lives in America?

Answer: A USB!

Question: What kind of flower gives the best kisses?

Answer: Tulips!

A veggie dialogue:

Fungi: “Knock, knock.”

Broccoli: “Who’s there?”

Fungi: “It’s fungi. Can I come in?”

Broccoli: “Sure, but there’s not mushroom in here!”

Question: What do you call a 100 year old wizard who never wears shoes and lives on garlic?

Answer: A super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis! (Say it fast with a sing-song voice and think of Mary Poppins!)

Question: What did one chickpea say to the other?

Answer: Hummus a tune!

Some varieties of chickpeas DO grow in Wisconsin! Yum!

Question: How did the farmer fix his jeans?

Answer: A cabbage patch.

Thanks to Melissa Hayes for finding this joke!

Question: How do new gardners learn?

Answer: By trowel and error

Thanks to Erin Moriearty for finding this joke!

Question: What do you call an angry pea?

Answer: A grum-pea!

Thanks to Madeleine Fischer for finding this joke!

Question:What is a tomato’s favorite song?

Answer: Down By the Basil

Thanks to Leia Young for inventing this joke!

Question: What is small, red, and whispers?

Answer: A hoarse radish!

Thanks to the Secret Seed Society for that one.

Question: What is Michelle Obama’s favorite vegetable?

Answer: Broccoli (Barack-oli, get it?)

Thanks to Andrew Walsh for inventing this joke!

Question: What do vegetables use to defend themselves?

Answer: Pepper spray.

Question: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?

Answer: Pumpkin pi.

Question: What did the farmer say when he lost all his vegetables?

Answer: “Oh, they’ll turnip somewhere!”

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