Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for September 12, 2023

Fiber and flavorful, Wanda. No thanks, I’ll eat mine like Hammie does, too.

Why would you tell your children that? Now Zoe won’t want to eat green beans.

Wanda should have been more explicit.

Amazingly there is a web site called Just Seeds. Unfortunately for me they are located at Wrexham, UK. guess I’ll stick with Pinetree Garden Seeds.

Well said Hammie.

That’s kinda weird.

Agreed Hammie!

Zoe will want a pony to provide the horse manure

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

I’ve never tried salt on green beans. I’ve never tried Wanda’s suggestion either.

Call me old-fashioned, but same here.

“Manure is a great word if you think about it. There’s a “ma” in the front and then there’s a “newer”. Ma-newer. " – G. Costanza.

I remember this joke from when I was in elementary school.

My wife’s great aunt lived in the heart of Poughkeepsie, NY and was an avid gardener. When a delivery persons horse would leave some road apples in front of the house she would run out with dust pan and broom to collect them for use in her garden.

And her eyes went blank

Funny

Hammie’s all like, “Sure, whatever, you do you, mom.”

I have to agree with Hammie, and a dash of dry grated Parmesan cheese.

Hammie, Bacon salt is so much better than just plain salt on green beans and most vegetables for that matter.

Kirkman and Scott, you both owe me a new keyboard. Turns out my keyboard is not spitting your coffee out laughing proof!

The kids will love looking after their new pony. And won’t the neighbors be surprised.

Manure as fertilizer? Been there, dung that!

Ah the old Strawberries and Whipped Cream joke.

Lettuce know how that works out.

This reminds me of the old kids’ joke “Do you wipe yourself with your right hand or your left hand?” “The right”. “That’s funny, I use toilet paper”.

LOL

I’m surprised Hammie don’t wants to try a new thing.

First Man: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

Second Man: It grows very well, because I use a little hoe

I put manure on my rhubarb, manure on my chard

First Man: You put manure on your rhubarb? We put cream on ours.

(Old Benny Hill gag)

My father used horse manure on his lawn, ONCE! He wound up cutting it every 3 days! I grow yellow pole beans and I don’t need much of anything. I’ve been eating beans almost every day for over a month.

I would have thought Hammie would LOVE that!

How will butter and salt help green beans to grow?

Maybe she should use the horse material on Hammie to help him to grow.

As if HE even EATS green beans! LOL!

Oh, well done, Hammie!

Well so much for experiencing new tastes!!

Well that’s what they grow most commercial mushrooms in, I drive by a plant once a month and if it’s harvest time you know about a mile away.

horse apples are great fertilizer.

That was very funny :)

Hammie, a budding Jay Leno…

Now, that’s funny!

I’m with you Hammie.

Good call kid…..

My father had a huge garden and every year we’d go to a local stable and fill up trashcans with manure. We’d spread it on the garden at the beginning of winter and then plow it under in the spring. Not only did everything grow great but there were tons of earthworms for fishing.

…or how about butter, salt, AND manure! …(I’m actually surprised Hammie eats any veggies at all!)

I live in a rural town with a lot of farmers and you can tell when it is spring time without looking at the calendar, just sniff and you will smell the horse manure they are putting on their crops.

Love the contrast between mother and son!

That Hammie! Too Funny (⁠✿⁠^⁠‿⁠^⁠)

Context is everything.

Horse manure will kill your green beans and everything else if you don’t ensure that the horses haven’t been pastured on – or fed hay from a field – that hasn’t been treated with persistent weed killer. It passes harmlessly through the horse, but will kill your garden. Bean or pea seedlings are good way to check if it’s safe — they’re sensitive to it.

Rick and Jerry shook so hard at their own joke (soooo funny!) they made Wanda into a cyclops!

Wanda only has one pupil in the third panel

OMG! Haha! (＾▽＾)