Busy in the rows

You’d think that we’d get awfully tired of going where we’ve been …

September is still summer and still pre-frost, so in between hurricanes here in the Brandywine Valley I’ve been working on the lingering remnants of this year’s garden — still providing a trickle of tomatoes and cucumbers. Hence another thematic list:

“Bad Fruit,” Randy Stonehill
“Dead Flowers,” The Rolling Stones
“Digging in the Dirt,” Peter Gabriel
“Fake Plastic Trees,” Lori McKenna
“Fake Plastic Trees,” Radiohead
“Fake Plastic Trees,” KT Tunstall
“Gardening at Night,” REM
“Good Year for the Roses,” Elvis Costello
“Green Onions,” Booker T. & the MGs
“Grow Grow Grow,” PJ Harvey
“Harvest Festival,” XTC
“Harvest Moon,” Cassandra Wilson
“Harvest Moon,” Neil Young
“In the Garden,” Johnny Cash
“The Invisible Gardener,” Bright Eyes
“The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1,” Neutral Milk Hotel
“Maggie’s Farm,” Bob Dylan
“Maggie’s Farm,” U2
“Nothing But Flowers,” Guster
“Nothing But Flowers,” Talking Heads
“Sadie’s Farm,” Twitchen Vibes
“Secret Garden,” Bruce Springsteen
“Secret Garden,” Madonna
“Sowing the Seeds of Love,” Danni Carlos
“Sowing the Seeds of Love,” Tears for Fears
“Strawberry Fields Forever,” The Beatles
“Stronger Than Dirt,” Tom McRae
“Taking the Farm,” The War on Drugs

No, I don’t have any Lynn Anderson in my iTunes library. But what else is this list missing?

(I thought about including things like the BoDeans’ “Beautiful Rain,” or “Rain in the Summertime,” by The Alarm, but then realized rain songs was probably best left to a whole other list.)