Today's Funny

I've been working in the yard/garden lately.  Today I was fertilizing the tomato plants.
(warning:  the following conversation might not technically reflect true botanical principles)

Me (spreading fertilizer around the base of the tomato plants)
Lucie:  Mom, what are you doing?

Me:  I am feeding the plants.

Lucie:  Oh.  Isn't that poison?
Me:  Yes, it is for you.  Don't eat it.  But the plants like it.

        (cultivating the fertilizer into the soil)

Lucie:  Why are you doing that?

Me:  The plants like to eat their food in the dirt.

Lucie:  Oh.  Plants don't have mouths.

Me:  That's right.  They eat their food through their roots.

        (watering the newly fertilized plants with the hose)

Lucie:  Why are you getting their food wet?

Me:  They like to eat their food wet.

Lucie:  Oh, like cereal!