Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 18, 1972
Transcript:
Zonker: Good morning, wheat patch! Ca va? Gee, I'll bet you're thirsty this morning! Well, here now - quench, my beauties, quench! How are your little rootsy - tootsies this morning? Are they strong?...Oh, no! ...A weed! ...Despair, not l'il wheat patch, I'll get that bad ol' weed out of there in a jiffy! One cannot be too good to one's wheat patch.
first “talk to plants” strip?