This title or the Scots equivalent "The Gairdner and the Plooman" applies to at least three different songs.*

The one that I am interested in is given by Bronson as version 1 for Child 219 The Gardener (though it is completely different from the other versions under that number). It can also be heard sung by Jean Redpath here (though the recording cuts off part way through the repetition of the first verse at the end).

Bronson's and Jean's versions are certainly the same song, though the tunes are different and corresponding verses come in a different order. It seems reasonably clear that the gardener has been courting the girl, she hasn't been interested and then she takes an interest in the ploughman. But it's then unclear, and different between these two versions, who (the gardener, the ploughman or the girl) is saying what about whom.

Can anyone work out a coherent story from either version?

*I am not concerned with the songs under this title that can be heard here or here