SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! THE REASON THE GARDENER IS IN A BLOODY WAR IN THE FIRST PLACE IS BECAUSE THE WARRIOR’S ARMY IS PILLAGING THEIR GARDEN!!!
SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! THE REASON THE GARDENER IS IN A BLOODY WAR IN THE FIRST PLACE IS BECAUSE THE WARRIOR’S ARMY IS PILLAGING THEIR GARDEN!!!
That episode really resonated with me as a gardener, the whole “male oafishness” description was extremely accurate and it’s a very well-documented occurrence in the gardening community. If you have a garden you are basically rolling the dice anytime you have a non-gardener mow your lawn, most lawncare businesses are run by guys who will weed whack your entire garden without a second thought unless you explicitly tell them not to.
There is a small island in the middle of our street (owned by the city) that we recently removed all of the grass on and planted native wildflower seeds in two 8 x 30 foot-ish areas after discussion with our neighbors to make sure they were cool with it. Someone who we could not identify, but believe was another neighbor from down the street’s large adult son, randomly walked up the street and weed whacked it in the middle of the work day, so we put up two “WILDFLOWERS, DO NOT MOW” signs right in the middle of the two patches that would be impossible to miss if your were whacking them. He did it two more times until we put up four more signs and he finally stopped. I don’t think it was necessarily malicious, the guy is just an oaf.
It makes me have such mixed feelings about the guys my apartment hires, because on the one hand I know that lawn care employees are overworked, underpaid, and heavily exploited, and I feel bad for them.
But on the other hand they find every single plant in any tiny nook in the complex that isn’t just grass and fucking destroy it, and I fucking hate them and wish their jobs didn’t exist. I planted a little rose bush in an out of the way nook after it outgrew it’s pot, within 48 hours they chopped it the fuck down. Wildflowers? Death.
How can you work with plants all day and seemingly have nothing but hatred for them as a life form
Lawncare is just a completely different animal from gardening. It’s quantity VS quality, very little attention to detail and much more formulaic. Weeds are bad. Grass is good. Grass turn brown, add water. Grass get tall, cut it. Fertilize grass every X weeks. If there’s dirt, add grass seed.
For sure, I was comparing it more to my experience doing farm work when I worked in an agriculture lab.
In the middle of a day of measuring leaves and bagging silks, the time we found watermelons growing in the field we didn’t go “destroy them and move on” we paused and admired
Hell, my sage plant just got squished by some utility workers who came into my backyard to cut down an old utility pole (which wasn’t even in my backyard, it was just the easiest spot for them to reach it).
My natural weed border of chives got killed off by a lawncare company and even more aggressive weeds just took that opportunity to take over the whole raised bed. I felt seen in this episode.
How do you keep plants in your apartment?
I used to go to my dad’s to garden, but that time spent driving after work and doing a rush-job got too exhausting. Unfortunately windowsill plants aren’t allowed and my cat tree tries to kill every living thing in the house, plants included. So these days I just sigh and lament.
I’m sorry to hear that! I hope it turns around somehow