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On Notions of Defense and Perfection
I've got a bone to pick with Sunset publishing. I was stuffing its direct mail promotional piece for the new edition of Sunset's "Western Garden Book" into my recycling bin, when I spied a line of advertising copy that asked, "Will it (the book) help you DEFEND hermes kelly for sale Knockoff (caps mine) your roses, your lawn, your lemon tree from the pests and particulars of today's West? Absolutely yes."
Ok, have you ever felt a need to "defend" your garden? Why is this us against the outside world mentality world even in the gardening picture?
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Regardless of our various levels of obsession, gardening is a hobby, plain and simple. And, it seems to me if we can't do it without dumping toxins in our own backyards, perhaps it's time we start collecting stamps.
This idea of needing to defend one's garden comes from holding onto a 1950s girdle wearing aesthetic of perfection. You don't want any spots or blemishes on your nature. Nature is forced to submit to your control, mend its wily ways and be smooth, clean and perfect. But perfection is a neurotic ideal with no place in nature or the garden.
Let's take roses. In San Francisco, they're prone to rust and mildew, and if you choose to grow roses, you might, on occasion, have hermes kelly handbag price faux a very ugly plant that is far from perfect. If you can't deal with that without dumping soil destroying poisons in your yard, why not try growing something else?
Snail damage? They've devoured my hyper hybridized variegated abutilon like it's popcorn with extra butter, while the native lavatera stands next to it untouched, like a plate of headcheese at a party. So I'm giving up on abutilons. I don't want to defend my garden from snails for the rest of eternity or start dumping hermes kelly for sale fake poisons in my own backyard to kill them.
This idea of defense got me thinking about our relationship to the piece of land we work and why we garden. March is the beginning of the gardening season for many Bay Area gardeners we're far too delicate to be outside in the rain and dark of winter and also an excellent time to postpone any actual garden work, have a sit, and ponder why we garden.
Everybody's got a cost of hermes kelly bag faux different reason for messing around with the dirt, but for many gardeners, it's about just that messing around with the dirt. Nothing is more fun than getting your hands in the soil, kneeling down on the ground and planting hope and future with every little seedling.
It's fun to go outside, piddle around with your plants, get to know their personalities, pick your own parsley for dinner and cut your own flowers. And if it stops being fun, that's when it's time to change the way you garden, or take a break from the whole business.
We garden for the beauty of it. Plants are fabulous the shades of green, the leaf shapes, the growth patterns and the flowers they're all beautiful. Even the lowly oxalis produces a cheerful little flower that bids you "how dee do."
There is a beauty in the intensity of life packed in every plant. Enter a densely grown garden and you can physically feel the charge in the air from all that living. It's a sensuous allure and there's no reason not to give in to the spell of its beauty.
We garden to get outside of our houses and offices and cars and stores and go to that little piece of nature in our backyard. Gardening connects us with nature and her systems quicker than almost any other hobby. As a gardener, you have to pay attention to things like seasons, daylight, rain and wind. As a gardener, soil is suddenly the object of your affections, and if you compost, your kitchen trash and yard waste become golden and coveted.
This garden as backyard natural science center thinking shows us that our garden is a complex living eco system and not an ornamental extension of the house, to be tidied and dusted.
We can begin to see the effect of healthy soil on our plants. We can see the affects of allowing beneficial insects to co exist in our garden as they scarf up aphids and mealybugs. And, we can anticipate which plants will thrive in our garden and which have no intention of hanging around regardless of our heartfelt efforts.
Knowing what will grow in our gardens, keying into our eco system and working with nature means we're going to have healthier plants and less to "defend." And, we'll be less inclined to dump pesticides and herbicides on our gardens when we see the beauty of nature at work.
The core attitude of striving for perfection, bending nature to our will and defending our gardens leads people to start distancing themselves from the intricacies and interdependencies of nature. We stand with club in one hand and pesticide in another at our garden gate like some kind of quest for fire cavewoman ready to protect our lousy 50 feet of urban garden from intruders, marauders, insects and other boogiemen.
We should garden because it's a fun, beautiful hobby and we want to be in touch with nature. And, when we get to the level where we're thinking "defense," it's time to find something else to do with our spare time. Free. (415) 285 7584. Come to SLUG's beautiful demonstration garden and learn the techniques of composting and how to use compost for healthy plants and hardy vegetables and fruits.
April 7: Composting (in Cantonese and English), Alemany Farmers' Market, 101 Alemany Blvd., San Francisco. Free. (415) 285 7584. Come to the market, support local farmers, and learn to make compost from fruit and vegetable scraps. Check out the mini composting demonstrations and get the information you need to get started.
April 14: Starting Your Own Mushroom Garden, Garden For The Environment, Seventh Avenue at Lawton Street, San Francisco. $10 SLUG members, $15 non members. (415) 285 7584. Learn to grow culinary and medicinal mushrooms in your own San Francisco backyard. Mycological Society will lead this new workshop on the benefits of fungus in your garden.
April 21: School Gardening With Children, 21st Century Academy, corner of Revere Avenue and Rankin Street (one block west of Silver Avenue), San Francisco. $10 SLUG members, $15 non members. (415) 285 7584. The model school garden at 21st Century Academy will be the site for an educational day in the garden. We will discuss fun learning experiences for children and ways to keep them engaged in the garden. This is a great opportunity to network with other school gardeners and to pool our resources.
Organic gardening news, views and tips every Wednesday.
Lisa Van Cleef is a feral office worker who escaped into the garden never to return. The Green Gardener name is, of course, a tribute to the great Joe Carcione, The Greengrocer, whose reporting was useful, no nonsense and funny as hell.
I've got a bone to pick with Sunset publishing. I was stuffing its direct mail promotional piece for the new edition of Sunset's "Western Garden Book" into my recycling bin, when I spied a line of advertising copy that asked, "Will it (the book) help you DEFEND hermes kelly for sale Knockoff (caps mine) your roses, your lawn, your lemon tree from the pests and particulars of today's West? Absolutely yes."
Ok, have you ever felt a need to "defend" your garden? Why is this us against the outside world mentality world even in the gardening picture?
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Regardless of our various levels of obsession, gardening is a hobby, plain and simple. And, it seems to me if we can't do it without dumping toxins in our own backyards, perhaps it's time we start collecting stamps.
This idea of needing to defend one's garden comes from holding onto a 1950s girdle wearing aesthetic of perfection. You don't want any spots or blemishes on your nature. Nature is forced to submit to your control, mend its wily ways and be smooth, clean and perfect. But perfection is a neurotic ideal with no place in nature or the garden.
Let's take roses. In San Francisco, they're prone to rust and mildew, and if you choose to grow roses, you might, on occasion, have hermes kelly handbag price faux a very ugly plant that is far from perfect. If you can't deal with that without dumping soil destroying poisons in your yard, why not try growing something else?
Snail damage? They've devoured my hyper hybridized variegated abutilon like it's popcorn with extra butter, while the native lavatera stands next to it untouched, like a plate of headcheese at a party. So I'm giving up on abutilons. I don't want to defend my garden from snails for the rest of eternity or start dumping hermes kelly for sale fake poisons in my own backyard to kill them.
This idea of defense got me thinking about our relationship to the piece of land we work and why we garden. March is the beginning of the gardening season for many Bay Area gardeners we're far too delicate to be outside in the rain and dark of winter and also an excellent time to postpone any actual garden work, have a sit, and ponder why we garden.
Everybody's got a cost of hermes kelly bag faux different reason for messing around with the dirt, but for many gardeners, it's about just that messing around with the dirt. Nothing is more fun than getting your hands in the soil, kneeling down on the ground and planting hope and future with every little seedling.
It's fun to go outside, piddle around with your plants, get to know their personalities, pick your own parsley for dinner and cut your own flowers. And if it stops being fun, that's when it's time to change the way you garden, or take a break from the whole business.
We garden for the beauty of it. Plants are fabulous the shades of green, the leaf shapes, the growth patterns and the flowers they're all beautiful. Even the lowly oxalis produces a cheerful little flower that bids you "how dee do."
There is a beauty in the intensity of life packed in every plant. Enter a densely grown garden and you can physically feel the charge in the air from all that living. It's a sensuous allure and there's no reason not to give in to the spell of its beauty.
We garden to get outside of our houses and offices and cars and stores and go to that little piece of nature in our backyard. Gardening connects us with nature and her systems quicker than almost any other hobby. As a gardener, you have to pay attention to things like seasons, daylight, rain and wind. As a gardener, soil is suddenly the object of your affections, and if you compost, your kitchen trash and yard waste become golden and coveted.
This garden as backyard natural science center thinking shows us that our garden is a complex living eco system and not an ornamental extension of the house, to be tidied and dusted.
We can begin to see the effect of healthy soil on our plants. We can see the affects of allowing beneficial insects to co exist in our garden as they scarf up aphids and mealybugs. And, we can anticipate which plants will thrive in our garden and which have no intention of hanging around regardless of our heartfelt efforts.
Knowing what will grow in our gardens, keying into our eco system and working with nature means we're going to have healthier plants and less to "defend." And, we'll be less inclined to dump pesticides and herbicides on our gardens when we see the beauty of nature at work.
The core attitude of striving for perfection, bending nature to our will and defending our gardens leads people to start distancing themselves from the intricacies and interdependencies of nature. We stand with club in one hand and pesticide in another at our garden gate like some kind of quest for fire cavewoman ready to protect our lousy 50 feet of urban garden from intruders, marauders, insects and other boogiemen.
We should garden because it's a fun, beautiful hobby and we want to be in touch with nature. And, when we get to the level where we're thinking "defense," it's time to find something else to do with our spare time. Free. (415) 285 7584. Come to SLUG's beautiful demonstration garden and learn the techniques of composting and how to use compost for healthy plants and hardy vegetables and fruits.
April 7: Composting (in Cantonese and English), Alemany Farmers' Market, 101 Alemany Blvd., San Francisco. Free. (415) 285 7584. Come to the market, support local farmers, and learn to make compost from fruit and vegetable scraps. Check out the mini composting demonstrations and get the information you need to get started.
April 14: Starting Your Own Mushroom Garden, Garden For The Environment, Seventh Avenue at Lawton Street, San Francisco. $10 SLUG members, $15 non members. (415) 285 7584. Learn to grow culinary and medicinal mushrooms in your own San Francisco backyard. Mycological Society will lead this new workshop on the benefits of fungus in your garden.
April 21: School Gardening With Children, 21st Century Academy, corner of Revere Avenue and Rankin Street (one block west of Silver Avenue), San Francisco. $10 SLUG members, $15 non members. (415) 285 7584. The model school garden at 21st Century Academy will be the site for an educational day in the garden. We will discuss fun learning experiences for children and ways to keep them engaged in the garden. This is a great opportunity to network with other school gardeners and to pool our resources.
Organic gardening news, views and tips every Wednesday.
Lisa Van Cleef is a feral office worker who escaped into the garden never to return. The Green Gardener name is, of course, a tribute to the great Joe Carcione, The Greengrocer, whose reporting was useful, no nonsense and funny as hell.
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