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B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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Killers or nurturers?
I remember someone commenting about my love of gardening and the word 'nurturer' was mentioned.
This started me thinking: am I a nurturer or a killer? 
Ok I grow a lot of plants but, I deliberately kill a lot of plants and beasties that I consider to be pests too.
What do you think?
In London. Keen but lazy.

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  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Neither.. we are selective.  
    Utah, USA.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Surely most gardeners are both.
  • PurplerainPurplerain Posts: 1,053
    Definately murderer to the extent of being called "seral killer", but with the nurturing instinct to protect what we like, so big hearted too.
    SW Scotland
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited May 2018
    Selective nurturers  or killers? ;)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2018
    I do enjoy hoiking plants out, hard pruning, pulling out trees, whacking hedges. But then I'm the same in the house - I love getting rid of stuff, clearing out, giving away. So satisfying to have a whole new space. Not so much about killing as pruning or giving away what doesn't fit. It hurts to take out a perfectly healthy plant that I don't want, but I do it more and more as I want to make my garden my own, now that I know more about what I have and who they are.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I try so hard, but it's so hard in the garden and in the house!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • The Bald GardenerThe Bald Gardener Posts: 212
    After a day of hard landscaping, sawing, hammering, painting, digging and raking I'm nurturing a sore back that's killing me. So a bit of both i'd say. :smiley:
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I like the idea that gardeners (and farmers) are custodians of the patch they look after. Once you start looking at it like that it can change your whole perspective on gardening.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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