When I talk to myself, I get sensible answers, and it's the only way to be sure that at least one person is paying attention.
Not sure I buy the theory that plants grow better if you talk nicely to them. I've subjected my weeds to verbal abuse for years, and I've given them the silent treatment, to no avail. Perhaps they're deaf?
Gardening seems to be a solitary occupation for many of us, most of the time, either because a partner has other interests or because there is no else.
I mostly garden alone these days, but don't feel lonely with all the plants and animals around, so perhaps talking to them constitutes some kind of social life...?
But it does make it very easy to strike up a conversation, whenever you bump into a fellow gardener. Yesterday it was the woman on Homebase checkout - the store was quiet and the lady in front was buying plants from the dead shelf - we all had a nice chat!
The foxes have been digging my raised beds where I just planted out my sweet peas. I had put big tiles over the roots to stop the bastards, but I came out this morning and they had moved all the tiles and dug up the plants. God knows what they are suddenly looking for. There's no FBB down there or manure. I'm going to have to net the whole thing. I found myself shouting at foxes that weren't even there.
Is talking to invisible animals a whole new level of nuts?
We have 2 blackbirds that come running to the back door for food. If they turn up at the same time they squabble and l say "if you're going to behave like that, you won't get any." OH thinks I'm mad, l know they understand me !
Yep, talking to plants, worms, birds, ‘gotcha’ if it’s a snail followed by satisfying crunch, shortening names of plants to nicknames, assigning them a gender sometimes. If you want confirmation you are sane it means you are insane
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Not sure I buy the theory that plants grow better if you talk nicely to them. I've subjected my weeds to verbal abuse for years, and I've given them the silent treatment, to no avail. Perhaps they're deaf?