Comments on: Life, Death and Unnatural Acts in the Vegetable Garden

By: felder rushing

felder rushing — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:32:34 +0000

“Are you cruel enough to be a gardener?” – the late, great Elizabeth Lawrenece, American garden writer

By: The Radishes. | From Under The Fort

The Radishes. | From Under The Fort — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:35:48 +0000

[...] out I’m not only psychotic, I’m also wrong. I read this article this morning on the Smithsonian Magazine Food & Think blog about how sometimes, gardening just [...]

By: Jean March

Jean March — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:23:27 +0000

You would like this book written by a friend of mine:
“Weeds of the Northeast”
http://www.amazon.com/Weeds-Northeast-Comstock-books-Richard/dp/0801483344

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:50:13 +0000

Congratulations on your good looking garden. (Nice photo)
You could use biodegradable newspaper laid down in layers and then covered with mulch or grass clippings. This should keep the weeds at bay for a couple of months depending on amount of rain and how many layers of paper are laid down.
But, you are absolutely right that man has been tinkering with the natural selection of plants for ions. But weeds show us that we are not in control! :)

By: Life, Death and Unnatural Acts in the Vegetable Garden – Smithsonian (blog)

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:03:58 +0000

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By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:37:24 +0000

While I see what you mean. I gardening is a natural act, because as people often forget, we are nature. This doesn’t mean that everything we do is natural, but gardening is something that lies more in the gray areas of human control. We live to think we are controlling things and sure, we’ve coaxed things along for centuries outside of natural selection, but that is still a natural process.

I think the real epiphany is when you realize that sense of you control that you think you have over nature by gardening is simply an illusion, which you’ve already discovered in your and all gardeners precarious relationship between the weed and the intentional growth. In paying attention to the natural processes within your assumed realm of control, that is where nature looms back in.