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A master gardener in Seattle told me I was pruning my roses all wrong
She said I was cutting at the wrong angle and leaving stubs that invited disease, so now I cut at a 45-degree slant right above the outward-facing bud. Has anyone else had to unlearn a gardening habit that seemed right but was actually ruining your plants?
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the_jason1mo ago
It's funny how many things we think we're doing right but are just repeating bad info we picked up somewhere. Gardening's a good reminder that most stuff in life works better when you actually know why you're doing it, not just that you're supposed to.
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elizabethg181mo ago
That's a really good point. It's humbling to realize how much of what we do is just habit we picked up without really checking if it's even true. Gardening definitely teaches you that the hard way sometimes.
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grant.nina12d ago
Honestly, I gotta push back a little on this. Ngl, habits aren't always bad just because you didn't question them. Sometimes a habit works fine and you don't need to know the 'why' to get good results. Tbh, overthinking everything can be a waste of time when the simple stuff just works. Like, I don't need to know the chemistry of fertilizer to know my tomatoes grow better when I water them regularly. That mindset of needing a deep reason for everything can make people second-guess solid routines. Gardening's more about trial and error than some deep philosophy, at least from where I'm standing.
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