yes. everything is gendered for gender warriors.
i’m cishet and i have a garden and most women i date think it means I’m secretly gay. the cat doesn’t help.
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Broadfern@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Plant growing is gendered now?
All the cishet men I’ve known who have had gardens grew all kinds of stuff, from fruits and vegetables to culinary herbs and flowers.
Maybe I’m in a bubble but damn I feel sorry for the dudes in the OP.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
jimmux@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
That’s wild. Have they seen how much you can provide from a garden?
Also, having a garden doesn’t preclude one from hunting… whatever that means in the modern era. You can only eat so much meat.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s wild, I’m sorry you gotta deal with that.
Survival skills + demonstrated empathy/care with other living beings are positives for any person. Hopefully you find someone who appreciates that. /gen
Rothe@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Sure, but the OP doesn’t say “gender warriors”, it says “Western man”, which includes a whole lot more people than the tiny minority of those bigots.
Pot8o@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Well it looks like your garden has at least a double function - it filters out women with weird ideas about gender and sexuality 😁
blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Just grow an unkempt beard and wear overalls.
yakko@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Seriously. Who could talk shit on local wildflowers? I’m feeding bees up in this B.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I’m encouraging wild flowers to grow in between my berry bushes.
yakko@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Nice. I just threw down some plugs and watched em go
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Your method is probably easier than stealing berry bushes from the woods and hoping they bring flowers due to birds.
vritrahan@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
berry bushes
smeg@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Same, I don’t know any dudes into gardening that care about that shit. One of them does grow peppers, but it’s because he likes peppers, not because he’s worried growing other stuff (which he also does) will make him look like a pussy.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I grow several varieties of peppers from sweet bells to habaneros, tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, and mint, plus a few odds and ends that look cool at the garden center. I tend to grow plants that either produce more per dollar to grow than I can get at the store, or in the case of tomatoes, of better quality. And mint is eternal.
I also harvest beautyberries that have sprung up wild on my property, and have recently learned that the big weird thing looming over my wood shop is a black walnut tree, so I think I’m gonna go nuts next summer.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
theres whole subs for growing succulents, carnivorous plants, but usually its mostly women in those subs.
glimse@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah this is weirdly sexist. I only know one person this describes because he’s growing weed (legally) in an apartment so he can’t have a outdoor garden
Hell, I know over a dozen men with gardens and only two even grow peppers. Everyone grows tomatoes, though…
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Fresh tomatoes out of your own greenhouse are amazing, that’s why
glimse@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My old coworker told me he had only ever eaten the transparent slices of flavorlessness fast food restaurants call tomatoes until he moved from the slums to a rural town and had a fresh one. It blew his mind so much he went on to spend 15 years as a chef.
My dad’s been growing tomatoes my whole life so I’ve been spoiled
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I grew up somewhat poor, small town with no fast food, post-soviet nation. We had a garden and a greenhouse. I was a teen when I found out how flavourless tomatoes can be. Because we’d always grown our own and didn’t use them as much in the winter when they needed to be bought from the store lol
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Hornworms and squirrells always wreck my tomatoes:(
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I have a raised bed and just hang a loose net around the whole thing so the squirrels can’t get in. Otherwise those little buggers will take one bite out of each tomato and leave the rest for me to clean up.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s not immediately clear to me how this deters such pests.
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Fucking stink bugs! My plants got a little out of hand this year and I had to pluck stink bugs off them every day. Still 60+ lbs of tomatoes tho
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Bro how big is your fuckin’ garden
Also may I have some tomat plz
glimse@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Do what my dad does and plant like 40 of em, they can’t eat them all!
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes, they can.