Yea, I wonder the same. It’s hard to keep some plants alive- especially if you genuinely have little knowledge about plants.
I have a garden but it took a lot of research to learn how to keep my plants alive and that was after killing the first set, because it turns out “just water” isn’t actually all there is to it.
But that inspired me to put the call back out on Twitter (now known as X) for women to share their stories.
Seems like a pretty strong selection bias.
I say this as a woman who a) is bad at plants and b) has only had plants killed by another woman. There is an element of seeing my things as forgettable/less valuable so I can see how the author sees the whole thing as gendered, but I’m not convinced.
Yea, I wonder the same. It’s hard to keep some plants alive- especially if you genuinely have little knowledge about plants.
I have a garden but it took a lot of research to learn how to keep my plants alive and that was after killing the first set, because it turns out “just water” isn’t actually all there is to it.
I wonder that too.
Seems like a pretty strong selection bias.
I say this as a woman who a) is bad at plants and b) has only had plants killed by another woman. There is an element of seeing my things as forgettable/less valuable so I can see how the author sees the whole thing as gendered, but I’m not convinced.