A few weeks ago, a large part of our large garden was excavated. Because there is no drainage for the water flowing on the big roof, it is getting wet. This action was actually to serve two purposes. Remove the marshland next to the house and hopefully it will remove the highly invasive plant considered an insect in most of the places it has spread. Previous owners have said not to do much about it. However the roots can grow up to 3 m deep and 7 m wide from fast growing plants.
While the grass is growing well, unfortunately there are already knotted stalks starting to push. Which means there were some roots in the ground. We are now going to use a powerful herb. Which will hopefully travel to the original system and kill it completely or at least manage the problem. I’ve started reading a bit about it and glyphosate seems to be the only solution that has a lot of hope for control. Natural alternatives apparently fail miserably. I have never used chemicals in the garden before and do not like the idea of using poisons. So I want to read a little more into it. Thankfully, however, the weed is in a slightly used position (this time around) and has no sidewalks next to it. Which means people don't pass their dogs and obviously rabbits don't take care of it.
SmartSapps is sick again today (flu), so he can't go to day care due to corona restrictions. Although there since he got the flu. Since children are regularly sick at this time of year and parents cannot keep them at home indefinitely. My wife and I both have a lot of work to do right now. So we are both working and looking after smartsteps. But now he is much more independent than he was a few months ago.
I think part of the reason for his growing independence is being forced to spend more time alone. But since we moved home. He was more confident in doing something for himself. He spends “alone” time in the garden and in his house playing or drawing (we’re doing other things nearby). Where our apartment had a little more space than before. His ability to do something for himself loses some weight and gives us the opportunity to do other things.
But we’ve always given him space and I think that’s the third part of it. We believe he will be alone and not do anything too innocent. Despite occasional accidents, he has not yet been able to "break" our trust in the region. She feels that she has a pretty decent level of knowledge and a healthy respect for her environment.
We never "baby proofed" our apartment or padded corners. But I know parents who were literally wearing their helmets at home. So that when they feel, their heads do not hurt. Although it saves a lot of tears and makes life easier for parents. I think it does more harm than good to the child. Because they don’t learn the limitations of their body with their environment.
I can see that you have to learn to use a very sharp knife, but if you make a mistake, wear cut-proof gloves to stop the injury. The problem is that there is no response to the errors. So there is no reason to change behaviors. Which means the habit can be made into bad tactics. Take off the gloves and learn the lessons quickly. Of course, it is a painful situation to learn those lessons with high cost. Which is why you have to learn motor skills in childhood. Where the cost of failure is very low. A mustache on the head, a cut knee, a torn page of a favorite book.
For most people, learning is the best way to go, but the cost of failure is low, but many people are afraid of failure. Since people don’t usually want to lose or look like stupid people. Most of us avoid situations where we can fail and as a result, we never learn the “motor-skills” we need to deal with. Without under pressure.
Growing skills is like shaking the garden. There may be plenty of plants that need a variety of care. And there may be different weeds that need to be treated in different ways. Some are more harmful than others, some require more drastic action. However, if a garden is built on a good foundation. However it is much easier to manage problem areas like our home garden, we are inheriting problems due to bad habits and lack of active maintenance.
Skills and habits are similar in inheritance. We often inherit our processes from our parents and exclude the strategies we create to deal with as children except if we maintain bad habits in adults. But it is not very difficult to change them. They also feel that they are part of us and that what we are doing can feel like a change. Weeds are a constant problem in a garden. But they are not gardens.
Creating a maintenance schedule if part of the initial process we learn. Which allows us to identify the bad ones and the good ones from the weeds from our habits but we are not likely to perform better with just what we have. We will have more space to grow.