• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    You avoid growing plants because it’s emasculating.

    I avoid growing plants because I’m awful at it and it’s cruel.

    We are not the same

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    If you have weed, hot peppers, and carnivorous plants, can I come over?

    Normal plants are great too, but clearly you are a person of taste.

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    I grow all kinds of plants including weed and really hot peppers… but also roses

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        /s maybe

        Well done; that gave me a chuckle…

        Its not gay if it your own soapy fingers right…right guys…oh fuck maybe I’m gay. No I can’t be, I hate the gays!!!

        • some closeted jock probably.
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    My dad grew tomatoes, loufas, and those decorative gourdes you turn into bird houses.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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…

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          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

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            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

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          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.

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              The netting isn’t big enough for squirrels to get through. It’s draped down from the trellising, and pinned down to the ground. There’s no way for the squirrels to get in unless they climb up and over, and they don’t seem to be able to figure that out.

              Not sure what to do about the horn worms though.

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                Oh, so there are also trellises of some sort. What else is there? It’s also still it quite clear how this is configured - are these frustra surrounding each plant? Because that sounds like a lot of work for each tomato.

                As for hornworms, best we’ve found is a daily sweep with a jar of soapy water for ritual executions.

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                  I’ll just send a picture:

                  This was before I added the netting. I use tomato clips to hold up the plants:

                  Then the netting just goes all the way around the outside hanging down from the top, and secured at the bottom with ground clips.

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          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

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      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.

      gardening is considered feminine, or for old people. not for younger men who are supposed to be virile and dominant. they should be hunting.

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        Weird. 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.

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        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

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      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.

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    I like flowers and tomatoes 😎

    E: and pumpkins. Frankly this comic is just to generate anger, all the men I know with green thumbs grew all kinds of healthy and fun plants that everyone enjoyed.

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    Cacti and carnivorous plants are super cool tho??? Especially that you get cacti cuz of how resilient they are, a great first plant, can recommend. And growing your own food/spices as well? Also Ive never seen that stereotype lmao

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      Yeah it’s kinda weird. As if anyone is growing weed because it’s manly and not because it’s awesome