Snow Pruning - An Antifragile Note for Your Garden & Is Emotional Avoidance Sabotaging You?
Snow is natures way of pruning and getting weak limbs and branches out of your trees and shrubs. This showering of snow on your plants helps them prune away what is dead and needs to be removed, or weak and needs to be fortified and strengthened. Snow also deeply waters your plants, and cleans the dirt and dust off the leaves and branches so they can more deeply respirate and receive sunlight.
Let it be! Let the snow do what it needs to do to prune and strengthen your trees and shrubs. Then after the snows are done, go ye forth and prune out and clean up what has fallen.
The approach I take and encourage with plant care and gardening is to establish proper rooting and planting, and care for the plants so they can be strong, beautiful, and healthy. When your plants are planted properly, have unbound roots, the proper foundations, and the right environment they can hold the weight that comes at them from a snowstorm and in bearing their fruits.
Nature has laws that cannot be broken without consequences. Natural Law is a real thing. We are seeing this play out today with humans, because we have strayed so far from nature. Love it or hate it, survival of the fittest, and thrival come from those that are well connected, strong, loving, fruitful, and nurturing is the reality of what makes plants and people endure.
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"If we don't have the capacity to feel a sense of love and connection to ourselves and to one another, that's the neurochemistry of suffering. And that neurochemistry of suffering is what leads us to reach and grab for whatever it might be." - Rick William
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