tara said:I know you were kidding. :) But this thread seems to contain many leaps of logic like this, so I'm drawing attention to the gap in logic anyway, in case anyone isn't seeing it.
Selective cultivation - may sometimes involve removing a lot of undesired plants to allow conditions for a smaller amount of desired plants. Not necessarily an increase in overall growth.
Well, okay.
But, on the other hand,
to cultivate a garden does not always or even mainly connote,
to my mind,
removing or diminishing or spraying with Round-Up, etc.
It could just as easily connote enhancing the growth of preferred plants.
I only bother to push the point
because it does round us back nicely
to a central talking point in the thread--
how Peat would seem to share your leanings in the general notion of cultivation.
You cultivate your garden by trimming back.
Peat "makes friends" with his microbiome by withholding their favorite food
(if Stuart is reliable there),
by gagging them with carrot,
and by whacking them with the occasional tetracycline.
With friends like that....