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WotD: Green thumb
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
I was having a conversation with a student the other day about Biophilic Design.
She told me she doesn’t have a green thumb because every potted plant she has had has died.
This lady must remain anonymous to protect her identity because she may be charged with planticide. {It’s a joke. Homicide – planticide, murder – murdering plants. If you can’t laugh, the least you can do is give me a smile. Please.}
Oh well, if someone has a green thumb, they are very good at nurturing plants and making them grow.
These are the people with lovely gardens around their homes.
Often, they also have vegetable gardens and produce veggies bursting with flavour and colour.
There is an elderly lady who lives near me who has a garden like that.
She is amazingly spry for a woman of her age (93), still drives, a minitruck, of course, and is even on the prefectural gate ball team.
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This woman has a green thumb as big as your leg.
Every year she gives my wife and me giant Chinese cabbages, great white radishes, and cucumbers about 30cm long and 3cm in diameter.
It’s amazing. I mean, sure, take a trip anywhere in the countryside of Japan, and you’ll see the products of people with green thumbs, but this lady takes the cake.
I have a nickname for everyone who lives in my neighbourhood, and she is ‘the kyuri lady.’
No, I don’t think that’s rude.
There is also ‘the chicken lady’ who works on a chicken farm and ‘Pyro’ who loves to burn old newspapers on rainy days.
So, there you have it.
Take a trip to the countryside where everyone has a green thumb, and you may find your own ‘kyuri lady.’
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