Anyone else landscape as a job/side gig? Do you also struggle weeding knowing that you’re just exposing bare soil & taking out the nutrients that the plant pulled up from the ground? Depleting nutrients from the soil?

I know I’m a highly sensitive person, so I think of and feel things more deeply by default.

But every time I’m weeding an area, and I expose a bunch of soil that will be dry and look barren in a few hours of sunlight with evaporation, I just get sad. 🙁

I mean, I’m all for removing garlic mustard patches and such (tastes great as a pesto too!), but I wish chop & drop was a more known & accepted thing in the landscaping world. But I know people prefer their “flawless” gardens (I think they look boring and unnatural).

It’s not always my place to speak up, but when I have they cared more about aesthetics then what it was doing to their soil. I just wish people didn’t care so much about what their garden looked like and more about the long term affects of what they ask me to do!