My neighbor has 7-foot tall fennel plants. When she first said "fennel," i thought she was talking Florence fennel, the bulb of which can be eaten like a vegetable--roasted or in salad. But no, she was talking about an ordinary fennel plant, a perennial (Foeniculum vulgare).
"Well, you could use the seeds," i said.
We looked at each other. She's a busy woman. I'm a busy woman. As much as we would love to pretend that we are farmers or bakers, neither one of us has that kind of time.
"I'm going to dig it out," she said.
One line of the Loving-Kindness sutta says,
Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
Just imagine being "unburdened" by the duties of the garden and subsisting on very little.
My neighbor is unburdening herself of several giant fennel plants.
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