nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

Water it a bit. 3Water regularly, depending on theclimate: observe the earth and its humidity.Some plants will sprout soon,others later (and some other will neversprout...). Follow them and supportthem in their process.For a while, during the initialphase of growth, you will just needto water. When the plant has grown abit, watch it and ask yourself what itmight need, and if some changes arenecessary 4 : light, water, supports,more space or earth, warmth... youcan try out different things, alwaysconsidering that a plant has reactionsand adaptation times that are slowerthan ours. Give it time to respond,and stay attentive.If everything goes well now it maybe that your tomato plant gives somefruits. It’s a great satisfaction to eatthem. Remember that all this comesfrom just time and a seed. Incredible,right? Of course it comes from yourcare as well! 53. To propose to a plant to grow youneed your proposal to be sensible: it’spointless to plant a tomato seed in Novemberor a pumpkin seed in January!If you are in doubt go to a farmers’market where they sell local vegetablesand think that to be ready thosevegetables need to have been planted2-4 months before. If no tomatoes aresold at the local farmers’ market thispossibly means that they don’t growwell where you live: change the choiceof plant, maybe try cabbage?4. This year, whilst in the garden, Ihave realised that often, rather thanlooking for information on howto do things (on the internet, inbooks...) it can be better to think: aplant grows and lives according to alogic of which we are also part of.Try to: imagine (if I was a plant,how would it be for me to be here?); sense the connections amongstelements (if the plant has difficultiesgrowing, this could be because thesoil gets dry too quickly and doesnot keep the humidity) -observethe novelties and adjustments ofthe plant patiently, like a detectivelooking for signs and traces that youdon’t know, not knowing where theywill lead you.5. To take care of something is notsimply to provide it with the necessaryelements for survival; it can alsobe a form of attention, almost intercultural, that interrogates itself andtries to understand how being andsystems that are different from usfunction252