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Garden Check-In (Week 11): Is the Mint Escaping? · The Grammar of Classical Education

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to our Friday Garden Check-In.
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  SPEAKER_00: My name is Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Darlene Gomes,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I am so glad to have you here on just a little bit of a garden check.
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  SPEAKER_00: Earlier this week, we talked about why wise gardeners often grow mint in containers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not because mint is bad, but because it is so wonderfully good at taking over.
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  SPEAKER_00: It kind of had me thinking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of us don't notice when the mint first escapes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't happen all at once.
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  SPEAKER_00: One extra activity suddenly becomes expected.
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  SPEAKER_00: One fancy display becomes the standard.
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  SPEAKER_00: One special tradition We
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  SPEAKER_00: rarely wake up one morning and discover
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  SPEAKER_00: the garden has changed overnight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead, it has actually been changing one small mint runner at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is why wise gardeners take time to To walk through their garden.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not always to plant.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not always to prune.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's just to look.
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  SPEAKER_00: They may ask, what's growing where I didn't intend it to grow?
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  SPEAKER_00: And really, that's my invitation this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't need to redesign your curriculum.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't need to throw away the special things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just walk slowly,
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  SPEAKER_00: physically or at least mentally, through your classroom or your plans for next week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or since for many of you it's summer, for your plans for next year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Walk slowly through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where has something suddenly appeared that was intended to be just an enrichment
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  SPEAKER_00: but has now become a demanding essential?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where has the mint quietly crept over the edges of the container or silently crossed
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  SPEAKER_00: the established borders?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now don't feel like you have to tear up the entire garden.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe just trim a few of the minty delights that are looking like they want to take over.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll leave you with just one question to carry into the rest of the week.
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  SPEAKER_00: What part of your garden may need a container of Before the year starts,
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  SPEAKER_00: or if you're in the school year, maybe before Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give it some thought, and I will meet you back in the beautifully growing garden next week.