jimard8 said: .... No matter what you comprehend it is never absolute ...
If you comprehend 70 to 90 percent of a particular category you have the chance of possibility of advancing the category ,,
But every complete subject contains an average of 30 to 50 categories ,, it is mind boggling .
No matter what the subject is, experts subdivide it smaller so they can specialize enough to know "everything published" about that sub-subject. Doctors joke about "I specialize in the LEFT little finger". At sicientific conferecnes where EVERY expert in the world on some subject get together, they break down into smaller and smaller groups until only a few people in the whole world are really "in on" that particular sub-sub-subject.
When I think about it as a student, I scroan - screaming and groaning done at the same time.
Thinking about it as a gardener, I can "take the side of the plants" and enjoy the way they still amaze and baffle every expert in the world. We might know three times as much as they did 50 years ago, or 100 times as much as they knew 200 years ago ... but every single new answer raises three more questions, each more difficult than the first question.
Meanwhile the plants just sit there in the soil, laughing at our efforts to analyze and define life.
My money is the plants, even in the long run!
Kind of like a great marriage, where no matter how long they live together, they still amaze and delight each other.
jimard8 said: .... Planted , Peony poppy , Wild Lupine , and salad bowl lettuce supreme today , 34 degrees ,, 50 for tomorrow ,,,
All in hopes of the critters leaving me a few munchies and blooms ,,,
Cool! Was that a "winter-sowing" deal in jugs, or direct-sowing? I forget.
These would be more cold-tolerant than most:
Tyfon
Corn Salad
May Queen lettuce