Gardening Wisdom (from my mother-in-law)

A few weeks ago, I was discussing gardening with my mother-in-law. She is a keen gardener and naturally talented at it, while I am absolutely hopeless. On my poor gardening skills, please read my post from the 5th of July. But she was generous enough to guide me with some general principles regarding the art of gardening, which I wanted to share here: "Gardening is not for the faint of heart, you must be brutal and merciless. It requires lot of cutting and killing. But it's mostly feeding the slugs." This was eye opening and it also deserves to be a new great unknown line.