this is my first year gardening and i absolutely love my plants like they are my children
i don’t wear gloves and i often forget that some of my plants hurt like hell when i touch them, like my cucumbers and my summer squash
why is it that they’re so prickly? especially my squash i feel like i can’t touch it anywhere except for the actual vegetable itself without getting poked whereas i don’t have that problem with other plant stems.
(sorry if it’s a dumb question i’m still learning about plants little by little!)
In: Biology
because for the most part anything that wants to touch those parts wants to eat them, and plants that get eaten don’t tend to get the chance to reproduce, so it evolved as a benifit.
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