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Comment on Gardeners in da house? in ~hobbies
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Comment on Gardeners in da house? in ~hobbies
bawbzilla Link ParentThis is amazing! My long-term goal is to create an automated setup like yours, but that requires a bigger plot of land to actually put a greenhouse in. For... chili peppers and other things. Do...This is amazing! My long-term goal is to create an automated setup like yours, but that requires a bigger plot of land to actually put a greenhouse in. For... chili peppers and other things.
Do you have a background that lends itself to automation or are you self-taught? I have coding experience but only for statistical programs so I suspect there would be a bit of a steep learning curve for me.
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Comment on Suggestion: When unsubscribing to a group have an optional "Reason for leaving" field. For example: If a large percentage unsubscribe for 'toxicity' that's valuble information. in ~tildes
bawbzilla LinkAs a moderator of two not-small subs on reddit, this would have been a great tool to have. I've never been unhappy with having more analytics at our disposal, even if they went unused 90% of the...As a moderator of two not-small subs on reddit, this would have been a great tool to have. I've never been unhappy with having more analytics at our disposal, even if they went unused 90% of the time.
When there was an attempted terrorist attack locally, we were able to demonstrate a problem through the huge upswing in new accounts joining to post in our sub and solve that with a temporary new account filter to stop people spamming false information or racist nonsense. If we had the ability to see what the biggest reasons people were leaving our community were, again, it might go unused 90% of the time but if we suddenly saw a bunch of people citing the same reason it would empower action. If we were losing subscribers over something like "The sub just turned into people posting pictures of the city skyline" that might be a valid complaint to be acted on, but not really something I think should be addressed at the top levels of the site's administration.
If it showed up only as a statistic (drop down menu options, "other" short answer field that could be expanded) then I'd think it would be unobtrusive and difficult to abuse in a way so as to actually be annoying or a hindrance to good moderation.
Hey OP, 3a (though apparently we moved to 4a thanks to climate change?) here. I do container gardening currently until I get the yard situation sorted out.
What I've noticed for my area is that the summers are getting more dry and hotter, and the winters have been super erratic too. Anything in the ground is getting its shit kicked in by constant freeze-thaw cycles that didn't really exist before, and our trees took a huge hit when it went from being firmly winter at -20c to suddenly spring at +10. With no transition time, a lot of them were very stressed and there was a lot of die off.
I haven't noticed any new pests here, but we have already had some introduced ones for awhile. Lily beetles were especially bad this year though.
I've been growing varieties of plants that push the edge of the growing zone I'm in and it seems to have been working out okay. I think maybe even 4a is understating it, because even years before we were officially moved to 4a I was having success with plants from outside that.
Otherwise, I've gone for a far less utility oriented crop this year and am trying new varieties to see what happens and how I like them, since I was getting bored with the same-old. I'm growing ghost peppers, micro tom tomatoes (which are now officially my favorite tomato, it grows like 6" tall and it can be a desk plant at work!), tiny tim tomatoes, and early cascade. I've kept a few of my standby sub-arctics too.