BigWeed [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 12th, 2025

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  • It’s hard to kill a plant that has good drainage. Terracotta pots (if in containers) and well draining soil that goes deep enough. Plastic and concrete pots are killers for the occasional gardener.

    You can measure ph cheaply by boiling red cabbage and using the juice as it’s a sensitive ph indicator in the plant range. I use it a lot b/c commercial ph meters suck sometimes.

    If you’re worried about salt or whatever bad nutrients, just flush it with water and then add a very light nutrient solution (1/4th strength of a 20/20/20 or whatever).

    For water, any filtering is better than none. But that usually advice for people who want perfect plants.
















  • Minimum wage is an example of a price floor. We already have price floors on a range of ag commodities. What happens in practice is that the government will limit imports and agree to buy those products at the price floor if the market price ends up being lower. This is one reason why we saw massive milk dumping during the pandemic. Instead of culling cows during a market shock, price floors kept supply up when demand was down. If this happens we will probably see food waste like we’ve never seen before while food gets more expensive.