Basil is pretty resilient, but I’ve never had volunteers from the previous year.
My biggest volunteers are usually tomatoes, although last year, my neighbor had pole beans that went wild, got up into a tree, grew up over my beds, and dropped beans all winter, so this spring, while tomatoes are definitely my most pulled weed, now pole beans are in second place.
Also had one volunteer nasturtium that grew exactly where I had one plant last year, so I’m happy to have it there again this year!
Most of the sources I’d found on the subject seemed very cultish (“You have to do everything exactly my way or else you’re wrong!”), which was also what I found when I looked into the square foot gardening method.
I find this very off-putting, so I rejected both and simply continued using what has worked for me in my raised beds and so far I’ve been happy with it.
For me, that means adding some compost to the beds each year after scraping off any mulch from the previous year that hasn’t started breaking down into soil. After adding the compost (usually just a bag of black cow and a bag of mushroom compost per 4x4 bed) I turn everything over and break it up well with a spade shovel, smooth it out, plant, and re-mulch.
I’m only doing 4 beds and a few containers, so I use starts instead of seeds. As such, I fertilize each one at planting by adding granular fertilizer, bone meal, and crab & lobster meal to the bottom of the planting hole, stir it in with the dirt, and plant over that.
Those are among the worst, yes, but even the existence of subs like gonewild can have the effect of repelling potential users, especially those who don’t have an understanding of how the site is organized.
They read an article that talks about a sub for content they find objectionable, and from that point on, Reddit is “that site for (insert content they dislike here)”.
Much the same, I’m concerned that Lemmy will be known among those users as “that site for communists that support the CCP”.
I feel like this one is one where they took an existing shirt and ran the instructions through an OCR program.
Exactly.
It’s analogous to the way that Reddit knowingly allowing some subs to exist repelled some users.
Most were able to get past it and simply not subscribe to subs they found objectionable, but I’m sure many people just stayed away once they learned that certain subs existed and were very much known about by Reddit admins.
One key difference here is the way that your instance is able to enforce rules and to some extent influence and filter your user experience, and that’s worth consideration too.
I’m also curious if and how an instance like lemmy.ml can, for example, delete comments, ban users, take down content in cases of cross-instance interaction. Could the admins of lemmy.ml, for example, ban a user from another instance from Lemmy completely? From their local communities? Could they remove that person’s comments? Can they prevent their own users from seeing content they don’t like on other instances? Can they moderate content from their users that is posted to communities on other instances?
Well said.
In that case, I think the reddit administration did a good job of excising the people it didn’t want, letting them take root elsewhere before the main mass went to check that place out, and letting that main mass come right back.
At the time, I thought it was a calculated and intelligent move on their part, fully intentional.
After what we’re seeing now, I think maybe they lucked out.
I guess it’s some sort of Hanlon’s Inverse Corollary: Never attribute to intelligence what can be adequately explained by dumb luck.
Ewwww! Gravid!
Reminds me of the Fish Peppers I’ve grown the past 3 years! But definitely less hot/more versatile!