Choice, Diversity
May. 16th, 2008 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenInteresting post by Kiashu/Green With A Gun on the so-called paradox of choice. Thoughtful and thought-provoking.
And from Greenpa/Little Blog In The Big Woods, a good post on biodiversity. (Why it's a good thing -- read about those ants in Texas yet? Go on, read it, it's a short post.)
Speaking of biodiversity, once I have the Yukon Golds, I'll have three kinds of potatoes...
Peas go in today, and maybe the lettuces as well (5 kinds of leaves, no, maybe 6?). I think I actually have more types of seeds than I have time and space to plant them.... but I should try to plant some of all of the types of parsnip, for instance, because I have no way of knowing which one will fare better up here. Sort of an experiment.
I do a lot of experimenting on a small scale, because sometimes something sounds good in theory, but doesn't work in practice -- or at least not in that particular place or for a particular person. Some things can be eliminated through research, like that cool pot-in-a-pot cooling system, which only works in a dry climate; others may work better for certain kinds of folks than others -- experience, skills, and personality type can all be factors. Me, I don't like things to involve too many numbers. I'll struggle through and crunch them at the start, but once I think I have things approximately correct, I'm done.
Gardening works the same way for me... I'll do the prep work, plant, water, nurture, mulch, give the plants a decent start. But then they better be able to take care of themselves for the most part, because I may only have a few hours per week to pay attention to them after that. Some weeks I may spend a few hours per day with them, and other weeks I'll only have time for a walk-thru. I have other things that need doing -- reading, research, writing, sewing, artwork, mending, painting, fixing stuff up, cooking, building, meetings, singing, ... you know, life!
Speaking of which, guess it's time for me to go out and finish digging one of my walk paths/ditches...
And from Greenpa/Little Blog In The Big Woods, a good post on biodiversity. (Why it's a good thing -- read about those ants in Texas yet? Go on, read it, it's a short post.)
Speaking of biodiversity, once I have the Yukon Golds, I'll have three kinds of potatoes...
Peas go in today, and maybe the lettuces as well (5 kinds of leaves, no, maybe 6?). I think I actually have more types of seeds than I have time and space to plant them.... but I should try to plant some of all of the types of parsnip, for instance, because I have no way of knowing which one will fare better up here. Sort of an experiment.
I do a lot of experimenting on a small scale, because sometimes something sounds good in theory, but doesn't work in practice -- or at least not in that particular place or for a particular person. Some things can be eliminated through research, like that cool pot-in-a-pot cooling system, which only works in a dry climate; others may work better for certain kinds of folks than others -- experience, skills, and personality type can all be factors. Me, I don't like things to involve too many numbers. I'll struggle through and crunch them at the start, but once I think I have things approximately correct, I'm done.
Gardening works the same way for me... I'll do the prep work, plant, water, nurture, mulch, give the plants a decent start. But then they better be able to take care of themselves for the most part, because I may only have a few hours per week to pay attention to them after that. Some weeks I may spend a few hours per day with them, and other weeks I'll only have time for a walk-thru. I have other things that need doing -- reading, research, writing, sewing, artwork, mending, painting, fixing stuff up, cooking, building, meetings, singing, ... you know, life!
Speaking of which, guess it's time for me to go out and finish digging one of my walk paths/ditches...
