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TOPIC: What can I grow in a north-facing garden?
The topic was posted yesterday at 8:09 PM. It begins with an apology: I know this isn’t a gardening forum, but you guys seem like you’d know…
The first reply, at 8:23 PM, is fairly brusque:
ecotope North or south hemisphere? Also, please update your profile with your location and/or hardiness so people can give you better advice.
New members are always forgetting this. You didn’t, but only because you spent hours reading the forum before making an account and saw how many people were chastised for it.
You read the responses with interest, not because you have any interest in gardening, but because you’ve run out of more relevant and salacious reading material.
People start complaining about the property market in the greater Toronto area. A political debate begins to emerge. Someone makes an “eat the rich” joke and one of the more humorless moderator steps in:
taiga
ModeratorHey everyone, just a reminder that this isn’t the place for political discussions.
What counts as “political discussion” in this forum has always confused you—it seems arbitrarily defined and even more arbitrarily enforced. After taiga posts, the thread continues listlessly. There are almost no planting recommendations, but someone starts recommending expensive hori-hori trowels to buy.
Celine Nguyen is a designer, design historian, and writer. She is an MA student in History of Design at the V&A Museum/Royal College of Art, where her research considers contemporary web aesthetics and their relationship to our ecological world. Right now, she wants to know: what does degrowth look like for the web?
