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  • Potting mix has stuff in it - usually perlite - that helps it drain faster. In ground or garden soil usually doesn’t. Bout that simple. If you want to have something that works in the most cases, get some in ground or garden mix, and a bag of petite. Then you can roll your own potting mix, with more or less drainage depending on the preference of your planting.

    If you’re looking for anything more than a couple cuft of good stuff, skip the bags. Call up a local wood chip or ground cover shop, and see if they deliver or if you can pick up a load of their “compost” or garden soil or whatever. Know that if it’s wood-chip or garden-waste based compost it probably has virtually no Nitrogen in it - iirc wood uses up nitrogen when it breaks down, but has a lot of the other good stuff your plants will want. Amend whatever you get with some nitrogen fertilizer (package directions), or no seed grass clippings (as much as you’ve got), or cow/horse/sheep/chicken shit (20-50% by volume) or “fish emulsion” (package directions). Your plants will thank you.


  • There’s also the carrying capacity of the area they’re emigrating to. Housing in particular is one aspect of it that’s already very very tight in most of the Western world. Even without immigration per se, this problem plays out every time a major company moves headquarters to a new city/state. Lots of new people, and a very slow to respond housing stock means surging prices. Schools and other social services also get stretched - but they’re much quicker to respond to the demand.













  • Bigfish@lemmynsfw.comtopolitics @lemmy.worldYour vote isn't enough.
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    3 months ago

    One major complication to this is that many on that non-voting left are just unable to. Systematic voter suppression that adds unnecessary hurdles to voting, poll location closures, and just the fact that many of these folk can’t take the day off to vote, all come together to drive these numbers way down.

    Your vote matters.

    And if you want to multiply your impact, help some other folk to the polls. Last cycle I messaged my neighborhood that if anyone wasn’t able to get to the polls due to a transportation limitation that I’d drive them. I got 9 people turned out who wouldn’t have. And don’t wait for election day. Start early. Help folks who may need an ID or to get registered to get over that hump, and get people out to early voting if it’s available in your area. These are easy, and it builds representation for your community. Do it.