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Larry Hodgson
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Larry Hodgson writes Laidback Gardener, a personal blog at laidbackgardener.blog. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this gardening blog for posts on clover in lawns and on a bottle plant that grew for 47 years with no added air, water or fertilizer. The links are cited as sources only.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
I'm going to be that guy and point out that clover wasn't considered a weed until a chemical that killed clover, but not grass, was developed by Dow Chemical and the company wanted to sell it as a weed killer, so they ran a campaign about it. https://laidbackgardener.blog/2020/11/04/clover-in-the-lawn-... The secret was to turn clover from a friend into an enemy. Pesticide companies decided to launch an intensive ad…
Comment linking /2020/11/04/clover-in-the-lawn-from-friend-to-weed-to-friend-again/
on “Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)”> to build stable closed ecosystems Sealed terrariums? Unless you mean something more complex than plants, soil, sunlight, and water? https://laidbackgardener.blog/2019/10/14/the-worlds-second-o... "That means it has been growing inside its bottle with no additional air, water or fertilizer for 47 years."
Comment linking /2019/10/14/the-worlds-second-oldest-sealed-terrarium/
on “Worlds more habitable than Earth?”You're making the same mistake as the OP: looking in isolation at the current, final step of a process that took millions of years. Also, you're gonna find a lot of different immune systems in nature, just as you can find many different eyes/vision in animals. There's a lot of middle ground in species that saw no advantage in evolving that particular system against their environment. You're also confusing the random…
Comment linking /2017/04/12/darwins-orchid
on “Using paleogenomics to elucidate 10k years of immune system evolution”