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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Nov 2019

      5/ Step back. Think about what gardening and farming is. The ecosystem is a ruthlessly competitive Darwinian endeavor where the organisms that reproduce fast and fend off predators survive. Every plan that exists survives in that environment. Storing huge piles of calories >

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Nov 2019

      6/ in convenient, ready-to-pluck form is a waste of energy that could be better spent reproducing, growing thorns and poisons to keep predators away, etc. Those things that thrive? They're what we call weeds. Also, trees. Few or zero calories.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Nov 2019

      7/ The things that humans call food are things that we willed into existence by (a) selective breeding, (b) ...for unnatural environments. Let me explain:

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Nov 2019

      8/ Potatoes or corn or whatever waste their energy storing calories. There's no way they can survive in the natural Darwinian state. Mankind didn't just create these species, we created environments they live in * artificial irrigation * artificial lack of competition (weeding)

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Nov 2019

      9/ The environment is crucial. Corn beats out weeds only in the environment known as "a farm run by a human". In EVERY OTHER ENVIRONMENT, weeds beat out corn. So farming and gardening is really "the science of creating artificial environments".

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Nov 2019

      10/ <puts fedora on> ok, that sounds easy enough ! I just get a 50 lb sack of "artificial environment" and sprinkle it over the soil, right? No. Environment has a dozen dimensions: * sunlight * water * seed planting depth * fertilizer type * fertilizer schedule * weeding >>>

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Nov 2019

      11/ Yeah, but still ... we could make a big box that has tubes coming out of it, and the tubs carry water and food and weedkiller to the crops, and ... well, OK, people try this. In the limit (zero soil), it's aquaponics ... and it requires a TON of equipment per calorie out.

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Nov 2019

      12/ If you're still planting in dirt, then it's called "fertigation" ( fertilizer + irrigation). But how much fertilizer? How much irrigation? Depends. Also, the right solution isn't static. You have to have a human in the loop, inspecting plants every day or two.

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Nov 2019

      13/ Are the plants a bit yellow? Too much water. A bit brown? Too little. White mold on the leaves? Gray mold? Rust colored specs? Small orange and black beetles? Failing to thrive? Holes in leaves? There's an encyclopedia of knowledge FOR EACH CROP SPECIES.

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    10. Door Matt‏ @YrWelcomeMatt 22 Nov 2019
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      This is why droids will save us.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Nov 2019
      Replying to @YrWelcomeMatt

      um,

      6:40 AM - 22 Nov 2019
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        1. Door Matt‏ @YrWelcomeMatt 22 Nov 2019
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          😀

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