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garden is a place for deliberate plant growing, decorative or edible or fruit bearing, a topic of some indieweb posts, and brainstorming for structured posts about planting, plant growth, flowering, bearing fruit, or sometimes a metaphor for a personal website with a topic pages rather than posts focus (digital garden), or a caretaking metaphor for wikis (wiki gardening).

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IndieWeb Examples

Barnaby Walters

Barnaby Walters has been posting about gardening since 2013-05-22 more examples:

Anthony Ciccarello

Anthony Ciccarello Considering adding to site (or making a subdomain). Previously, he used GardenTags to post and track his plants.

Brainstorming

Information to include

Common & scientific names
Growth/Change/Death
Origin (seed, store, cutting)
Harvesting, pruning, splitting/propagating
Preferred conditions (light, water, soil)
Photos

Grouping related posts

Part of the fun of gardening is seeing individual plants/plots grow over time so posts should be linked somehow
Plant care often happens in bursts, once a week of watering, maybe every few months for re-potting and other projects. Lots of updates on individual plants might be better posted as a collection in a feed or kept entirely separate from a main feed.

Why

Brainstorming why: categories worth growing yourself:

organic (you have much more control, costs you less to control than certified organic farms, avoid woowoo practices)
narrow ideal ripening window
easily bruised/harmed in transport. Examples: tomatoes, avocados

Not why

Not a why not, but not a reason why, cleaning indoor air:

2020-09-07 Debunked: Despite NASA Clean Air Study Claims, Houseplants Don’t Effectively Purify Air