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r/SoilGripes Moderator and Absolute Unit
About CrankyFarmer
In 2018, after watching three consecutive threads devolve into arguments about whether peat moss counts as 'organic' (it doesn’t, unless you’re harvesting from a protected bog—and even then, don’t), CrankyFarmer locked the post, pinned a 47-word rant on cation exchange capacity, and renamed the subreddit’s welcome banner to 'Soil Doesn’t Negotiate.' Since then, he’s personally vetted every compost thread for proper C:N ratios, banned two accounts for mislabeling vermicompost as 'worm tea,' and once replied to a panicked 'Why is my kale purple?' with a single sentence: 'Phosphorus lock-up in cold, compacted clay—go aerate or accept your purple fate.' His moderation isn’t policy—it’s agronomic triage. He doesn’t hand out advice like coupons; he dispenses it like soil test results: blunt, calibrated, and always tied to measurable variables. You won’t find crop rotation charts here—just the unvarnished arithmetic of what your land will actually bear.
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