Mioasis: Mio's Garden Zone

Intro-duck-tion

If you've entered this zone you love gardening, or you love reading about someone yapping about gardening. Before I get ahead of myself, I must stress that gardening is very area-specific! Hardiness zones isn't exactly a thing people talk about where I live, but I live in around 7a, central Sweden! If you follow along this website and go "I coulnd't grow that", you'd probably be right! Bias will be DENSE according to location. If the tips and tricks on this site is not useful to you, maybe you could learn something new about a place you've never heard about before instead! Make sure to check out my Resources though, where I link people from all of the world I've been taught by.

Onto the meat and potatoes, something something... (WIP)

Side note: Don't you dare call this place cottage core. I'm too filthy for those things /lh

When I garden I look like this:

About me

11/2/1998
SHE-THEY-ANY I'm Mio, queer, nonbinary, genderqueer, all those sort of things, I don't care about specifics. You can call me anything, I'm Mio and I love PLANTS and MAKING THINGS. I'm part Swedish, part Finnish (North Karelia).

AUTISTIC about gardening, which is why this website exists. Learning is a bit of my forte. I love all things organic, but I also love all things technical, which is why I'm in the middle of learning all this HTML and CSS business, among other things.

I'm currently a master's student in DIGITAL HUMANITIES. As much as I love nature it seems I pick computers and their relationship to humans first. I love categorizing information online, obviously!

THE OTHER THINGS... I'm a GAMER. I obviously play Stardew Valley, and it might have been the thing that really got my brain cells going in terms of cultivating that gardening lifestyle. I play other things also, like RimWorld mostly and a lot of other indies.

Backstory

I started gardening in 2022, when I was 24 years old. I had been in and out of uni at the time, I was very disorganized, and I was recovering from whatever the pandemic was doing to me as an unemployed hermit, with war breaking out and anxieties enveloping me. -Then I found it mighty wasteful that my mom had purchased a bunch of vegetable seeds without the intention of growing them.

I don't know what happened to my brain at that point, but something really clicked. I had never made a potted plant survive in my life, and suddenly I had tons of seedlings I felt responsible for. I coddled them. I did everything in my might to make them survive -and it worked. It worked really well, even!

Now I feel like I owe gardening my life. There is nothing that makes me relax better. There's nothing that makes me feel so fulfilled and accomplished. I genuinely think it put my life together and brought me to where I am now! Therefore this has become a hobby I will continue to do forever, and I hope to spread that joy to other people!!

Other things I do/like that's not gardening:
I've been an active digital artist since 2010, so I'm always up to something creative. I have a buttload of OC's with huge worldbuilding. I'm currently spending most of my time developing a graphic novel featuring said OC's. I mostly work in Clip Studio Paint and Affinity Publisher.

Top games: RimWorld (1.268 hours as we speak), Minecraft, The Binding of Isaac, Stardew Valley, Oxygen Not Included, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, No Man's Sky, Satisfactory, Cyberpunk 2077, Subnautica, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild & Tears of the Kingdom, Terraria, Project Zomboid, Valheim, Abiotic Factor, Disco Elysium, Slay the Spire, Dave the Diver, Noita, Cult of the Lamb, Spiritfarer, Balatro, Dwarf Fortress

Music: You'll mostly find me listening to a lot of non-vocal atmospheric music, weirdcore, frutiger aero, and generic smooth jazz. I also listen to a lot of game OST's, my current favorite is Pizza Tower. I frequently revisit Minecraft, Undertale/Deltarune, Hylics 2 and Katamari Damacy. I LOVE Japanese City Pop and Future Funk. My current obsession is Taeko Ohnuki and Tatsuro Yamashita, among others. For the more standard bands I listen to Petshop Boys (seen live), Depeche Mode, Death Cab for Cutie (seen live), David Bowie and Patrick Watson (seen live x2).

I'm a cultured vinesauce aficionado, I've been watching those freaks since 2014, so that's another thing you can talk to me about. Look out for imiogri in chat if you want tasteful commentary.