End The Tyranny Of The Lawn!!

[Thief]

But getting local governments, cooperatives, & condo associations
to allow landscaping diversity has been a tough sell.

Im glad I don't live inside city limits

they have ordinance
6inch grass.....or they cut it FOR you and send a bill

iceholes

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Oh, yeah, and y'all are a bunch of plant hating plantists!

No more plants! No more plants!

 

[Revoltingest]

No more plants! No more plants!

What if I planted carrots?

 

[Melissa Alan]

In fact, you can organize landscaping without the use of synthetic materials, fertilizers and chemistry. I grow the most common plants that grow in our region. I grow on my terrace in the most ordinary rectangular planter https://getpotted.com/planters/trough_rectangular/ . I even have a shrub that berries gives. Next year I want to grow strawberries. For fertilizers are suitable peels of bananas, eggshells. In general, organic fertilizers. That's my grandmother who taught me.

 

[Melissa Alan]

That's the orchid I have. grown on the bark of a pine tree

 

[sooda]

In fact, you can organize landscaping without the use of synthetic materials, fertilizers and chemistry. I grow the most common plants that grow in our region. I grow on my terrace in the most ordinary rectangular planter https://getpotted.com/planters/trough_rectangular/ . I even have a shrub that berries gives. Next year I want to grow strawberries. For fertilizers are suitable peels of bananas, eggshells. In general, organic fertilizers. That's my grandmother who taught me.

I want your input on seed bombs.. Can you help?

 

[Thief]

I'm not going to use Roundup any more

and I hear....a small exposure can cause cancer
just a rumor....
but hey

 

[Thief]

so....my wife bought a Wandering Jew
two plants
two pots
killed both
all but a twig with a leaf or two

so I put the twig in a flower pot my daughter painted in grade school
it lived

now I have two specimens in two posts
one is a good deal to the purple/red leaf
and the other is more to the green/purple leaf

anyone know how these clones are not the same?

 

[sooda]

I'm not going to use Roundup any more

and I hear....a small exposure can cause cancer
just a rumor....
but hey

Maybe goats are the answer. We put 12 in a 1/3 acre pen to get rid of the Kudzu..

 

[Thief]

Maybe goats are the answer. We put 12 in a 1/3 acre pen to get rid of the Kudzu..

I have seen that vine.....in Georgia
I went to visit a friend there and as we were moving along on a four lane...
he says....look over there

a broad leaf vine had taken over an entire line of trees
ALL of the trees were covered
soon to die
the canopy shades the undergrowth to death

a serious problem

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

so....my wife bought a Wandering Jew
two plants
two pots
killed both
all but a twig with a leaf or two

so I put the twig in a flower pot my daughter painted in grade school
it lived

now I have two specimens in two posts
one is a good deal to the purple/red leaf
and the other is more to the green/purple leaf

anyone know how these clones are not the same?

I expect, like many plants, the coloration of the leaves are viruses and/or bacteria, harmless but otherwise appealing.

I had an ivy that was like that-- give it too much sun, it'd go dark, verdant green. Put it in the shade? White streaks on the leaves (or maybe it was the opposite -- I forget-- died years ago).

 

[Thief]

I expect, like many plants, the coloration of the leaves are viruses and/or bacteria, harmless but otherwise appealing.

I had an ivy that was like that-- give it too much sun, it'd go dark, verdant green. Put it in the shade? White streaks on the leaves (or maybe it was the opposite -- I forget-- died years ago).

I lean to thinking it would be the potting soil

I went to Walmart a bought a bag of whatever
stuck the red/purple item into it......and it almost grew over night

too much too quick

bought another bag of whatever.....but different
paid no mind to what I was doing
just paid for it

so the overgrowth got transplanted
but it went green/purple
smaller leaves

haven't seen flowers or seeds

so...what happens next?

 

[Thief]

oh btw...
lawn care is a fad
took hold in the fifties as neighborhoods went dense
and people had smaller lots

first came the reel pushmower
I used them when I was sooooooooo much younger
to earn pocket change in the housing projects

but keeping the grass short has only one practical use
keep the snakes away from the kiddies
keep the insects to a minimum
and the mice won't cross the short grass for fear of birds

pests....

 

[Thief]

does anyone know a practical control for Scots?

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

does anyone know a practical control for Scots?

hmmmm...... give'em some bagpipes and the wrong pattern of kilt?

 

[ChristineM]

hmmmm...... give'em some bagpipes and the wrong pattern of kilt?

Or hide the haggis


Or perhaps direct them to the washroom

Decisions, decisions...Will keep a true Scotsman occupied for hours

 

[Thief]

I was thinking …..
hire two of them at one time to take of one lawn

let them go at it

 

[Wu Wei]

does anyone know a practical control for Scots?

keep em supplied with

and you will not hear a thing from them.....but there is one thing...you can't have any tractors nearby or there will be problems

 

[wandering peacefully]

Look up seed bombs….. Its a wild flower thing.

Okay will do, thanks.

Looks like fun and a great idea. Especially to do with the grandkids.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm not going to use Roundup any more

and I hear....a small exposure can cause cancer
just a rumor....
but hey

I'll keep using it.