• Ratette (she/her)OPM
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    2 years ago

    That’s based af. I hate the American/Anglo flat lawn vibe of the west. It’s shit for local wildlife and biodiversity and creates a pocket industry of amateur pesticides and lawn care products which just shouldn’t be needed. Wildflowers and natural fauna all the way.

    • @bleepingblorp@lemmygrad.ml
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      52 years ago

      As soon as I escape apartment living and get my own house, I plan to rip up every square inch of flat lawn my dog doesn’t need for shitting and athletics and replacing it with flowers, fruits, vegetables, and trees yielding edibles for the wildlife and my family. And if some NIMBY home owners org or shitty neighbors try and complain that my garden is lower home values I swear I’ll be planting all kinds of passive aggressive plants like:

      • the Bradford Pear tree, smells exactly like cum when it blooms
      • Bamboo, which launches underground ‘shoots’ and can spread to neighboring yards
      • Cockleburs, which will stick to anything they touch, great to plant at your property edge for your neighbor to brush up against when they mow their boring ass lawn
      • Devil’s Tongue (the primary name of this plant sounds racist, but the alternative name I chose to use is also the same plant. It is also sometimes called Elephant Yam), which produces a corpse smell even though they are beautiful visually

      But, if my neighbors and whatever association is in the area plays nice, then I won’t have to waste my time planting these revenge plants and can instead plant more food yielding plants, then give out my excess yields to neighbors.

      Don’t fuck with gardeners!