• Omega_Man@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I don’t understand the dandelion hate. They are puffballs for maybe two weeks tops. The rest of the time they’re either invisible or beautiful flowers.

    Also, I’m like the only yard with fireflies in my neighborhood.

  • GluWu@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    My whole property is nutrient void clay. Its greener where I piss.

    • ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Daikon radishes. They grow in about anything and are especially good at clay busting. Grow a bunch then let them die back. Till them in and repeat until you get enough environment for the worms to take over the tilling. You can keep piling on radishes with something like clover and peas to add some nitrogen fixers. This is more a pasture revitalization technique, but if you don’t mind being the weird radish guy for two or three years (depending on local conditions), you could do it on a smaller scale for a lawn

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          Oh, so you’re in a real live desert. That’d be way too much work. I bet you have some beautiful natives growing out there. Sucks about the grasses, tho. I have enough trouble with bermuda grass, I can only imagine the problems from something that could be invasive in a desert

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      4 months ago

      So it is indeed greener where you water. Try the body thing next and let us know.

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    4 months ago

    The message of the saying is that you only think that grass is greener because you’re not living with it. The grass isn’t actually greener on the other side of the fence

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          From the side, the blades obscure the dirt. Either that, or my neighbor’s grass really is greener.

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            4 months ago

            okay so that would apply if you could see the dirt, but if we’re just talking about a thick turf layer it seems like the top would be greener because that’s where most of the reflection is going

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              If the grass is laying flat against the ground, I guess. But it usually just leans. Either way, this is outside the scope of my statement.

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                4 months ago

                well, you’re saying the grass looks less green because of the dirt, but then you’re not talking about how green the grass is you’re talking about seeing dirt

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    4 months ago

    I actually have serious doubts that plants grow better in the complex soup of fats and proteins that a body turns into. In fact I’m pretty sure I remember reading that the romanticized idea of turning your body into a tree after you die basically doesn’t work for this reason!

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      4 months ago

      average size. actually if they were any bigger it would be uncomfortable.