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.
I harvest them to make lotion etc.
Lotion, as in it puts it on it’s skin or it gets the hose again?
My gran used to pick them and make dandelion wine.
I like the smell of yellow dandelions too. Had a lot of those around in the town where I grew up
My whole property is nutrient void clay. Its greener where I piss.
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
It only rains like a dozen times a year. I’ve got some decent work on the ground for my garden, there’s worms even! But I don’t have the time or water to really do several acres. I just kill invasives and water the natives. I have tons of native desert wild flowers but I still need to kill like an acre of buffle grass(I think that’s what its called, super hardy invasive African grass). I have a lot of native seeds for larger plants and trees that I’m going to sow and hope they grow after I leave.
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
So it is indeed greener where you water. Try the body thing next and let us know.
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
Grass looks greener from the side than from directly above.
are you sure about that
From the side, the blades obscure the dirt. Either that, or my neighbor’s grass really is greener.
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
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.
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
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!
Wait, clover is a legume? How tiny are their peas?
average size. actually if they were any bigger it would be uncomfortable.
