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.
Grass is Greener
Submitted 4 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Omega_Man@lemmy.world 4 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 months ago
I harvest them to make lotion etc.
Gork@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Lotion, as in it puts it on it’s skin or it gets the hose again?
Omega_Man@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My gran used to pick them and make dandelion wine.
rockerface@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I like the smell of yellow dandelions too. Had a lot of those around in the town where I grew up
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’ve been supporting pollinators and bugs at my house since I moved here.
I have a portion of my yard set aside for lightning bug habitat.
So many this year … that my neighbor got a bug zapper. I hate that fucking thing.
Omega_Man@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What kind of monster doesn’t like lightning bugs?
GluWu@lemm.ee 4 months ago
My whole property is nutrient void clay. Its greener where I piss.
ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 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
zerofk@lemm.ee 4 months ago
So it is indeed greener where you water. Try the body thing next and let us know.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Are there clover lawns?
Oh,yup. Wow, they’re popular.
Okay
Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
you might like the movie: Cloverfield
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Just finished cloverfield.
Not a single goddam clover in the whole goddam movie.
Good movie though.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s a bit in the weeds of gardening technique. If OP wants a simpler documentary about living with cloverfields, check out 10 Cloverfield Lane.
moistclump@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Oh wowwwww.
Was it grass before when you had to tear that up first?
Did the Clovers propagate by themselves after you put in a few patches?
Tell me as much of the story as possible if you have the time inclination.
Also, do you take naps on the clovers and does it stay in your clothes?
It’s difficult for me to imagine having a clover lawn and not sleeping on it.
You just go outside and grab some clovers to cook sometimes and stuff haha.
Oh it looks so nice.
adj16@lemmy.world 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!
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Biologist here, the body itself isn’t what grows the “greener grass”. It’s just the start of a long biological process that will lead to ecological growth.
A tree isn’t going to feed directly off of the body. But the debate process will provide nutrients to the tree. We’re talking about insects and fungus at various levels of the process here. You can look up things like the Trophic Levels, and Nutrient Cycles for more details on this whole process.
TLDR would be that the corpse floods the area with nutrients and maybe even kills off the plants with over abundance of nitrogen, but then fungus and bugs move in, then bigger bugs and small animals, and so on and then better plant systems. It’s kind of neat.
Shou@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s dope! I can become compost! I hope my leftovers get used by a tree. Trees are cool.
pelletbucket@lemm.ee 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
jherazob@beehaw.org 4 months ago
venoft@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wait, clover is a legume? How tiny are their peas?
lseif@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
average size. actually if they were any bigger it would be uncomfortable.
Neato@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
TIL clover is a legume. Neat.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Peanuts too ;)
Classy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
As is the locust tree! The one with the huge spikes on it