Oh shit. This isn’t marijuana. It’s knotweed! That explains everything!
fight fire with napalm
Submitted 4 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
Majorllama@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We had blackberries in our backyard growing up. Every year we would cut and dig up as much of every plant as we could possibly see and we would scrape the top 6 inches of soil to move it far away.
We would burn them all before we churned the soil and burned some more.
We tried every trick and “natural” solution people recommended, but nothing ever stopped them from coming back.
My super hippy mom got so fed up she bought turbo cancer death chemicals and sprayed them everywhere. The blackberries finally stopped coming back.
It’s been 15 years and shes still mad that’s how she finally got rid of the blackberries.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Burn and churn is actually fantastic for the soil. Ofc they kept coming back.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
My vote is japanese knotweed is going to win, and it will do so with ease.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I like space war but space politics sounds really dumb. I want Neolithic cultures on pseudo ringworlds slung on planetary tethers down to supermind AI machine worlds beyond their wildest comprehension built by the star gods left behind in the wake of the human species.
Is that too much to ask?
Kitathalla@lemy.lol 4 months ago
I think Ian M. Banks (‘The Culture’ series) already had that, unless that’s specifically what you were referencing. Though humanity wasn’t a part of The Culture, as explicitly explained when they were viewing us like apes in a zoo, so the ringworlds with primitive cultures on them that had AI machine minds tending them weren’t from the wake of humanity.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Well, in a weird way that reminds of the background story to the board game Bonfire…
No ringworlds, just a dark planet with no ambient light to survive by.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I wish I didn’t understand the last comment.
TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
What a terrible day to be literate
flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Hilarious though.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 months ago
do you mind explaining ? my botany is rusty
Kitathalla@lemy.lol 4 months ago
On the internet, everything vaguely dog-like has a big, thick penis with an even bigger, thicker bulb at the bottom of it. I’ve heard it’s perfect for prissy subs everywhere as you love-fuck them into a drooling mess only to ‘tie’ them at the end as you howl your alpha-dominant status to the echoing world of your 10ftx10ft, $1500/mo
roomapartment.
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Is this Vancouver island? If it is, add english broom, morning glory and kiwi vine :p
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I was today old when I found out that kiwi grows on a vine.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 months ago
oh, cool. I looked up pictures. I was sure it grew on a tree
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Kind of sounds like it doesn’t it?
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Gotta say I love those big Himalayan bkackberries, though… despite the lacerations harvesting them!
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is like the opposite of permaculture
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Temporaculture
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Definitely not the UK because you can’t even legally sell a house with knotweed in the garden!
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You can sell the house - it’s just not so straight forward for the buyer to get a mortgage.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 4 months ago
That was it!
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 months ago
As an aspiring gardener, I have successfully killed mint and blackberries. :(
MintyAnt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
General location? Outdoor I assume?
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Yeah, zone 9b, inland Cali.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
We had blackberry vines in the backyard when I was little along a fence bordering with a neighbor (I think they originally started on their side of the fence) and I cried when they cut them down. They were so delicious!
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Never understood the problem with English Ivy. It only grows in the shade, you can see the line along my house where the sun never hits.
Never seen it in the wild, can’t imagine. And if you don’t want it around, rip it up. The root system is extremely shallow, couldn’t be easier to kill.
Planted bunches of it year before last at camp. It’s all either dead or barely hanging on.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well if it grows in the shade, then the invasive potential is gonna be in a forest, isn’t it?
Growing tree to tree, choking out every other plant as it goes
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nope. The sun moves around, sunup to sundown, and changes over the seasons. There is one small spot by my house the sun never hits.
As I said, I’ve planted it in my own forest, light is killing it. And if you don’t want it around? A light tug will completely uproot it.
Seleni@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Speaking as someone who lives in the Pacific Northwest, that shit can take full sun to full shade, grow insanely fast, and choke out even the largest trees. Leave a small piece in the soil by accident, and you’ve got a new monster-sized plant before you can blink.
It all depends on where you live. Lucky you that you live in a place where ivy behaves itself. Not everyone gets to be that lucky.
MintyAnt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It depends on the area. English Ivy is not native to the US, and it can fucking suck. It can easily take over entire areas. Since it re roots itself, it’s awful to remove.
It’s great in it’s native environment
Just… don’t use it in the US. Plant natives plants. There are lots of incredible native vines.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Wait are Concord grapes really that tenacious? I love concords…
MintyAnt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Plants can be more aggressive just by nature.
Generally, it’s probably more location dependent. Concord grape (a cultivar of fox grape) is native to eastern US gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/…/labrusca/
So if you’re in this area it may not be a big deal.
Virginia Creeper is also native to that area, and folks consider it a weed because it grows fast. Even though it’s native, and the colors slap in the fall.
Keep your concords
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Oh I was speaking less from concern than excitement. I have a brown thumb but I love concords, so if I can’t kill them, that’s a game changer?
Alaskaball@hexbear.net 4 months ago
Lol knot weed
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
My two favorite things
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
The mint and blackberries are native, but the rest is invasive. Better add some loostrife, caragana or knapweed for good measure
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mint and blackberries are representing the home team. Strong competitors all around
MintyAnt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mint is probably not one of the many native mints :(
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 months ago
i’m pretty sure that is named nut weed
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 months ago
They need them some goats.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 months ago
You can rent goats. :)
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You used to be able to rent goats on Amazon, but I think they ended that.
Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 4 months ago
Prolly, mango. Then again, we might have to check if its native to the area, otherwise shrug-outta-hecks OOF