Let me present you this one:
HAIL HYDRA!
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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morto@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That is incredibly unsettling. What is it?
quinkin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Kalanchoe daigremontiana
I know it as Mother of Millions
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just keep cutting/burning it every couple days. It will die eventually.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Lol good luck with that!
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well we had it in our backyard and did exactly that. It’s not there anymore.
MintyAnt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
AMA on how to deal with your invasive plants
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Robinia are taking over unmaintained areas like construction grounds and the edge of the forrest. Some in the forest are full size.
What can I do against them spreading?MintyAnt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuckinnn black locust. You’re talking about places off your property right? Rough.
One thing is spreading awareness that non native plants are bad and invasive plants are majorly damaging. I think focussing on native plants in someone’s home is a great angle. Gardening is something actually in people’s control and thus something they would be willing to consider. Notable points I try to get across:
- your local amazing bug (e.g. monarch butterflies) will all die without the specific native plants they need to survive
- pollinators love native plants more than non native
- Native plants are far more interesting than whatever you get at the garden store for looks
- Natives are dumb easy to maintain. Especially if ppl just buy partially grown ones. Just help it establish, in mostly the right area, and they will thrive
- It’s good for the environment. Non natives cannot support our ecosystem and actively damage it.
Beyond that? You’d have to also start specific campaigns against specific invasive plants and go do group attacks on those plants. Your local green organization will usually be good for organizing and getting volunteers, as well as navigating where you can actually go. It’s a big effort and a lot of work, especially for such noxious plants like full grown trees. But it can make a difference over time
wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
My garden patch converted entirely to mint by the end of the warm season. What do?
MintyAnt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is it a small enough patch that you could dig it all out? Mint spreads through rhizome roots, so if you dig out most of the roots, you’ll be able to easily manage any new roots. It’s also just preferable to the poison methods when possible
makearmy@lemmy.makearmy.io 2 weeks ago
Is the plant in the meme mint? Just deducing from the comments but idk what I’m looking at. 💀
jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Japanese knotweed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynoutria_japonica
makearmy@lemmy.makearmy.io 2 weeks ago
Word thx
Missmuffet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe this will help someone but if you wanna kill everything (and I mean everything) put a clear plastic sheet down over the offending area for a summer. It acts like a greenhouse, heating up and sterilizing the ground, killing the plants (as well as the ground bioculture, but it will recover and killing invasives can be worth it).
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
I wonder if this works for things like Japanese knotweed.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Fine, I will plant mint instead.
Actually considering mint for the front garden though. It’s a narrow strip of dirt surrounded on all sides by 10+ metres of paved land. Hopefully it would be less thirsty than using pots and tbh all that is growing in it currently is thorns.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
That’s the only safe place to plant mint.
Haaveilija@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just planted Mint into my computer
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Now to work out how to eat it and ideally says of preserving it too. Mint jelly but it needs apples in season really. I guess an unset syrup should also have a long shelf life as it’s the sugar that preserves it.
sirico@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Not culinary but if you’re looking for flowers can I suggest mints more prettier cousins nepeta and salvia nemerosa
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
But the entire point of growing something is to eat it. Or be useful in some way at least, considered bamboo for free canes but it sounds like it can damage concrete around it and even clumping bamboo would try and grow larger than the space I have fairly quickly due to the narrow width.
MintyAnt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You will plant native plants, you mean
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I think spearmint is native to the UK. Also got rosemary, thyme, chives, sage.
DonPiano@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Mint’s a native plant.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We have a thin strip of mint that’s exactly what you described. Fresh mint all spring and summer is great for a variety of reasons, plus it smells good. That said, we’re constantly fighting runners trying to grow in every conceivable crevice. It tries to grow in the cement expansion joints and in the joint between our house and sidewalk by the door.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The strip of land is a little distance from the house, tbh the thorns currently growing in it try and come up through the gaps in the concrete or snake their way through the gravel. At least mint doesn’t hurt.