Comment on We are so cooked

Glifted@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Making bee hotels for solitary bees is child’s play. Take a chunk of wood, drill holes, hang in a tree.

  Technical aspects:

  • Don’t use pressure treated lumber, anything else is fine.
  • Look up “solitary bee hotel” for your area to see what size holes to make for the locals. In any case, it’s going to be a variety of different sizes to cover all your bases. Doesn’t have to bee (heh) perfect.
  • Make the holes, especially the edges, nice and smooth. They’re not dumb enough to nest their if the hole is raggedy and might jack up their wings.

  That’s mostly it. You can research easily enough in an hour or less There’s a woman on YouTube that sells bee hotels and has solid advice for making your own.

  Damned satisfying when you find the holes plugged with wax! You have new tenants! Stupid easy and basically free.

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• ChillPenguin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I can’t do that! What about my nice green lawn? /s

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  • thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My city will put a letter in my mailbox telling me to get rid of weeds and fine me $150 if I don’t. Rip

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    • ChillPenguin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ouch. I have been trying to plant native plants in our garden. Luckily I don’t have anything like that in my city.

      How do they enforce that? HOA?

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      • ericatty@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The actual city sends a fine. If you don’t clean it, they send a crew. If you don’t pay for the crew, the lien the property.

        Source: got letter from the city a week ago.

        In fairness, I’ve been dealing with a lot and there were some areas that looked like we were abandoned. I’ve been meaning to clean out the unwanted stuff so the flowers can grow. My lawn is mostly moss and clover and that’s not what they cared about.

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      • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Cities have a lot of soft power in that regard. Mine, just as an example, bans parking on grass. Even if you’re not in a fancy neighborhood, and have been parking on your lawn underneath the spreading oak tree for the last 50 years, they can ticket you for it (and tow) if they feel like being ornery.

        I think the usual wording for grass/plants goes along the lines of property values and nuisances to bring it within legal frameworks for what they can regulate.

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      • thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No, the city rolls around and if there are things sticking up out of the ground high enough outside of a flower bed they take pictures and send you a letter

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Send them a letter back with the definition of a weed.

      a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.

      If you want them there, they aren’t weeds.

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• BigLime@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Weeds? I thought they were pests

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Weeds aren’t really a thing. A weed is just a plant we don’t like.

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    • uuldika@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      weeds are to gardens like my house is to HOAs.

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      • underwire212@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        G

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As long as you mow them it’s all good. Just having a yard with anything than just a monoculture grass is better

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