Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court

shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I have a fair sized yard that I’m largely letting go natural. If we could afford it, I’d lay down a metric shit ton of clover. And it’s working! There’s more life in our yard than anywhere on the block. LOL, my wife is screaming back at the frogs we’re so overrun.

If you’re in an area that doesn’t freeze too hard, or if you can put in a large enough pond, get some water going. I have “ponds” from 15G to 150G and only the smallest one isn’t thriving. Plants are healthy, but it’s too small for animals, temps change too fast. If you don’t attract animals to eat the mosquito larvae right off, look up “mosquito dunk”. Got that trick from lemmy!

I’ve spent nearly nothing for all that, don’t even use pumps anymore. Biggest expense was the 150G Rubbermaid, about $150, but I had discounts, paid $110. All the plants came from the creeks and rivers and swamps around here. Cut them out, take 'em home, toss in the water, nature does the rest. I was astonished at how quickly the 150G went wild! Two weeks vs. the months I thought it would take.

Bird feeders are cheap enough, and you can certainly roll your own along with bird houses. Feed’s not too pricey. I use black sunflower seeds, but you can sometimes get a generic mix that’s a little cheaper. Hummingbird food is stupid easy to boil up. Find a feeder that takes standard mason jars and you can make and freeze a whole year’s worth in a half hour. Get the jars at the thrift for 25¢, they don’t need good tops. Pull spent feeder apart, rinse it out, screw in the mess-free frozen cartridge. :)

Only things I actively kill are carpenter bees and fire ants. Carpenter bees are wildly destructive to one’s home, and the traps only catch those particular insects. For fire ants, use bait with hydramethylnon, nothing else will do.

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