Grass is Greener

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• Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL clover is a legume. Neat.

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• Omega_Man@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I harvest them to make lotion etc.

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    • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lotion, as in it puts it on it’s skin or it gets the hose again?

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    • Omega_Man@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My gran used to pick them and make dandelion wine.

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like the smell of yellow dandelions too. Had a lot of those around in the town where I grew up

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• GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My whole property is nutrient void clay. Its greener where I piss.

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  • ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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    • GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It only rains like a dozen times a year. I’ve got some decent work on the ground for my garden, there’s worms even! But I don’t have the time to really do several acres. I just kill invasives and water the natives. I have tons of native desert wild flowers but I still need to kill like an acre of buffle grass(I think that’s what its called, super hardy invasive African grass). I have a lot of native seeds for larger plants and trees that I’m going to sow and hope they grow after I leave.

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• Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are there clover lawns?

  Oh,yup. Wow, they’re popular.

  Okay

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  • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you might like the movie: Cloverfield

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just finished cloverfield.

      Not a single goddam clover in the whole goddam movie.

      Good movie though.

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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• pelletbucket@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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  • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Grass looks greener from the side than from directly above.

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• venoft@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, clover is a legume? How tiny are their peas?

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• adj16@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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!

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