My neighbour has raised concerns about me because I’ve stopped trimming parts of my lawn to foster the bees. Apparently it’s weird and concerning to let some areas grow wild. I didn’t rake the back last year, and started to see fireflies again.
I was going to buy a wildflower mix, but that will be too unkempt.
Fuck HOAs.
One of my first jobs had me working retail in the “lawn and garden” department. Every year we would have people buy those wildflower mixes and then 6 weeks later, you would see the same people buying weed killer. I had many people tell me that they couldn’t understand why their lawn was so overrun with weeds the last few years, and of course they were always the ones doing the wild flower mix.
Isn’t a wildflower mix mostly weeds? Or am I whooshing?
Yes it is all weeds, but people are stupid and don’t seem to know that.
Oh good lord.
I’ve been promoting a “mullet yard” where the first little part by the street is standard monoculture mowed grass and then 8-10’ back it’s a riot of natural plants. The contrast kind of works for it.
Moth caterpillars are eating all my mini pumpkins but I dont want to hurt the polinators 😩
Once the flower starts turning into a fruit, put a fine mesh net over it so the fruit can grow in peace
Awe, their favourite! What a thoughtful gift ❤️
If I wanted to be swarmed by insects, I’d go to the woods.
Abolish lawns
I’m not sure if you’re for or against biodiversity with this comment…
The first line seems to contradict the second.
Unless it’s abolish lawns to replace them with tarmac or something?
ROCK GARDEN HOURS
Ah, I see, you’ve been turning water into wine again. You be careful now, if you drink too much they’ll have you up on that cross again and we all remember how it took you 3 whole days to recover from that hangover
