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Image 1 — Five years ago I took the plunge and killed my lawn
Image 2 — Five years ago I took the plunge and killed my lawn
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Five years ago I took the plunge and killed my lawn

It’s still a work in progress. Pic 2 is from another, less pretty angle (the gray you see is mostly sheep fescue- a drought tolerant “no mow” grass). I’d like to do more sections eventually but my time is limited (have a toddler— in a few years maybe she’ll help!).

Killed the grass through solarizing (pic 3). I wish I had started earlier in the summer and did a few cycles where I let weeds germinate. The soil was in pretty bad shape and took awhile before I could get it to support much (mostly worked on this by spreading compost and planting clover and other nitrogen fixing things). The flowers are mostly from Prairie Moon’s “pretty darn quick” meadow mix.

Happy to answer any questions!

u/marmosetohmarmoset — 9 hours ago
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FIL with dementia and PD has unstable spinal fracture

They would normally operate for this kind of injury but won’t because of his comorbidities (chronic afib, Parkinson’s, history of PE, being 85). So instead he has to be in this horrible brace thing for the next month. He’s so uncomfortable and agitated. His quality of life was already terrible before this. If he was my beloved pet I would not let him suffer like this.

Does anyone have any recommendations? I hate how every clinician we see just treats the problem in front of them instead of looking at the big picture.

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u/marmosetohmarmoset — 1 day ago
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Simple summer solstice tradition to establish with my daughter (3)?

Been on a mission to add more pagan/non-Christian-related holiday traditions to our life, and also in the mode of establishing new family traditions for my young daughter (who will be 3 in less than a month!). For winter solstice I came up with the tradition of making and eating cinnamon buns (apparently spirals are a symbol of the solstice?), and then yelling at the sun to come back during sunset. Simple and fun- and easy enough to do if the Solstice falls on a school/work day. When she gets older I might add in a craft like making a god's eye.

Any suggestions for establishing something equally simple tradition for the summer Solstice?

Edit: thank you everyone!! We made flower crowns and yelled thank you to the sun. No bandwidth for other activities today but I’ll keep these all in mind for next year!

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u/marmosetohmarmoset — 15 days ago
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City construction has left me with these giant tracts of dirt around the periphery of my yard… what can I do with them?

I thought they were putting in sidewalks and I was all excited planning my native hell strip plantings. Instead they ripped up my weedy grass to put in new dirt? So now we’re heading into the hot part of summer and I need to figure out what to do with this before the weeds take over.

A few notes:

  • Boston area- cold winters, lots of salt exposure.

  • The area gets used as a sidewalk (despite lack of actual sidewalks), so it can’t just be overgrown with wildflowers and stuff

  • Some sections are full sun, some are under a Norway maple (ugh) and some are under a couple of giant pine trees.

  • I do not have a hose that extends to all parts of the dirt patches.

  • summer is my busiest work time of year so my time is unfortunately limited- however I have a friend I’ve been paying to help with the garden so she could probably help.

  • I had been wanting to get rid of the grass there (was my plan when I thought they were going to install sidewalks) because it invades my garden… unfortunately I don’t think they actually removed all the grass— some might just be buried.

Any ideas? One thought is to just cover it in mulch and deal with the problem in the fall. But still not sure what to do with it.

u/marmosetohmarmoset — 1 month ago