Some of you loved my last post, and some of you hated it. So, as promised, I made more shitty signs for you freaks. Go forth and establish American garden dominance in your neighborhoods!
A few months ago, I moved to an apartment with no balcony. Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out indoor growing alternatives, but the few plants I had didn't make it due to poor light conditions.
For a while, I thought my only option was joining a community garden, but the waiting lists around here are pretty long.
Then I came across a website that matches gardeners with neighbors who have unused yard space. Through it, I ended up connecting with someone nearby who wasn’t using part of their garden and liked the idea of someone growing food there.
Now I have a little garden a few minutes from my apartment with rosemary, oregano, dry beans, winter squash, and a few other things growing.
Is this something that already happens where you live? I know I could just asked my neighbor in person. But for someone with a little social anxiety like me, this was the best option. Thought it would be something worth mentioning for someone in the same situation!
Do you like native gardening but hate all the pussy shit that comes along with it? Do you want your republican neighbors to fear and respect you? Are you just genuinely kind of a weirdo? I have the yard signs for you!
If you guys like these, I'll make more; if you hate them, I'll make a lot more.
Feel free to comment any other stupid sign ideas you want!
I also hate lawns for the commonly cited reason that they require too many chemical inputs (and if not directly herbicide, fertilizer, etc. then gasoline to mow the fckin things) and poison/starve the pollinators and birds. And require too much water.
But does anybody else hate them because they could feed all sorts of animals but the owners don't want to have to deal with the unsightly aftermath of animals? I'm a homesteader and I have chickens, sheep, and horses. I also mow lawns for income on the side. I go crazy. I literally get so bitter every time I have to mow someone's FIELD lawn that could be feeding animals (I'm talking HUGE here). Especially in our culture where we buy meat from South America and those fckin summer people who spend $55/hr paying me to mow their lawns aren't supporting local agriculture (I know bc I also clean and I see in their fridges).
AND those fckers are buying up beautiful rich farmland just for the views and making it impossible for people that actually want to farm to buy the land. UGGGH.
I just had to rant here in the hopes that somebody else understands my pain.
We have a couple of trees in our yard (Zone 6a), however we get LOTS of fallen leaves from neighboring trees. AFTER fall cleanup last year I still had about 30 lawn bags of leaves for spring cleanup THIS year.
How do you maintenance fall leaves for no lawn? I cant imagine getting all these leaves out of perennials and I’d love to go no lawn.
I woke up one morning during COVID and decided I was fed up with cutting grass, no lightning bugs, loud mowers and blowers, chemicals, etc. My wife was on board, and now we have a little urban oasis, and it's quite lovely, IMO. Tons of work, but worth it.
We now have several varieties of swallowtail butterflies, monarchs in the summer, chipmunks, lizards, an incredible array of birds, a barred owl makes an appearance once in a while, and we have orders of magnitude more lightning bugs than most other houses.
Midwest, 6b.
Hoping someone can help ID this plant for me. I thought it might be some kind of pennywort but I’m not sure. It spreads pretty aggressively in my yard and want to know if I should be concerned about it choking out the native plants I’ve just planted.
I am in the military and will be moving soon and will be renting. I don’t have a location yet to be specific for what I’m asking but maybe a resource. I currently live in 7A growing zone
As the title suggests thanks in advance.
Zone 6b southwest Pennsylvania
First, please don’t judge the pine mulch multicolor. I had someone offering mulch from a tree so instead of it being thrown away I used it but needed some store bought pine bark mulch.
Tore out so much grass and added 45 native plants in my back yard. Finished it off with chicken wire at least for the first couple years to keep out the pesky bunnies and wood chucks.
Flowers:
- Lavender Hyssop
- old field goldenrod
- butterfly milkweed
- calico aster
- slender leaves mountain Mint
- black eyed Susan
- downy wood mint
- blue false indigo
- Ohio spiderwort
- white wood aster
Grasses:
- side oats grama
- path rush
- purple love grass
- prairie dropseed
- PA sedge
Shrubs:
- button bush
- arrowood viburnum
- elderberry
- ninebark
- black chokeberry
- red chokeberry
- false indigo bush
Here is my front yard in OKC. The left side I seeded the right side did it on its own.
A few years ago we had our septic system replaced, and the soil that they put over top of it is awful. Hence the extremely patchy grass over it. I'm not sure what to do.
I don't want a grass monoculture. I'd like a fairly low maintenance "lawn" with good food for pollinators, but right now I think the soil is the problem. For the last couple years we have just done chop-and-drop mowing with the highest blade setting our mower will do, in the hope that this will help build up the soil, but without a ton of success.
Can anyone offer any suggestions?
Edit: I'm in Nova Scotia, Canada.
My "lawn" currently is mostly whatever native grass grows in missouri, plantains, dead nettles and various other "greens" zone 7a southwesten missouri
I'd like to put something low/less mowing. The plantains and grasses get pretty tall and honestly Im a lazy mower.
We do have an hoa ( >:[ ) so we have to keep it "clean" or "intentional" looking.
No one really goes out front, unless its to move the garbage can so its very low traffic.
Our second year doing this. The pollinators are very happy!
There’s still some grass lurking, but it’s being replaced, by wildflowers in the front, mostly plantain and wood violets in the back.
Someone more plant savvy then I, can I pull apart this bromeliad and put it in the gaps of this stump I pulled up but am to lazy to cut up for the trash man to pick up? Or maybe some other plant that would be better suited for direct sun light in north east Florida??
We have been letting clover and creeping Charlie take over our front yard. The creeping Charlie has really proliferated this year and it is such a beautiful purple. I’m learning to embrace the wild yard.