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Plant Slurs (lemmynsfw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (16 children)

My garden is all weeds. Tons of different plants, but some dominate in certain seasons, growing like 5 feet high. Seems to have avoided anything nasty though, no thistles, nettles or brambles.

My neighbour's garden is a thin layer of plastic astroturf. And they let a dog run about on it. Good luck getting dog diarrhoea out of that.

I know which I prefer.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

I wish someone had warned me before No Mow May about brambles.

1 shoulder injury and a year later I need chainmail gloves and a fucking flamethrower. I fill my green bin with brambles, by the time it's picked up they've grown back.

The main root is under a shed. I don't know how to eliminate it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The worst I had to deal with was pampas grass, which appears to be a plant made of actual swords.

I spent three days hacking at it in a coat so I wouldn't get shredded. When I finally cut the root bulb out it was a cube of wood a foot across. I could barely lift it out, I had to roll it to the bin.

At least pampas grass doesn't spread.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Pampas grass is actually super invasive in certain areas (like all of California).

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