TIL clover is a legume. Neat.
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2024
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As is the locust tree! The one with the huge spikes on it
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.
I harvest them to make lotion etc.
Lotion, as in it puts it on it's skin or it gets the hose again?
My gran used to pick them and make dandelion wine.
I like the smell of yellow dandelions too. Had a lot of those around in the town where I grew up
I’ve been supporting pollinators and bugs at my house since I moved here.
I have a portion of my yard set aside for lightning bug habitat.
So many this year … that my neighbor got a bug zapper. I hate that fucking thing.
What kind of monster doesn't like lightning bugs?
I think they’re just angry at bugs in general, bug zappers are just … dumb.
My whole property is nutrient void clay. Its greener where I piss.
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
So it is indeed greener where you water. Try the body thing next and let us know.
Are there clover lawns?
Oh,yup. Wow, they're popular.
Okay
you might like the movie: Cloverfield
Just finished cloverfield.
Not a single goddam clover in the whole goddam movie.
Good movie though.
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.
I planted one!!!
Oh wowwwww.
Was it grass before and you had to tear that up first?
Did the Clovers propagate by themselves after you put in a few patches?
Tell me as much of the story as possible if you have the time and inclination.
Also, do you take naps on the clovers and does it stain your clothes?
It's difficult for me to imagine having a clover lawn and not sleeping on it.
You just go outside and grab some clovers to cook sometimes and stuff haha.
Do pests live in there?
I want to live under the clover roof.
Oh it looks so nice.
Not who you asked, but here is another one:
Planted by my septuagenarian father with just seeds and water. This is ~~three~~ six weeks in. He had to water a bunch at first while it was taking root, but it should need less water than grass. The grass prior was pretty toast, but he took the time to remove crabgrass.
I will take a nap on it next time I visit and let you know :)
EDIT: MB, not three weeks-- six weeks! Apparently, I have experienced a time warp (again) 🙄 SOZ!!
Whooooa yusss, all clover lawns are welcome. That's awesome.
That's good to know that your dad was able to put it in so simply too.
Wow! It looks so lush for 3 weeks since, that's amazing.
I heard about alternative lines a while ago and decided I didn't want grass, but I had never considered clover and that seems pretty great
Not for nothing it is often desired to mix grasses in with clover.
Monocultures are rarely ever good.
Clover is awesome but it’s not a hardy plant, it tears and crushes easily, so mixing some native grasses in with it will increase its durability.
That said if you can just plant clover and let wildlife seed the rest then you’re in business.
Got it, thanks. I like a mix in a lawn, i let my last backyard grow wild for half a year to see what happened. It was pretty cool, lots of honeybees showed up.
If you can find pollinator mixes for your area they’re great to over seed clover with.
When I do no mow may the wildflowers I over seed grow faster and taller than the grass
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!
Biologist here, the body itself isn't what grows the "greener grass". It's just the start of a long biological process that will lead to ecological growth.
A tree isn't going to feed directly off of the body. But the decay process will provide nutrients to the tree. We're talking about insects and fungus at various levels of the process here. You can look up things like the Trophic Levels and Nutrient Cycles for more details on this whole process.
TLDR would be that the corpse floods the area with nutrients and maybe even kills off the plants with over abundance of nitrogen, but then fungus and bugs move in, then bigger bugs and small animals, and so on and then better plant systems. It's kind of neat.
That's dope! I can become compost! I hope my leftovers get used by a tree. Trees are cool.
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
Grass looks greener from the side than from directly above.
are you sure about that
From the side, the blades obscure the dirt. Either that, or my neighbor's grass really is greener.
okay so that would apply if you could see the dirt, but if we're just talking about a thick turf layer it seems like the top would be greener because that's where most of the reflection is going
If the grass is laying flat against the ground, I guess. But it usually just leans. Either way, this is outside the scope of my statement.
well, you're saying the grass looks less green because of the dirt, but then you're not talking about how green the grass is you're talking about seeing dirt
Wait, clover is a legume? How tiny are their peas?
average size. actually if they were any bigger it would be uncomfortable.